Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
All the talk about Black Swan on my
Top 5 Directors thread made me wanna rewatch it, and surprisingly (or not) I liked it even more.
I am not a ballet dancer, but as a singer, I also live to the stage, to that moment of unmeasurable happiness - the perfection. Of course a search like that has to change you, has to make all the rest unimportant and suddenly you and your art are the only things that matter! Wanna know why opera singers or ballet dancers or any performing artist are usually looked at like egocentric divas? Because that's the first defence against the world when you actually live for something like this!
Aronofsky portrays it beautifully: the pressure of dozens of people believing they know better, the exhausting rehearsals, the mad tutors, the parents and friends trying to understand what we think is not understandable... All this exists but it's incredibly exagerated by our own mind: in reality, the people are not that eager to take our place, the tutors only want to help us and our parents and friends understand us more than we think.
I watched this for the first time before knowing what it feels like to have this on my mind, but now, some years later I actually can relate to it!
Black Swan is a hyperbole of the perfoming arts world, a masterpiece by Aronofsky. Of course that when you have Tchaikovsky's music and Mila Kunis (those 2 have to be among my Top 10 of favourite things in the world) it's impossible to make a bad movie! Nevertheless, I bow before you, Darren!
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