Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Black Swan


While I saw this in theaters when it first came out, I figure I'll stick to my semi-recent trend of reviewing the Academy Award nominated movies of which I thought Black Swan was phenomenal.

I'm sure you know the overall plot for this movie but in case not I'll give a brief rundown. A ballerina is chosen to play the parts of the White Swan and then the Black Swan in play put on by her dancing troupe. The problems come when she starts to imagine that the new girl is trying to take her spot. What follows is actually a pretty dark thriller, not what some people were expecting at all I feel.

First off I'll complement the acting. Natalie Portman deserved the Best Actress award and she rightly won it. To be able to dance like that period but also act is no easy task. The supporting actors and actresses were just as good as well.

While I loved the idea of the story and believe they did a great job with it and the direction they took, and I loved the acting. I do have some problem with the movie. Mainly the pace that it went at. I mean I know it was a movie about ballerinas but I don't think I was expecting a large, and I mean large, portion of the movie to just be about the dancing and the culture around it. So that made the movie progress really slow for me, which also made the thrilling moments (her acts of craziness) sporadic throughout the movie but that may work for the movie as they were genuinely scary (or at least surprising), so in that way I guess the pace worked for the effect of the movie but not this viewer. I still say you should go see it though, great movie.

4 out of 5

*Black Swan made the top 2011 list on http://www.sundaychurchservice.org/2011/01/films-to-look-out-for-in-2011.html  *

32 comments:

ExoticBlogger said...

great movie, i enjoyed it!

Remi said...

I really can't make it through slow movies, but I can't say no to a 4/5

Icepax_Nmir said...

I've heard both opinions about this movie, some love it, others hate it...
Though I'm still curious what I think of it :p

Patres said...

I've heard all sorts of things about this one, must see it

ds said...

I really can't decide whether to see this or not. It's just that slow pace. Watching ballet over ten minutes could be hard for me.

Mostly Irrelephant said...

When I went to see it I thought I will see Natalie Portman in a nice balet uniform doing some nice things if you catch my drift. But I was not! ready for what actually happened. :D

GoGoGoViral said...

Good flick, and +followed for more.

Erika said...

I think it's totally true what they say about this one. Black Swan is the female version of Fight Club.

amBored said...

yeah saw this and have to say it was better than I expected

GreenCloud said...

Saw this yesterday and thought it was good. Good ending

Drackar said...

It's a psychological movie, far more than anything else, to my mind.

Stromatose said...

wait this isnt some wierd dancing chick flick? awesome. ill have to go take a look at it

Chris said...

I can't believe I haven't seen it yet! Now I want to see it more...

Danny Murphy said...

Its worth watching

Pankratos said...

I've watched this movie and I think it should receive more Oscars.

Vague Raconteur said...

Great film in terms of psychological thrillers. Girlfriend didn't get it though lol

Kamchatka said...

I've definitely gotta check out this movie! Natalie Portman is amazing

King Elysium said...

I've never seen it

G said...

A ballerina friend of mine put me off it...but I might give it a watch when it shows up on the NG

mac-and-me said...

gonna watch it next weekend

MuteMath Fan (& news junkie too!) said...

Thanks for the review! I still need to see it, and soon!

Jay said...

i have to watch this sometime, thanks for the review. :)

Xuian said...

brilliant film, everything this guy puts out is amazing. Pi, Requiem for a dream and the Fountain are all great as well!

cool_cicler said...

Nice review, have too see this flick man.

Blogasaurus Rex said...

I have been dying to see this movie, and now I definitely shall.

Tom said...

I think I'll rent it when it comes out on Netflix. Thanks for the review!

Fishy Corporation said...

Just saw it and its awesome, you gotta see it!

Aaron M. Gipson said...

It's good to see Natalie recovering from our breakup so well. She took it kinda hard for a while...

I agree this was a great film!

lacrosseman said...

great movie, one of the best this year

Larkhill said...

i saw this movie only cause i was dragged into it by my gf and i gotta say, it was by far one of themost overratted flicks of the year.

Michael said...

A friend of mine, who's done professional dance for about 3 years, said it was a pretty good interpretation of what the culture of dance is. Haven't seen it yet, but plan too!

Skeng said...

I have to say I didn't enjoy it as much. I thought that it only developed her character and that the other ones were too stereotypical:
Mother living through her daughter because her life was ruined
Dancing instructor turns out to be a creepy guy who sleeps with his dancers
Older dancer is replaced and can't take it

The dancing was very good, shame Natalie Portman didn't do it all herself.

Still a good film but not as amazing as it was hyped up to be. For me at least

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