This movie is so good with the psychological horror and how perfection can drive us mad.

The reason she keeps seeing herself as other people and all the mirror motifs and her "becoming" the black swan is all about her developing multiple personalities from the life she's lived from her controlling mother and the stress of getting the show brings it out. Represented by her "becoming" the black swan. Also the shot of the broken ballerina music box represents her fractured personality.

"The only person standing in your way is you." Fun Fact: The script took around ten years to make it to the screen. Real Dancing Fact: Both Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman have praised choreographer Benjamin Millepied for altering the choreography enough to allow them to do most of their own dancing and to help them appear like professionals. Good Friemenies Fact: Natalie Portman revealed that director Darren Aronofsky would subtly try to pit her and Mila Kunis against each other during filming in an attempt to increase the on-screen tension between their characters. This included keeping the two actresses separated during filming and sending each of them intimidating text messages about each others performance that day. However, according to Kunis, this backfired; because they were already good friends before filming, whenever they would get wind that the other one was doing really well, they would respond in congratulatory support, not rivalry.

Nominated for 5 Oscars including Best Picture but won Natalie Portman for Best Actress

22:05 : "Oh god...a tree ?!" 🤣 you killed me with this one hahaha by the way, excellent choice of movie and great reaction !

There is always a physical therapist in each major company. The scene where the therapist had her hand in Nina’s rib cage was real. Natalie had injured herself during rehearsal and had to be treated. The director of the film said “KEEP FILMING” so he could get a real reaction from Natalie in real pain. Ballerinas are constantly getting hurt. They have to learn to live with pain. It’s a really destructive profession. See toe nails bleeding or torn off is normal in real life. But you’ve trained all of your life for ballet, so you just have to live with it.

Natalie Portman is a great actress when she does smaller, character-driven movies with a good director. When she's in big budget greenscreen heavy movies, I think she kind of phones it in.

These parts made me laugh: The Movie: Black SWAN (Nina pulls a feather out of her back) “A TREE?!” (Her feet and legs slowly transforming bird-like) “Is she turning into a mermaid?”

This movie must be paired with Darren Aronofsky's previous film, The Wrestler. They have many similarities, and were even at one part of the same story before he split them apart. Both depict the toll that each artform takes on the lead character.

I looooove this movie I didn’t fully understand it at first but, she is literally transforming from the goofy white swan to the more care free finally able to get from under her overbearing mother black swan she was literally fighting herself who she should be ,and who she is at least in my opinion it’s almost like both of her personifies are fighting to be in the spotlight. throughout the film it’s like she’s seeing the other personality she’s wearing darker clothes I also love how they show her cracking her toes and stretching my mom use to have a friend that danced and just preparing the shoes alone the broken toenails it’s amazing how much these woman endure while looking so graceful on stage❤

black swan is one of the best movies ever made it’s just too good

You also have to see Aronofsky’s other film “MOTHER!” with Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem & Michelle Pfiffer, it’s a surrealist (& very divisive not to mention subversive) nightmarish, masterpiece. 🎥🍿🙌

Her instructor was manipulating her, plain and simple. When she bit him he saw another side of her, something potentially more dark and twisted, which is what he believed would embody the black swan. He knew she was wound up and so he "shocked" her with sexual forwardness to try and force her to "crack open" the side of her that could be the black swan. But she was already psychologically fragile due her her mother's controlling nature containing her for so long, so the intense pressure plus her desire to achieve perfection gave her that final break. I go back to the joker's line in the dark knight, "madness is like gravity, all it takes is a little push." And this is always true when a person has reached a mental precipice of some sort. If you think that is wild, look up what Stanley Kubrick did to Shelley Duvall in that baseball bat scene in The Shinning. He forced her to do so many takes (127 from memory) and pushed her to the point where she was actually breaking down and dehydrated -- hence her "realistic" terror and exhaustion -- she literally was terrorized. What some will do to obtain what they believe to be "perfection" is quite disturbing. Fun reaction though, some of your questions through the film had me cracking up lol.

