Black Swan (2010)

Electric, electric, electric! Truly a fantastic achievement in film! Just finished watching it, literally as I speak the credits roll. It's a perfect film, truly a perfect film - length-wise, emotions-wise, detail-wise, script-wise and casting-wise. Fantastic direction and focus throughout the film, felt a little bit like inception.

Absorbing, every single minute was absorbing, few experiences with film like this! Every single moment was absorbing!

The content does warrant some sort of comment; the most powerful message is the nature of art. How the best artists live and breathe their art, they are obsessed with their art, it consumes them. Natalie was outstanding here, perfect balance throughout the film. She played the frigid white Swan just as well as she played the seductive and  expressive Black Swan! Her performance was genuine and profound, lightyears above any other performance in the film, and lightyears away from leading actresses in the last few years.

This is a film that is REALLY worth it's hype. Well done to them! Favourite movie in such a long time! Do wish there was a bit more ballet though, I trained for 17 years as a dancer in Moscow so I really appreciated those aspects of the film. Perhaps that's my only problem, not enough dancing. When they did dance though, the expressiveness and the creativity of the routines were some of the film's strongest assets.

It's a psychological thriller, don't think many expected such an experience, I know I didn't! The best scene other than the lesbian sex scene, has to be where Natalie comes on stage in the second act of Swan Lake, really strong performance! So convincing, so raw, so chilling! It's a great film throughout but perhaps the last 15 minutes or so are where it REALLY hits it's stride!

Natalie Portman is a star! This film is genius! Bravo!