It’s intense and good (maybe great) but sure as s*t not fun. Discuss.
I really wanted to (and not just for the obvious Natalie Portman/Mila Kunis reason I swears!) but never did unfortunately. DVD when it comes out definitely. I like a nice depressing movie ever now and then, The Road served nicely in that capacity a few nights ago.
I dont know what people talking about “the decline of cinema” mean, their’s way too much great stuff coming out for me to find time to go see these days.
Son goes to bed in about 20 minutes… then Black Swan… will report back…
alternate method screen…but…what’s one to do …
Black Swan is one of the best films I have seen this year. It’s raw, intense, and completely unforgettable. Portman will rightfully win her Oscar for this role that both compliments and critisizes the world of ballet by showing us an up-and-coming prima slowly deteriorate under the pressure of the spotlight. Darren Arronofsky is back in form with a horror film that will overload every sense in the human brain.
This is hard movie to love because of it’s intensity and Portman’s performance leaves no place to hide as her character self destructs with the help of three powerful outside influences. I’d love to hear Sean talk about it as the core question of the film is how far can or should you ask anybody to sacrifice for the sake of art?
was interested but I vowed that i wouldn’t watch another movie until the GWC community says its more awesome than Scott Pilgrim.
Totally agree. I just saw it last night and it was amazing.
Scott Pilgrim was my 4th favorite film this year. Black Swan was my 3rd. Go see it!
well i saw it last night… and well it was really peculiar; i liked it, at least i think i did. The acting was truly great; the climax at the end, superb, the thing was the mixing of tones, and uneven pacing. than it hit me it was similar too Requiem for a dream. than i did some internet snooping a realized it was the same director. yes im that dumb some times :o
So i liked it, i guess, maybe… it was just uncomfortable to watch.
haven’t got a chance to see it, but i still don’t understand why Summer Glau isn’t in this movie.
This is a absolutely fantastic film; from start to finish the movie is a work of art . Portman has to get an award for this film .
What was your number one and two?
I’ll be seeing it on Thursday. I liked Perfect Blue a lot back in the day and this seems to have shades of that so it should be interesting.
Trust me when I say I understand. Maybe I should have worded my recommendation better. Maybe I should say that you need to be prepared to be put in a very uncomfortable place and while this film is unforgettable, if you are looking for something pleasant, this is NOT your ride. This is an express lane to hell, going down!
There are some moments in the film that shock you. In the end, I was surprised at how well I understood it. Usually I go online to read about movies of this type to understand them better and figure out what I missed. I’m not a genius; I needed Donnie darko to be broken down some for me to get it, I took to online boards to fill in some Inception blanks, etc.
[SPOILER]But I got Black Swan, and that was almost disappointing to me. It’s really about a few core issues. It’s about art and sacrifice, it’s about parents and children, it’s obviously something of a parallel of the ballet itself, and it’s about adulthood and maturity, specifically sexual maturity. I’m glad I saw it, and now I want to see the real ballet, but I’ll never see the film again, most likely. The climax, and its excellent implementation of CG, was brilliant, but it was a bit slow getting there.[/SPOILER]
My favorite breakdown of the movie was how it all boiled down to that scene where she bought the shoes and began to make them ballet-ready. That’s your movie right there.
Portman’s perfromance was solid thorughout, but her performance at the end was incredible. I mean, just jaw-dropping. I would really have to wrack my brain to find an acting performance that was that good in recent memory.
Black Swan was the best movie I saw in 2010. Sorry all you Scott Pilgrim fans out there, but it didn’t make my personal top ten.
I liked it, but it was definitely a movie made by Aronofsky throughout, mind bending and full of all the things that are ‘wrong’ with the world. I recommend seeing it if you like movies that keep twisting right up until the very end and then you think back and say, well yes, that was crazy.
Yeah, Black Swan was not only better than Pilgrim, but Pilgrim was kind of disappointing. Some brilliant moments, and I love Smashing Pumpkins references, but the film lacked cohesion.
Awww…I liked Scott Pilgrim. I didn’t think it was gonna get mentioned at the Oscars. It was still a fun and creative film.
The wife and I went to Black Swan on it’s opening weekend. It’s start was a little slow but the build-up of tension was deliberate and inexorable. Pretty soon we’re sitting there squirming in our seats at how raw some of the scenes were and what the hell was happening and what the frack was going to happen next!
In some ways the ending was obvious and a little let-down, because we know how the ballet ends … but it’s the journey that’s the mind-frack. I mean, my wife kept turning to me and whispering “What the F***? What the F***?” and not because we didn’t know what was happening, but because the relationships were so dysfunctional.
[spoiler]I also don’t think the ballet director was quite the womanizing cad he was made out to be. Every time we see some sexual spark between them, he tells her to bring this to her performance. Though we’re told he sleeps with his prima ballerina, we don’t actually see that. We see him trying to get her to display a mature sexuality in her performance. The only time we see him having sex with anyone, is very likely an hallucination of her mind.[/spoiler]
runester, i agree with your spoiler text. i don’t know that it’s appropriate, but it seems to have a very specific purpose.