Black Swan Reviews

Very Very good movie!!!!I I LIKE IT SO MUCH!!!!!!!!

Too weird for my taste, great acting though

It grips you and never lets go. Truly spectacular to watch. Aronofsky managed to turn some simple drama at a ballet company into something of 10 times the magnitude. Story, acting, emotion, it's all there. I did not know Natalie Portman could be such a fantastic actress until I witnessed her performance in Black Swan. She really deserved the Best Actress Oscar. 1 point off for minor mistakes. Usually, when I watch movies alone I don't have much of a physical reaction. I did with this one. Also, I have begun to enjoy artistic films in the past year and this movie only served to augment that enjoyment. This is not one to miss. It's crazy. Watched and written 05/18/2013.

How far will some one go to achieve perfection, insofar as they truly desire it? Just how much does it take to find ones self within the confines of a psychotic break? And when you are there, what is reality, what is delusion; and can it send us over the edge of life's cliff?

Natalie Portman delivers a mind-bending, and career defining performance in this seemingly average drama that spirals into a dark psychological thriller.

Hauntingly beautiful and emotionally powerful.

Black Swan will make you lose your mind!!

Everyone knows the motto "Practise makes perfect" and who doesn't want to be perfect. You can be a perfectionist if you try hard but is that all it takes?? Perhaps that's not the end of the story, ever heard of another phase "every action has a consequence"?? Black Swan will have you quoting these famous quotes with a whole new meaning again.

A prestigious ballet company in New York was looking for its new lead ballerina after its director , Thomas Leroy portrayed by Vincent Cassel forced his former lead, Beth Macintyre portrayed by Winona Ryder into retirement. There were many young and eager ballerinas in the company who all wanted to dance the "Swan Queen "but only one could be chosen.

That's how the drama begins, with tens of ballerinas auditioning with the hopes of getting the lead role. Beautiful and innocent as she is, Nina Sayers ( Natalie Portman) is perfect for the fragile and melancholic White Swan but lacks passion and ardor to dance her dark and nefarious twin, Black Swan. That said, Thomas Leroy sees the earnestness and unflinching desire within her and gives her the role.

Constantly under the pressure and the fear of losing her role to Lily (Mila Kunis) , she starts being demented and begins seeing delusions. As Nina is perfect for the White Swan, Lily is perfect for the Black Swan with bold and amorous personality. Before long, Nina is lost between reality and her conscious. / She falls through the cracks between her conscious and reality.

I have to pay my tribute to Natalie Portman who portrayed the young and insecure Nina Sayers wonderfully. Vincent Cassel did a terrific job in playing the demanding and seductive director Thomas Leroy. Lily's role was charming and mysterious with a strange pull to her character which Mila Kunis was able to channel favorably well. The rest of the cast were not that remarkably compared to the three but did a fairly adequate job. I am sure if they had been given more importance, they'd be able to shine just as brightly as the leads.

The movie's directing had been obscured in some bits, perhaps it had been more emotionally based then script based therefore, some parts had used facial expressions instead of words. Nevertheless, no one can disagree that the movie was a masterpiece and a work of art.

In this fast-paced world and competitive city, it's not easy to excel. Is it worth it to lose your sanity for perfection?? Everyone should do their best to reach their own dreams, however one should always remember to take good care of one's own health. This movie conveys an important reminder for people who often neglect their health for their career and stress themselves physically and mentally.

Although the movie had been aspiring, I don't recommend it to young teenagers and children under 18 like myself. It has strong sexual contents and inappropriate languages and might have adverse effect on young people's view of sex and encourage the improper use of languages. This movie will be totally delicious for adults to devour and will have them hungry for more.

So the total rating I give " Black Swan " is 4 out of 5 stars.

