Nina (Natalie Portman), who lives with her Freudian nightmare of a mother in a spooky Upper West Side apartment, is a hard-working dancer cast as the lead in a revisionist production of “Swan Lake.” She is an obsessed, overly ambitious ballerina.
Thomas is her director who is handsome and evil sorcerer in Nina's imagination. He tells Nina to "Let go" and not be perfect every time. The role is actually a split identity. One part is the white Swan, which Nina is capable of doing. The other part is that of a black Swan, which is very hard to gulp by Nina.Nina starts witnessing some peculiar happenings when she met a new ballerina Lily. The relationship between two dancers is good because of Lily’s imprudence.
In keeping with the logic of “Swan Lake” her liberation takes the form of self-destruction, and she is not what she use to be before.
Once alone in the rehearsal studio, Nina looks at her multiplying mirror images and loses control of them. What follows is a crescendo of madness leading up to her opening night triumph, during all of which it becomes increasingly difficult to find the boundary between reality and fantasy.
The movie went too deep to let you understand the character and the felling Nina is having all this while. This case of Obsessive compulsive behaviour led to nothing else than own's destruction.
Nina's words, after she stabs herself and is severely bleeding, were "I felt it. Perfect. It was perfect."
This bulimia character was a much appraised one. She is both the black swan and the white, both the perfectly controlled performer and the pure creature of instinct.
Tags: hard working, perfectionist, ballerina, self destruction, hallucination, passionate, erratic, shattered, weeping, counter part
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