Black Swan
Mass Communication – Assignment – BLACK SWAN
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Release Date: December 3, 2010 (Limited) On DVD: March 29, 2011 Genre: Suspense, Drama Director: Darren Aronofsky Writer: Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Sebastian Stan, Kristina Anapau Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures Official site: blackswan2010.com Running Time: 103 minutes MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language and some drug use.
Introduction
This movie is about two different characters namely Black swan and the white swan. The Black swan symbolizes the evil tamed side of humans whereas the white swan symbolizes the untamed and the fragile side of humans. In the movie she repeats these words "I felt it, Perfect, It was perfect”
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 in tandem with her progress in rehearsal, artistic breakthrough fuses with nervous breakdown. This is a movie about fear of penetration, fear of your 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 and overwhelming hatred of your mother. Portman has decisively moved out of the ugly duckling phase of her career with this tremendous performance as Nina, a hardworking corps member of a New York City ballet company who has low-level dieting and self-harm issues more or less under control. She lives with her difficult mother – an impressive and satisfyingly nasty performance from Barbara Hershey – who abandoned her own stagnant ballet career on being impregnated by some heartless, mercurial mogul or other, and channelled her rage and disappointment into coaching the resulting
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Release Date: December 3, 2010 (Limited) On DVD: March 29, 2011 Genre: Suspense, Drama Director: Darren Aronofsky Writer: Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Sebastian Stan, Kristina Anapau Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures Official site: blackswan2010.com Running Time: 103 minutes MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language and some drug use.
Introduction
This movie is about two different characters namely Black swan and the white swan. The Black swan symbolizes the evil tamed side of humans whereas the white swan symbolizes the untamed and the fragile side of humans. In the movie she repeats these words "I felt it, Perfect, It was perfect”
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 in tandem with her progress in rehearsal, artistic breakthrough fuses with nervous breakdown. This is a movie about fear of penetration, fear of your 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 and overwhelming hatred of your mother. Portman has decisively moved out of the ugly duckling phase of her career with this tremendous performance as Nina, a hardworking corps member of a New York City ballet company who has low-level dieting and self-harm issues more or less under control. She lives with her difficult mother – an impressive and satisfyingly nasty performance from Barbara Hershey – who abandoned her own stagnant ballet career on being impregnated by some heartless, mercurial mogul or other, and channelled her rage and disappointment into coaching the resulting