BLACK SWAN
BLACK SWAN DIRECTED : DARREN ARONOFSKY RELEASED : 2010 Black Swan is a cracking psychological melodrama and an artistic masterpiece. At its centre is young ballerina Nina Sayers, played by Natalie Portman. She is beautiful, vulnerable, sexually naive and susceptible to mental illness. To play the role of a lifetime, Nina must delve deep into her own dark side. As her hallucinations and anxiety attacks escalate with her progress in rehearsal, artistic break-through fuses with nervous breakdown. This is a movie about fear of ones body, fear of being supplanted in the affections of a powerful man, love of perfection, love of dance, and perhaps most importantly of all, passionate hatred for ones mother. Nina, constantly striving for perfection, lives with her controlling mother who gave up dance to have her daughter. They live in a tiny New York City apartment. When the ballet's director decides to replace the aging prime ballerina for the new season production of "Swan ...