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For Black Swan, I think it's indulgent because of its shameless melodrama. The film is essentially black and white to (almost unnecessarily) emphasize the themes of black and white (good and evil, innocent and sexual, etc.).
Dec 1, 2010 · Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity, gloriously and darkly absurd. It centers on a performance by Natalie Portman that is nothing short of heroic, and mirrors the conflict of good and evil in Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake.”
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky 2010) tells the story of Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), a ballerina who dreams of dancing the Swan Queen in Swan Lake. When she wins the lead role, Nina slowly begins losing her mind, in a curious and intense mix of melodrama and horror.
This research paper considers how Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2011) engages with and revises the melodrama mode through its incorporation of elements from the “woman’s film,” the paranoid female gothic, and the maternal melodrama genres.
- Vanessa Chen
- What Is 'Black Swan' About?
- ‘Black Swan’ Is A Dark Psychological Horror Dressed Up in A Tutu
- Nina's Obsession Starts to Manifest in Body Horror
- How Does 'Black Swan' End?
- What Is The Meaning Behind 'Black Swan's Ending?
The film revolves around Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), a ballerina in the New York City ballet company who desperately wants both starring roles in the company's opening season performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Faced with pressure from herself as well as her overprotective mother (Barbara Hershey), she pushes her body to the brink to achieve...
On the surface, Black Swan can seem like a drama about the cutthroat world of ballet. However, to reduce it to such simple terms would be doing the film a great disservice. The psychological horror film is a master class in crafting character-based tension and dread, with each scene building to a crescendo as captivating as it is horrifying. Direct...
The night before she is set to perform, Nina becomes convinced that Lily is going to take her place. Her paranoia and mental strain cause her to hallucinate that she's physically turning into the role of Odile, the Black Swan, complete with red eyes and black feathers protruding from bird-like skin. But her confidence and passion for the roles of O...
Nina hides Lily's body and readies herself to go back on stage, but she is shocked and confused to find Lily standing in the doorway — alive. After all, the remnants of the broken mirror are still present, but Lily isn't injured. It's here that we see that the glass shard from their fight isn't protruding from Lily like we initially saw through Nin...
Whichever side you fall on, the ending raises plenty of other questions. After all, with Nina as an incredibly unreliable narrator, we have to wonder what other scenes, encounters, and conversations in the film were actually her hallucinations. For example, just how much of Nina's relationship with Lily was a product of her psychosis? Judging by Li...
- Darren Aronofsky
- 3 min
- Natalie Portman
Black Swan: Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey. Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom.
Dec 30, 2010 · That’s a great taking-off point for a dance melodrama, but as Nina starts to become both victimized and liberated by her buried fantasies, Black Swan turns out to be nothing more (or less) than a...