“In the practice scene near the beginning of the film (when Thomas taps some of the girls on the shoulder), all of the characters except Nina are wearing either all black, or some combination of black, gray, and/or white. Nina is the only character wearing all white." “Lily is always wearing black outfits, as well as black underwear to signify her as Nina's opposite, or 'Black Swan.'" “While Nina is touching herself, in the background a plush black swan can be seen. It's the only toy with a color contrasting with all the other toys." “Nina's clothes changes color throughout the film. In the beginning of the film, she's seen wearing pink and white which, in particular, symbolizes innocence, purity, and virtue. After the formal party, she wears gray and other neutral colors which symbolizes dullness, detachment, and indecision. Then, when she and Lilly go out, she starts wearing black which symbolizes maturity, rebellion, and darkness. And when her hallucinations get worse like the scene where she's being fitted for her swan costume, she's seen wearing white, gray, and black which symbolizes her confusion and loss of reality." • I love little intricate details like this. The black and/or white contrast, or the combination of both, from everything to the production design, costumes, makeup, as well as the characters themselves. Her white swan metamorphosis into the black queen, genius. The direction, performances, cinematography and editing were also fantastic. The club scene, in particular, is probably one of the best edited (and beautifully shot) scenes in cinematic history: “During the dance club sequence most of the people surrounding Nina are either visions of herself, Lily, Thomas, or other aspects of the Swan Lake ballet. The only spot you can clearly see flashes of Nina as the Black Swan on the dance floor is when the voices chanting Nina's name are playing. Although most of them are nearly impossible to pinpoint while watching the film at full speed, there are over 1,000 manipulated images in the 45-second scene." • I do believe a slow-mo video of it exists somewhere here on KZfaq. • Darren Aronofsky really knows how to bring out the best in his leading actors. Natalie Portman (in Black Swan), Mickey Rourke (in The Wrestler), Jennifer Lawrence (in mother!), and Ellen Burstyn (in Requiem for a Dream - IMO one of the greatest performances of all time) all in particular. I daresay none of these actors have been able to surpass the work they did with Aronofsky-acting wise. Although Burstyn has had a legendary career: she was Regan's mother in The Exorcist. • Everyone has their own interpretation of the ending, but I thought this was interesting to share: “While the crew was applying blood to the stab wound on Natalie Portman, she commented to director Darren Aronofsky that she was uncomfortable with the placement of the blood on her tights because it looked like a period. Aronofsky told her he intentionally placed the blood where it was to symbolize Nina becoming a woman. As a result, Portman has stated that she doesn't believe Nina dies at the end of the film. She sees it more as Nina having to kill the little girl in order to mature into a woman."

such a great classic, Natalie Portman at her best :) great psychological drama, love how they handle the multiple personality disorder in this movie :) the uncertainty they make you feel is very well done :)

I watched this in theater when it came out. I didn't understand it well then. Now that I've experienced trauma, this movie shook me to my core for my current underatanding of mental health. I pray for anyone else with such a visceral reaction like my own. I was truly disturbed by this movie. But what a fantastic performance for Natalie Portman

This is one of my favorite Natalie Portman performances too.

No idea if you'll see this but the Swan Prince she dances with is Benjamin Millepied who would later become her husband. They met on set

Natalie Portman is so amazing in this movie.

Its the same obsession with WHIPLASH. They fought for perfect performance. Practice till last breath to make it DONE!

it's def psychological horror. It's a really different concept in some ways even in that concept. which is something I really enjoy out of the horror genre more than slashers, gore, or supernatural (which is my other horror genre fave within the spiritual sup supernatural genre)

Former ballerina here- pointe shoes shouldn’t really hurt. They’re tailored to the woman’s specific feet, and there are foot coverings and tape you’re meant to wear underneath them. You also need to stretch your feet before putting them on as well. The way that the pointe shoe is designed, it allows you to stand on your toes without damage, as long as you’ve developed the strength to be in them. As for eating disorders in the ballet world, it’s been known to happen, but your instructor will get pissed if they find out you’re starving yourself. You eat too little, and you lose the strength and ability needed to perform.

YESS! Black Swan is a classic. So much to analyze after lots of viewings too

Best Actress Oscar Winning performance. I saw this twice in the theaters

I don't usually watch your reactions right after you drop them I usually wait for a couple weeks and then I binge watch them. But I got excited today and had to watch!

if you’re looking for a joker/american psycho kinda film i really recommend gone girl!

The scenen when the mom clips her nails like a crackhead gives me day nightmares

As someone with paranoid schizophrenia, this movie portrays it fairly well. It goes a little too far with the hallucinations but the visuals with changing faces and seeing figures in a room that aren't there, as well as the creepy mirror stuff and talking pictures on the wall, is all spot fucking on. When you are in full blown psychosis it's like you are in a fever dream where you lose the concept of time and you begin to question what is real and what isn't - meanwhile your brain is in constant fight or flight and oh shit you just heard a small noise in the next room that obviously means your loved ones are spies and they are currently recording you through the wall right now! You better tear your room apart looking for more bugs they might have planted but you have to be quiet because the shadow man crouched by your computer is watching you and he might not like the noise and on and on and on...

this and annhilation are my fav natalie performances

I was so psyched when I saw you reacted to this! Natalie Portman won the Oscar for this performance! She's so brilliant! I highly recommend watching "Closer" as that has her other best performance (in my opinion). Also you mentioned you planned to watch "Requiem For a Dream" and "Mother!" soon!? Please bump them up the list! RFAD in particular is a MASTERPIECE.

