Review of Black Swan (2010) by Michelle P — 17 Aug 2018

Darren Aronofsky is probably one of the best directors working today. He has made masterpieces, good movies, and not so good movies. But I think Black Swan is his best film, right next to Requiem For A Dream.

Let's talk about Black Swan today, and I'll try not to spoil much. Black swan stars Natalie Portman, and she won an oscar for playing the character Nina Sayers in this movie. She completely deserved it because she did things in this movie that just made me say "woah".

That's all I'm going to say about the absurd things she did in this movies, and she was amazing, probably her best performance. The conflict that Natalie Portman's character deals with is starring in a ballet performance and she becomes obsessed with this role.

I won't tell you what happens to her in this movie to be spoiler free, but some stuff goes down. This movie even scared me at times. Her ballet director is kind of a creep but he completely cares about the performance and Natalie Portman's health and well being.

She also has competition for this leading part and some stuff happens with that as well. Mila Kunis was also in this movie, and she actually acted really well. I don't really take her seriously as an actor, but she was really good in this movie.

The ending is yet thrilling and terrifying, and the last shot in the movies says so much with so little. The script has a very good narrative and structure, and I don't think this movie gets enough praise for that.

This movie definitely deserves my perfect score. 5/5.