Natalie Portman’s performance in The Black Swan was a true expression of art colliding with life. She definitely should receive an Oscar for this amazing performance. The Black Swan brings about perfections and fears, joys and pains, desires versus dreams, sexuality versus pleasure, physical images versus mental capacities, and life versus death. Natalie Portman’s character Nina was a timid, shy, yet talented and graceful ballerina. She has spent her life being the most perfect ballerina. She lives, breaths, eats, and sleeps every move of dance.
Her obsession of being the perfect dancer caused her to have tunnel vision about life and the balance that it should bring. She, heighten by the failed dreams of her mother, functioned in a robotic state that initiated anxiety when she received the roll of her life. When Nina was selected to be the Swan Queen for the Dance Company’s version of Swan Lake, she was able to flawlessly mimic the role of the White Swan but struggled to connect with the dark side of the Black Swan. Her quest to connect with the Black Swan took Nina through various mental roller coasters that eventually started to play out in real life. Many of these mental roller coasters were thoughts, ideas, and/or passions that she wanted to experience for herself, but were too timid to do so. However, after she allowed the demands of the Black Swan to overshadow her cautious life; she was able to put on the performance of a lifetime.
This is a must see movie. I loved it to pieces and I stand to give Natalie Portman a great applause for such an amazing performance.
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