Omg yes please watch Mother! asap with this movie fresh on your mind. Darren is a master at the psychological thrillers.

I love this film so much. It totally terrified me

Glad to see you pushing forward! So long as you make content I’ll support it!

I'm a clumsy bastard too! 🤣 But seriously, great reaction! 🙂

Fact: the guy who dance with Natalie, the same guy the carácter Thomas Leroy play by Vincent Cassel ask if he would had sex with her is actually Natalie Portman’s Husband and also the scene where someone was giving a massage in Natalie rib, she actually got hurt and they add that part as part of the movie and Natalie broke character.

This is my favorite movie ever

Happy 2023!! Blessings and happy thoughts! 😇🙏⛲🕌🎼🎵🎻🎥

A tree??? That was hilarious

What a psychological thriller

I watched the whole movie and there’s no answer as to why he told her one girl got the part and all of a sudden without her knowledge she had the part.

This movie is a PSA against method acting

You need to react to Prefect Blue, is an anime movie, and black swan is based on this movies. This is a espectacular movie that you should watch, is kind of difficult to guess what is real and what is not.

I’ve always found perfectionists, terrifying. 🙅🏽‍♀️

It's good, but original (Perfect blue) is better in my opinion

23:50 A swan 🤷🏾‍♂️😂🦢 Feathers on her back, webbed feet, etc.

It's a parallelism about the teenager age, when you aren't longer a girl (white Swam) and you start to become into a woman (Black Swam). Loved your reaction 😊

I originally thought Mia was trying to sabotage her but I don't know by the end of the movie it just seemed like she was sabotaging herself because she was seeing things.

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Please watch whiplash now! It's also very good at covering the story of the obsessed artist just like this movie

Obsession leads to madness....

Nahhhh but why did she eat tf up at the end. She gagged them all up and bounced ✌️😜 say what u want but u can’t say she wasn’t perfect. She put the work in 👏

You need to look up Jim Carrey - Black Swan on SNL on KZfaq. Its a great skit.

FYI nobody from this movie was in American Psycho for the record

Glad you enjoyed it. You didn’t understand the film or what it was about, but that’s OK!

I would not recommend Mother, even though I enjoyed it -- super difficult to watch. Noah and The Fountain are some of Darren Aaronofsky 's more underrated films.

its my turn

You're funny😅

Her mother was a promising Ballerina and at 18 got pregnant with Nina so she tried to live her dead dream through Nina and kinda blamed Nina for ruining her career. If she couldn’t be perfect, her daughter sure will be. That’s why mom is so controlling. Nina has danced since she was 5 years old and she and her mother’s pushing her to be perfect led to her obsession. Also, for years the corps’ director, since she was so “perfect” told her he would give her a starring role one day. This pushed her harder to be even more perfect. This made her more of ice queen robot of ballet. There is technically nothing she couldn’t do. Learning to let herself go , be free and learn there is more to life than dancing is the one thing she couldn’t do but is exactly what the Black Swan needed. FYI - Swan Lake is always done with two ballerinas. One for the White Swan and one for the Black. The director’s vision was to have one dancer play both parts, which is never done. Nina couldn’t do the Black Swan (perfectly), which led to her being neurotic and paranoid that someone would steal her role away from her. The role demands that, at the end, the white Swan commits suicide for the lose of her love that the Black Swan stole away. So for her to be perfect her White-side had to die for her Black-side to be born. So that’s why she killed herself, to be perfect on both sides of her personality. Unfortunately, that was going to be a “One Time Performance.” She died happy, knowing that she proved she could be perfect in both roles.

Love this movie. You'd be amazed what people do for art. Musicians mutilate fingers, dancers mutilate toes, singers and actors mutilate emotions. It's a strange exchange, and it's an unnecessary one.

I’m sure I’ve missed it somewhere on your channel but what’s your name bro ?

I don’t think you understood the film

Saw this in the theater right before Christmas 2010 and remember loving it so much! Then, I watched it again about 2 years ago- and for some reason, I found it sooo pretentious and not good! Like, really? This chick loses her shit THAT much over ballet?! All I could think to myself was, "Get a life girl. Chill!" And I found the girl on girl sex scene to be gratuitous and tiresome. But the worst was how r*pey it all was. Just didn't age well and I found myself rolling my eyes alot. Perhaps it was more cutting edge back in 2010. Interestingly, people have similar thoughts about American Beauty and Sixteen Candles aging not so gracefully all these years later. Funny how we look at things differently as time goes on. Either way, great reaction!

Deep Schizophrenia and extreme bad perfection habits

Her mom is completely controlling and overbearing but you understand why towards the end of the movie

My favorite movie! so glad u did it. Veronica intially got the part but he changed his mind after the whole kiss/bite scene. Natalie did amazing in this movie. funfact, she actually married David, her ballet partner.

You wanna netflix and chill bro