Black Swan "Its Art"

This has been a tough movie for me to review and I have spent several weeks digesting it. Natalie Portman transformed herself into Nina, a troubled, at times mentally ill, ballerina. There was never a moment in the movie that I doubted she WAS Nina. Her performance was artistic as well as amazing. It was a complicated movie of good, evil, beauty and self mutilation (cutting). The viewer goes in and out of the character's psyche, and the transfer from Nina's reality to her insanity was genius and added significantly to the suspense.

The innuendo in the movie was — of course —  "its the mothers fault." I felt like rolling my eyes — in fact, I DID roll my eyes. 

The lesbian sex was way to explicit for me — another eye-roller. I like to get lost in a movie, but when I'm thinking "yuk — are they really going to show this much?" the movie looses something.

A friend (one of my peeps) in California saw the film in a theatre near Berkeley. The audience was laughing most likely when Nina sprouts feathers.

Black Swan seems to be in the same genre as some of Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

I believe this movie will become a classic. That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.

POST SCRIPT

The New York Times (Constance Rosenblum) did a piece on Annette Bening being the top contender for an Oscar for "Kids Are All Right." Come on — Annette played herself. She is the mother of teenage children, and although her spouse is male I bet he is not harder to live with than her on screen wife. By comparison Natalie Portman completely transformed herself.

I have noticed that reviewers seem to give higher ratings to movies that include hot lesbian sex so I was surprised to see that Constance gave such high praise to "The Kids." The sex was much more explicit in "Black Swan." In case you haven't guessed, I prefer not to watch other people have sex. I believe it can be shown in an artful way without feeling like I am voyeur. 

As I said: That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it — whats yours????