As far as I'm concerned, she played four roles into perfection. The perfectionist but timid, the rebel-wannabe, the white swan and the black swan.
From The Wrestler to Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky continues his winning ways with similar self-destructive characters aiming for perfections. It'll be interesting to see what he does with The Wolverine next year. If going with this trend, I think the sequel to the disappointing X-Men Origins will be a much, much better film with an intriguing storyline.
But back to this particular swan, it's interesting to see what the human psyche when striving for perfection will do to itself. Bridging fantasy and reality, it took the audience along for an incredible ride in the dark corners of the human mind.
Mila Kunis in a role of her lifetime did brilliant under Aronofsky direction. She has shed all the That 70's Show juvenile and has become a mature and charismatic actress, with her knack for humour still very much intact. Vincent Cassel gave his character the right amount of mystery but never a machismo even though he may seemed appear that way when pushing his student. And Winona Ryder had such a horrifying scene that it'll stay stuck with me for a long time.
But mixing fantasy in a fictional drama there were little issues that were left to interpretations and that sometimes proves to be an easy way out to overlooked laziness for creating dramatic effects. What's with the "breaking" of her legs? Why only her shoulders had tiny bumps. Why were her toes stuck together instead of say, webbed? Nevertheless, these are tiny issues that could be left as they were or however way you want to interpret them.
In the end I think all credit has to go to Aronofsky for creating such a moving art in moving artistry. And the soundtrack complimented the movie to perfection too.
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