Review: Black Swan is going to be one of those movies that you might want to go back to several times but you’ll be glad if you do because it is one of the best movies ever. You’ll enjoy it the first time but you will want to go back and watch it a second time at least so that you can pick up on all of the thematic undertones.
There is lots of symbolism and metaphors that might elude you the first time you watch it. Swan has great cinematography and fabulous musical score and the actors put on a great performance. It is hard not to get lost in the story it is directed so well. If you let yourself just sit back and enjoy it you might forget that it will be one of the top movies you see this year. Black Swan is kind of a re-telling of Swan Lake but in a different and more modern way.
There are two very different ballerinas but they both want the same thing – their shot at stardom. For them that means the role of the White Swan and the Black Swan in Swan Lake. Nina is the ballerina that has been training for this all of her life. She is totally focused and her life has been set up so that she can focus on nothing but become a prima ballerina. Perfection is her goal but that is what she does not realize – that this role is not about perfection. Lily, the other ballerina who wants the role knows nothing about perfection but she knows about darkness and she lets her life follow her passions. The girls become friends – or are they enemies? Great movies like this deserve to be watched more than once.

• Actors
• • Natalie Portman
  • Mila Kunis
  • Vincent Cassel