Fig one - Black Swan Poster
Black swan review
The black swan directed by Darren Aronofsky, is about a
young girl called Nina who is a ballerina and has always wanted to play the
main part in the play “swan lake” and finally gets her chance but at a cost.
“But to master the
role, Nina must perform as both the rigid and timid White Swan and the
unbridled and passionate evil twin, the Black Swan”. (MATT NEAL 6th
February 2011). Nina pushes herself to the limit of perfection throughout the
film but lacks passion of lust in her performances which is noticed by her
director and he begins to flirt with. Getting more progressively more vigorous with
her by rubbing her sexually or forcing a kiss upon her, she refuses him and he
tells her to have sexual encounters or masturbate to show feeling in her
performance.
Fig Two - Scene from Black Swan
“The camera lurches,
leaps, and pirouettes; in some scenes, it feels as if it's being tossed around
the stage along with Portman”. (J.Hoberman, December 1st 2010).
Camera angle shots in the film make the viewing claustrophobic, through the
film there is never a decent view of the scene its always close to the actors
also following Nina from behind never getting a clear view where she’s heading.
“psycho-melodrama is a
glittering, crackling, outrageously pick-able scab of a film”.(Peter
Bradshaw, Thursday 20th January 2011) physiology
plays a big part in the film, throughout the film Nina keeps seeing her
face on other people this is a sign of death coming, her mum is a very
possessive woman controlling every think Nina does, this is mainly because Nina
is living her mums dreams as her mum gave up her dreams to have Nina. Yet at
moments her mum seems to want to ruin her daughter by buying a massive cake and
trying to serve a big slice to Nina even though they both know Nina can’t eat
much because she has to maintain her figure for ballet.
Illustration
Bibliography
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/20/black-swan-review
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