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      • Natalie Portman. 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.”
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  2. I watched the 2010 film the Black Swan with Natalie Portman, and it was the best drama I've ever seen. I'm also a huge fan of Shakespeare's tragedies (Othello, R+J, Hamlet, Macbeth etc.). Does anyone have any recommendations for any dark dramas that fit what I'm looking for?

  3. Dec 1, 2010 · Darren Aronofskys “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.”

    • 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...

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    • Natalie Portman
  4. Jul 8, 2022 · Black Swan Ending, Explained. For the lovers of fairy tales, ‘Swan Lake’ plays like a dream. The grace of ballet and the heartbreaking story of Odette makes for an overwhelming experience, when done right. For a ballet dancer, it is one of the dream roles, and also, one of the most challenging ones. Because it is not just the White Swan ...

  5. Apr 18, 2024 · Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky from a screenplay by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz, based on a story by Heinz. The film received five nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, with Portman winning Best Actress; it also received four nominations at the ...

  6. Black Swan received positive reviews from critics upon release, with praise toward Aronofsky's direction and the performances of Portman, Kunis and Hershey. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 85% based on 318 reviews, and an average rating of 8.20/10.

  7. Apr 1, 2011 · It may play out as a twisted docu-drama of an obsessive ballet dancer, caught up in a tale which is similar in structure to the very play that she is performing in, but, at its core, Black Swan is a dark melodrama, a haunting, somewhat surreal psychological horror which will both baffle you with its seamless integration of illusions and reality ...

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