Last night Natalie Portman (Israeli born) won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her character Nina in Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The movie is about Nina, a ballet dancer that wins the lead in "Swan Lake" doing perfectly the role of the White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan, thanks to the pressure of her mother (Barbara Hershey), who was a great young ballarina that never reached the top, her Artistic Director (Vincent Cassel) that pressures her constantly sexualy and Lily (Mila Kunis) a new dancer that impresses the Artistic Director for her role as Black Swan.
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In terms of acting this movie deserves a 10, because all actors do a great job portraying difficult characters with different pressures and that depending on what point of view we take can look completely different.
The story has a lot of rhythm and is complicated to be bored, althought it may require some thinking to solve whats happening, it has such a good speed that you wont care, you will want to figure out whats going on and thats everything that will matter.
For me something that happens when im bored watching a movie is that I find my self constatnly looking at my watch. Well in Black Swan that didnt happen, and I think that a great sign of how entertaining the movie is.
In terms of Authenticity I think the movie portreys perfectly the pressure of the Ballet, and arts in general. Doing a great job showing from where it can come and how, from family, Directors or fellow dancers.
I would love to comment the end of the movie, because it can have 1000 different explanations, but I dont want to spoil it to anyone, so if you are interested in my opinion, leave me a comment and we can discuss it.
My rating for this movie is an 8. The things I didn't like is that sometimes you can get lost and you don't know how to interpret whats happening, so you take the risk of getting the whole story wrong.
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