We saw Black Swan last night. Natalie Portman clinched the well deserved Golden Globe award, again last night.
It is a movie that lets you in the dark recesses of the obssessed, possesed mind of a Ballet artist; obsessed to achieve perfection and possessed by paranoia which ultimately becomes ballerina's undoing.
Natalie's performance as a good, sensitive unworldly ballerina is beyond reproach. She projected fear, anger, pain, care and resolve as and when appropriate. Barbara Hershey as a mother who lives through the daughter's dream has acted well. Mila Kunis as a faux rival and Vincente Cassel as the choreogrpher are less convincing; perhaps because they were parts of heroine's "paranoia".
First half hour and some intermittant footages seem to have been shot by hand-held cameras which made you almost dizzy. Shooting with hand-held camera, I have found to be common in many movies of last few years; it was blatant in Constant Gardner.
The costume for the Black Swan was beautiful as well as realistic; make-up of Portman throughout the movie supported the mood of the scene.
Movie is worth watching once.
It is a movie that lets you in the dark recesses of the obssessed, possesed mind of a Ballet artist; obsessed to achieve perfection and possessed by paranoia which ultimately becomes ballerina's undoing.
Natalie's performance as a good, sensitive unworldly ballerina is beyond reproach. She projected fear, anger, pain, care and resolve as and when appropriate. Barbara Hershey as a mother who lives through the daughter's dream has acted well. Mila Kunis as a faux rival and Vincente Cassel as the choreogrpher are less convincing; perhaps because they were parts of heroine's "paranoia".
First half hour and some intermittant footages seem to have been shot by hand-held cameras which made you almost dizzy. Shooting with hand-held camera, I have found to be common in many movies of last few years; it was blatant in Constant Gardner.
The costume for the Black Swan was beautiful as well as realistic; make-up of Portman throughout the movie supported the mood of the scene.
Movie is worth watching once.
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