Midterm Writing Test

The Black Swan, an unforgettable masterpiece

Darren Aronofsky, fantastic movie director, pushes the limits of psychological movies by intruding Nina's vision of reality eyes. The movie Black Swan tells the story of a ballerina, Natalie Portman as Nina, who's objective is to give a perfect performance in the first role of a well-known story; the swan lake. The artistic director played by Vincent Cassel has a new vision of an old play that he wants to produce where the role of the white swan and her alter ego the black swan will be danced by the same ballerina. Through the movie, we intrude Nina's head and see how the pressure and her will to succeed perfectly madden her. It shows us how the research of perfection can destroy our life. The story of the Black Swan developed a more complex way of seeing the story of the swan lake, a well-known favourite, through the story of the protagonist. It's basically an internal conflict between Nina as the perfect childish girl and this other woman she is becoming who's totally the opposite.

This movie is a masterpiece, not only for its original plot but also for its revealing acting performance and camerawork. Natalie Portman exceeds the expectations, as Peter Travers wrote in the Rolling Stones movie's review: '' (Natalie Portman) delivers an all-stops-out performance that will soon be stuff of legend''. She carried us away into her world has she shows us a new aspect of her acting abilities. She has improved a lot since she played Padme Amidala in Star wars. Also, Matthew Libatique, cinematographer, achieved an astonishing work, the shooting during all the movie adds to the dramatic plot. All the close up and the swirling help us to get easily into Nina's head and identify ourselves as hers during the time of the movie.

Aronofsky is well known for his exploration of the human limits. As Monohohla Dargis said in her movie review in the New York times (On Point, on Top, in Pain): ''trawled the lower depths in ''Requiem for a Dream'' and struggled to scale the metaphysical heights with '' The Fountain'' '', and in Black Swan, he takes us into the dark deep of human mind and social pressure.

To conclude, this movie not only instructs us about the world of ballet and the killing pressure the dancers have to suffer, but also shows us an amazing acting performance, a superb camerawork  and a very artistic and modern way of representing the story of the swan lake. The filming, the actors, the makeup and the costume; everything is perfectly develop.
 Two thumbs up to the Black Swan which will surely win the best movie at the Oscar.

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