Review of the Movie Black Swan

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Review of the Movie Black Swan

Introduction

Black Swan is a psychosexual whodunit that portrays the unglamorous portion of the Ballet world. It is directed by Darren Aronofsky, who is recognized as his sharp, creative mind. The movie is enthused by Swan Lake, a well-known ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In the film, the main character is Nina, who is known as the Swan Queen. Symbolism is used in the play where the duty of the Swan Queen, Nina scuffles to become the contrary of who she is, ensuing in numerous hallucinatory incidents (Macaulay, 2011). The hallucinatory episodes comprise symbolism where they include bodily horrors like the cleaving of skin and consecutive appearance of a doppelganger or twin. She starts imagining things that are not occurring like a lesbian hurl who she is infatuated with due to her natural personification of the Black Swan, which Nina needs.

Symbolism is also noted where in the Opera, a princess is curved into a White Swan decides to fall in love to Black Swan. In the film, the ballet corporate the characters are in, decides to put a modern twist on the fiction (Macaulay, 2011). They decide to troupe only one individual for both the Black Swan and White Swan with the test of being adaptable enough to take negative roles.

In the film, the key character (Nina, frolicked by Natalie Portman) is cast as the Swan Queen. She has to take part both the Black Swan and White Swan (Macaulay, 2011). The White Swan comes logically for Nina. She is innocent, fearful, and controlled. Though, it is an extreme challenge for her to turn out to be the seductive, shady and secretive Black Swan. To take the role of the Swan Queen, Nina fights to become the contradictory of who she is, after numerous hallucinatory incidents that comprise bodily horror. All these examples of the movie are surprising, and they make watching the Swan movie to be interesting. The Black Swan African Movie is a film which I have presently observed, and I found it interesting following the examples of symbolism that I have listed in the text here.

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Macaulay, A. (2011). “Black Swan” Deconstructed, Film’s Many Faces. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/arts/dance/10swan.htmlnhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/arts/dance/10swan.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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Introduction

There is no complete evilness or goodness.  We are in a visceral combat where our superego and id are regularly battling to take a larger hand. Society commends perfect and kindness. It is possibly counterproductive to conquer often your fundamental desires and feelings. It is authoritative to recognize yourself as a mixture of evil and good. Otherwise, you will drop in profound self-blame and scuffle when you teach your bad side which is the polar conflicting to the uncompromising image you set for yourself. And this could cause major significances as is in the case of Lina, where she almost collapses and starts to fantasize when she cannot appropriately balance the two qualities inside her. She desires to yield to the enticement of being bad, but her model to be perfect discards that section of herself and tosses her into profound self-blame.

In the Swan African movie, symbolism is shown when Nina’s transforms into the Swan Queen, her exasperating dance with excellence and her fascination with it. Nina is portrayed as naïve, horrible and frosty. She is stressed by her supervisory mother (Barbara Hershey) who gave up bopping to have her (Smith, Austrich, Brown, & Steding, 2015). Rick Instrell’s investigation of Black Swan remarks how we can use Jungian models, or Storytelling epitomes to describe the duties of the other letterings in the film. According to Instrell, the prototypes we can locate in the movie are the Bad Mom identified to deter development. The Shadow is always seen in the villain/s, displays dark, immature side of the personality, the Wise Old Man, who is a mentor, and the Shape shifter a symbolic of the character, continuously changing.

Nina’s mom symbolizes both the Shadow and Bad Mother archetype. Nina is not actual confident because mother controls her by continuously nursing her life and her body. She lives her visions through Nina, whose desire for dancing does not display as much as her ambition for excellence. Her sense of declaration and regulator comes in short eruptions- the first illustration starts when she asks her counselor, Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) to reassess her for the part of the Swan Queen (Smith et al., 2015). At the end of her conversion, Nina displays her controlling side by “murdering” Lily in her phantasm.

Beth MacIntrye (Winona Ryder), the elderly ballerina, is also seen as a Gumshoe because of her dark, damaging personality (which Nina finally finds in herself when she develops to the Black Swan). Beth’s presence in the movie is petite but crucial (Smith et al., 2015). She appears before Nina’s conversion at the festivity where Thomas declares Nina’s part as Swan Queen and before Nina’s alteration is complete.

 Lily can be both a Shape and Shadow shifter character as she signifies the darker side of Nina’s character as well as the fact that it is quiet changing. In several instances, Nina changes from her regular, White Swan personality to her dark, Dusky Swan sister. In one of the first acts of the film, the scene in the subway, Nina perceives Lily from afar, and she appears to like her, except she’s wearing black (Smith et al., 2015). All characters that surround Nina in the movie are wearing black which shows the use of dark symbolism. Nina’s “evil twin” or a doppelganger or is also grasped in black.

The movie opens with the original soundtrack of Swan Lake, with the sound of a dusky laugh fading in with surges of the wind as the words “Black Swan” seem on the screen. This soundtrack flair is used through the film (Smith et al., 2015). The Traditional Tchaikovsky configurations are given a modern, eerie twist by implanting sound belongings that are typically used in uncertainty/psycho thriller movies. The head shot is of Nina, with her back fronting the spectators dressed in white, with the limelight on her. Other than this limelight, she is encircled by darkness.

References

Smith, V. D., Austrich, C. G., Brown, R. R., & Steding, L. H. (2015). The Portrayal of Black Swan Through a Multicontexual Framework. The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 23(1), 97–101. http://doi.org/10.1177/1066480714555670

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