The ballet "Swan Lake" by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser tells the story of the Swan Queen Odette, an enchanted princess who can be freed only by the love of her curse. It is based on a fairy tale, how could it be otherwise, you meet these set pieces (As the Beast in La Belle et la Bete or the Grimms' Frog Prince) but through the centuries. That love occurs in "Swan Lake" in the form of Prince Siegfried, but is undermined when the overheard responsible for the curse magician Rotbart the meeting of Siegfried and Odette, and begins to intervene. Rotbart is subsequently as a Baron, creating a doppelganger named Odile for Odette, Siegfried falls then.
composed by Tchaikovsky's ballet of 1875/1876 is one of the best known in his field, the character of the Swan Queen because of their different choreography for Odette and Odile also one of the most challenging and most exhausting roles in classical ballet. A stressful world, therefore, work out in which the performers for entertainment purposes and art physically, what the audience does not always properly assessed. Not unlike the wrestling, which is considered battle-ready, but the authenticity of the drives because many of its representatives to the physical limit. Director Darren Aronofsky dedicated to both worlds and now delivers with Black Swan a counter-proposal to last year's The Wrestler from.
In Center of Black Swan is the young ballet dancer Nina (Natalie Portman) - a dangerous and fragile perfectionist, by her mother and ex-ballerina Erica (Barbara Hershey) is chosen to have the career that Erica once because of her pregnancy has been denied. Both women live in a controlled world, dependent on each other, the mother of the daughter, the daughter of the mother. As in Nina's ballet company, the Prima Ballerina Beth Macintyre (Winona Ryder) is sent by the chief choreographer Thomas (Vincent Cassel) in the professional wilderness, Nina sets everything in the lead role in Thomas' new production obtain from "Swan Lake". Their fear of failure and paranoia make again soon for a mise en abyme.
While the eternal girl Nina dancing the white swan perfect, with its seductive doppelganger Odile, the mentally battered bulimic, however, has problems. It helps even less that Lily (Mila Kunis), a burgeoning sex appeal before extroversion and new to the ballet dancer encounters. With progressive duration of a hand, Nina's position rises within the company, the other as well as their uncertainty. In one scene, stretch and stretch all the ballerinas, while Thomas walks through their ranks and some of them tapping - not just Nina. Their tension jumps nearly from the screen, its subsequent relief when she learns that those auditioning must have not been touched, remains on the other hand almost imperceptibly.
War "Swan Lake" a constantly re-interpretable ballet, it is this also Aronofsky. Said Siegfried plays in Black Swan does not matter, but the film asks what would happen if the Prince of Odile was deceived, but Odette. Accordingly, blurred reinforced for their perceptions of Lily and Nina herself, or her own seductive doppelganger - her black swan. What is true and what is only imagined, including the blurring in the run much rumored sex scene between the two actresses, while perhaps the main character, but not for the audience. For although the Aronofsky's fifth film as a psychological drama and / or ballet ingratiate horror, he can seldom really build tension.
Thus, the film captures the event viewer, there is no history of access to their figures. Lily Sun throughout is a chimera, it is not, however, Thomas fluctuates between calculated and cold-heartedness ass perfectionist or Beth is basically giving away totally. is an understanding of the characters Black Swan entirely on what it probably the most different from The Wrestler, his brother in spirit. Here and there the camera will follow like the main character in the back, giving her hope, only to have them come back shortly to stumble. The failure of Randy the Ram on the transience of his fame (as seen here it is most similar to Beth), Nina threatens to be the load of her mother's expectations to break.
gnawed at his previous job at eating away at Randy's physique, your career opportunities including Nina's psyche. This supposed loss of identity as a mise en abyme is indeed interesting for long stretches, when Nina and Lily as a character counter-concepts to each other - and what Nina also concerned for one another - to be designed. But Aronofsky is lost after the second act too much in the sequence of this psychological game, and in its intensity. Because this is expressed primarily by the use of CGI gimmicks that are not only unnecessary but also turn out to be disturbing. remains grounded by the establishment of the action at the beginning Thus, in the end not much left when Black Swan takes in the third act, the transformation from the psychodrama of the ballet horror.
This year Black Swan stormy applause was given at the 67th Venice Film Festival, the place where four years ago Darren Aronofsky's masterpiece, The Fountain was booed. An experience that will hang at the New Yorker to have been torn and wounds seems. Of visual gimmicks, he took his then in The Wrestler who was coming along amazingly straight and consistent. Although at that time was in recognition of the Academy, for his well-acclaimed recent film, she could now stand, however, into the house. The fact that the 41-year-old American on since The Wrestler has leaves, on the other hand are not saying, but both films (thriller elements replace character depth) too similar to make progress visible.
way, Darren Aronofsky and the Swan Queen look like probably more than they believe that if the esteemed by critics last The Wrestler and Black Swan with the seductive doppelganger be equated to Aronofsky's artistic value, ambitious and often underrated predecessor be forgotten. But the real beauty is below the outside sometimes as ugly manner deemed so do Aronofsky's tale pioneer Prince Siegfried same should, by resisting the temptation (soon, he directed the second part of Wolverine franchise) and back to His eternal and true love around. A crucial clue he has given in Black Swan itself: The only person standing in your way is you .
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