After making a movie set in the collegial, warm world of pro wrestling, Aronofsky has veered into the world of dark blood sports that is ballet. This movie starts innocently enough. Like any other dance or sports movie, there are people putting in huge efforts in a competitive arena where only the few can win. it looks like it might just be the prototypical story of an artist's travails. Somewhere in the middle it becomes something else entirely. Suffice it to say, a woman in the audience actually screamed at one point. It becomes very tense indeed. It's kind of creaky melodrama, but boy, is it good creaky melodrama. And Natalie Portman shows as much commitment in her way as Micky Rourke did in The Wrestler.
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Topic - Black Swan - tunenut 12:01:39 12/13/10 (13)
- looks like drama queen chick flick territory any way you slice it NT - Jazz Inmate 20:18:37 12/13/10 (8)
- Obama should issue an Executive Order prohibiting Portman from acting - Victor Khomenko 06:16:58 12/14/10 (7)
- "...she would probably make a nice secretary." - rditmars 13:27:05 12/15/10 (3)
- "This one's for 'V for Vendetta' (WHACK!); this one - tinear 08:32:48 12/16/10 (0)
- Now that was a GOOD movie. * - mr grits 14:17:43 12/15/10 (1)
- Loved the scene where he opened her belly with a letter knife... - Victor Khomenko 14:32:05 12/15/10 (0)
- I'd rather be water-boarded than watch a Portman film. nt - tinear 17:29:04 12/14/10 (0)
- Someone must have beat him to it. Didn't you see the Star Wars prequels? - Dalton 13:50:45 12/14/10 (1)
- Nobody is guilty of acting in those prequels. * - mr grits 19:51:46 12/14/10 (0)
- RE: Black Swan - mr grits 16:02:08 12/13/10 (3)
- it's opening wide this weekend - tunenut 18:27:07 12/13/10 (2)
- I'll keep my fingers crossed.....disappointed "Fair Game" didn't make it. * - mr grits 18:31:48 12/13/10 (1)
- Are you being disingenuous? "Fair Game" is the Valerie Plame saga. A Nixon-like - tinear 08:35:41 12/15/10 (0)