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| tallulahme |
on Thu 3 Feb 11, 10:27 AM to tallulahme's blog.
Edited Thu 3 Feb 11, 11:19 AM by tallulahme
| 3 Feb 11, 11:05 AM clare 11 yrs |
I loathed it. A psychodrama based on the tedious neurosis of an immature New York ballet dancer trying to find her inner wild girl. The characterizations of the uptight girl and the sensuous girl were as bland and stereotypical as the White Swan and the Black Swan themselves. Add to that the stereotypical pushy mother and the cruel casting couch of the artistic director and you find yourself cringing in your seat at being asked to suck up so many stereotypes in only one evening. I only went to see it because the other screen was sold out.  | |
| 3 Feb 11, 12:19 PM billsmurf 11 yrs |
From what i have seen in trailers advertising the movie, it is one i won't be going to see. I am looking forward to the Yogi Bear movie later this month | |
| 3 Feb 11, 12:55 PM jenevieve UK(CH), 4 yrs |
I'm avoiding this too, the trailers just put me right off it. | |
| 3 Feb 11, 1:35 PM tallulahme UK, 2 yrs |
Do you have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both? - Susan Saranden Edited 4 Feb 11, 2:07 PM by tallulahme | |
| 3 Feb 11, 1:53 PM MizzScarlett UK, 4 yrs |
I loved it ... despite being utterly terrified: what can I say - I'm a wimp  I loved the hand-held camera-work and the feeling that the camera was on one of the dancers. I loved the dance sequences and the costumes. I loved the palette of murky and pastels. I loved the use of mirrors. I loved the intrinsic dancerishness of the movements of the mother and daughter together; they didn't do mundane movements, at all. I loved the B-movie aspects, and the visceral nature of the whole film. I loved the paying of homage to The Red Shoes, the work of Roman Polanski and Ed Wood. What's it about? Freedom? | |
| 3 Feb 11, 3:01 PM TheSilverFox  UK(GU), 2 yrs    |
Well observed daughter!!! "The art of being a Gentleman is knowing when not to be" | |
| 3 Feb 11, 5:24 PM simplicity UK(TN), 6 yrs |
Trailers rarely jump out at me and say, "come watch me", but Black Swan did, so my Gorgeous Lady and I went to see it yesterday afternoon. I loved the intensity and darkness of it, and we had our moments where it made us jump. My heart was pounding a couple of times, and then other times I realised I was holding my breath.
I was completely enthralled by it, and would gladly see it again, and again
Who am I??? Her lucky and spoilt bitch, that's who | |
| 3 Feb 11, 10:13 PM eloesa UK(SO), 7 yrs      |
It was the bit towards the end... Please look away if you are goinn to see it ... When the mirror which had been broken in the dressing room... ( remember?)well, we then see it repaired when the corpse os no longer- yet she herself has a wound from a sliver of glass from the mirror....
I really hope im wrong .. its been irritating me since i saw it but I'm not going to watch it again to find out So if anyone is going or can remember? They say, the best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad. | |
| 3 Feb 11, 11:05 PM clare 11 yrs |
The cost of her psychotic illusions was self immolation!! dah dahh!!! | |
| 3 Feb 11, 11:19 PM silklover2 7 yrs |
I found it quite intense and gripping, and very well filmed, as others have said, with the hand held camera work, atmospheric sets, and the uncertainty of not knowing what's real and what's delusion in some parts. The friend I went with didn't like it, and at the end she said she felt there wasn't a single nice character in the film. However we talked about it all the way home (45 minute drive for us), so it stimulated a lot of thoughts and discussion, and there's a lot more in the film than is immediately apparent. It's not an easy watch though, and definitely has very dark, horror-film aspects to it in parts. Silklover2 |
