Black Swan is the story of a ballet dancer (Natalie Portman) who stops eating and starts seeing things. A cautionary tale.
Black Swan is the story of a ballet dancer (Natalie Portman) who stops eating and starts seeing things. A cautionary tale.
First of all, director Darren Aronofsky. How cool is it when someone’s last name partially rhymes with their first? He gets weird. He loves to get weird. Why? And not exactly cool weird, not that it’s not visually fantastic. He likes to get all confusing weird.
You know what was cool? In Memento, at the end, when the final piece is put in there, and everything fell into place. And you’re like – oh, cool! Because of that last bit of information, everything else makes sense.
In Black Swan, you get that last bit of information, and you’re like ‘what the eff—so what does that mean, and that and that and that— ” Shit stopped making sense.
Psychological thriller? Really, they get to call it that? Not that it was boring. Natalie Portman is certainly engaging. Mila Kunis was great. At one point I found myself chanting “More Mila Kunis.” Not because she’s a better actress, but because she was a more interesting character. In a way, that was the point. But in another way, Portman had to play a super frail whiny chick for most of the film. And there were many “thriller” moments that evoked more of a “who cares” response from this reviewer.
Oh my god, I’ve never written “this reviewer” before. Obnoxious.
My friend Jesse loved it. LOVED! So, it can’t be all bad. And it wasn’t. It was just—I just hate when a movie tries to be ssssooooo “out there” and “interesting” that the story doesn’t connect. I’m talking to you, The Fountain. God bless Aronofsky for using film as the visual medium that it is. His movies can be really trippy to watch. But movies are story-telling vehicles as well. Let’s do more of that, D-Ron.
Good date movie? Yes, if you’re gay. And specifically if you’re gay and on a date with Jesse. He loved it, I think you’d have a great time. Or, apparently, it’s a good outing if you’re a young girl on a girl hang. There were some giggly chicks in my theater who excitedly went through “ooh, didn’t you love that, did you get it, you see, really when you thought it was that, it was really this….” They seemed to have a good time.
–Laura House
