I guess I can see how some people found Black Swan too over the top... it was outrageous, but I completely and utterly enjoyed the ride. It's kind of like a female version of Fight Club—something that delves into and picks apart (sometimes literally... ouch) our ideas of femininity the way Fight Club poked around in mens' psyches. Ballet is pretty much the perfect vehicle for it, since it's where women have to starve themselves, torture their bodies and never get old in order to succeed. And that's not even counting the nasty and psychotic storylines most classical ballets have.
I loved the way Darren Aronofsky borrowed from Polanski, Cronenberg and Hitchcock, loved all the mirrors and the creepy subway tunnels and the scary bunnies and the way the faces switched back and forth. Awesome, and Natalie Portman deserves the Oscar which she will presumably get.
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