Aronofsky crafts an uncompromising fairy tale of fluidity, camp, intensity, and fervor, making its pleasures very akin to ballet. It refuses to be classified as one thing and goes for entertaining thematic and aesthetic extremes when playing it safe would've resulted in a duller movie. For all its narrative tricks and freudian imagery, this is quite simply a fable about an artist's price for perfection. Natalie Portman gives the performance of her career, and the great supporting cast gets plenty to chew on. Whether you fully embrace the movie or not, "Black Swan's" psychological thrills will linger in the mind long after the end credits. Its third act is as glorious, insane, and as fitting a finale as one could imagine for this material. It felt like a crescendo to a great and eclectic orchestral piece.

Wow. Amazing. Makes The Wrestler look like a trip to your local park. Slow and relaxing. This is fast paced twist ridden brilliance from one of the best directors around. Nat Portman is perfect in her role as well. Enjoyed every second.

Aronofsky's Giallo inflected thriller is an impressive film that cements his status as one of the best film-makers of the past ten years.

Black Swan is very dark, very gripping and powerful. I was stressed watching it from the beginning till the end, and I was overwhelmed for long after that. But it was totally worth the stress. It's one of those movies that you don't get the pleasure at all while watching but appreciate the experience nevertheless.

I think what's really good about it is how it takes you into the mind of Nina, the subject of the film, and make you feel for yourself how her passions conflict and feel the overwhelming stress that she has to bear in order to be "perfect".

Brilliant! So dark, yet so elegant. This was WAY more intense than I had anticipated. I should have known better coming from Aronofsky. Natalie Portman gives one heck of a performance. Mila Kunis also does a very fine job. Wow, outstanding movie to say the least. My favorite film of Aronofsky's so far.

Cinematically well-produced and an amazing performance from an underrated actress. However, Arfonsky seems unable to settle on one theme throughout the movie and vacillates between forced metaphors and a beautiful story about the nature of art.

It was... perfect. Well, not quite. Featuring incredible performances by the entire cast--especially Portman-- beautiful visuals, and a hauntingly gripping storyline, Black Swan certainly delivers.

A mess of a movie here. The only redeeming factor is Winona Ryder's brief but chilling performance. Portman is very uneven as the lead in this boring tale of psychosis and ballet.

One of the best thrillers I've ever seen and I'd say it was certainly the best of 2010. Black Swan is a must see that will leave you satisfied if you are wanting to see a good psychological thriller.

There's a lot of brilliance in this movie, but the biggest stroke of genius is the ambiguity. I don't care how many times you re-watch it, you are never going to able to definitively say which parts are 'real' and which parts of it exist solely inside poor Nina's head. The first time you watch, the twists keep you reeling, and all the rest of the time's you watch, you'll just keep trying to figure out: is that real, or part of the delusion?

Most of the movie was unimpressive. The last sixth of it however, was pretty amazing. That's where you see Natalie Portman being impressive. I really didn't buy the naive virginal act from her. I think she's much better when she's playing jaded. And her acting towards the end was fabulous. The rest of the movie was really nothing I haven't seen before.

Darren Aranofsky is easily becoming one of my favs .... strong content ... riveting screenplay ... stunning portrayal of chars ... and spine chilling direction and acting ... nails it ...

Darren Aronofsky has got to be one of our greatest filmmakers, alongside Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg. Aronofsky tackles ballet in this dark retelling of the Tchaikovsky play Swan Lake. Aronofsky has noted that this film can be viewed as a companion piece to his film The Wrestler. This can be accurate since both films focus heavily on different kinds of art. The Wrestler focuses on wrestling and this film focuses on ballet. Natalie Portman delivers a terrific performance as a ballet dancer who fights to get the lead role in a new version of Swan Lake. Mila Kunis gives a terrific supporting performance as her double, as well as Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey. This film is absolutely intense and disturbing, while Aronofsky gives a mind blowing film. Certain scenes will definitely disturb viewers, while the film also feels like a Roman Polanski film at times. Job well done Aronofsky, or more importantly bravo!

Good and elegant movie with Portman in one of her best performances. It's been a while since I was waiting for such a nice movie about dance and music. It's not only the use of classical music and a non-banal description of the extremely competitive dancers world that make this movie enjoyable, but also the idea to describe a mental illness through a ballet and its characters.