black swan : a review
note: spoilers ahead, if you haven't watch the movies please don't read it first. you have been warned.
is the poster scary enough for you?
just watched black swan yesterday night. the movie has garnered so many awards and nominations that i had to see it for myself. the good thing is, the movie didn't disappoint.
and natalie portman's portrayal as nina sayers, the naive, confuse, insecure, and talented ballet dancer was really outstanding. it's been a really long time since i watch any of her movies (the last being star wars ( i know!i know!), so for me it felt like, wow, her acting skills are way better than how it had been.
the movie is not bad under the psychological thriller category because, believe me, my heart was racing in fear when i watch it. i highly recommend the movie.
here are some scene where i think really gave the movie some extra oomph:
1. there's a part where nina was trying to pull some of the excess skin near the nail out but ends up peeling up almost a quarter of her skin. that is just visual torture for me. but later it turns out to be just a hallucination. ( one of the many hallucinations that nina will be facing).
2.there's a night when she stayed up late to practice and saw thomas and lily making out and thomas turning into the demon and trying to grab hold of nina. that scene gave me goosebumps. nina freak out, went to her room and grab all the stuff that she took from beth and went to the hospital to return it to her. it turns out beth became one of her hallucinations too, and took the knife and stuck it in her own face repeatedly. gross, all the blood!
3. when nina got really upset one day and saw the rash at her back getting worst, and when she tried to pull out the prick it turns out to be a black feather, she went all crazy and tried to stop her mum from coming into her room, and her mum used her hands to stop her from closing the door, nina didn't care and banged the door closed even though her mother's fingers are there. imagine all four of her mom's fingers got banged really hard twice. initially i thought all of the fingers might just fall of and there will be blood everywhere. i declare this as scary scene number 3.
4. oh yeah, i forgot to mention the part where all the paintings that her mum painted of her started to become real and became ala scream ( the painting). that's eerie too. i mean, what's wrong with her mom? i was suspecting that she has some kind of disorder too. who paints their daughter's portrait over and over again and cries at the painting?
5. the part where nina's legs bend and contoured into a swan's one, that's scary too. the way the leg bends is so unnatural that it's just impossible for a human leg to do so.
6. the finale, the day of nina's performance shows her having a fight with lily, who she thinks wanna steal her part, wearing her black swan costume where she was to perform. she shoved lily to the mirror and thus breaking it into little pieces and took a piece of it and push it into her abdomen, and thinking that she was dead, left her to bleed to death.
nina only realized when it was a hallucination when lily went and congratulate her on her performance as black swan. only then did she realized that the blood on the floor is imaginary, and only when she pulled out part of the shredded mirror out from her abdomen that she realized that the person that she fight with just now was herself.
the film ended with nina dancing the last part of the performance, jumping down to the mattress, and bleeding to death (i'm not sure if she died). her final words was: i was perfect.
'
here's a confession: i've never watch a horror movie because there's ghost in it. however, i would describe black swan as a horror movie, just that it doesn't have ghost in it. don't get me wrong, it's not just a horror movie. it's a awesome to the max horror movie.
but, i wouldn't compare it with the likes of inception, because both are totally in a different genre.
black swan will be airing in malaysia on 24 february( i am very surprised that it would even hit our shores, and i question the amount of parts that they will be censoring) , so, don't get your hopes up so high if you want to watch that steamy scene where lily and nina do it.
or you can wait fot the blu-ray version of it, or even faster, get your friends to download it for you. i am eternally grateful for them to download all this exceptional movies for me.
:)
just watched black swan yesterday night. the movie has garnered so many awards and nominations that i had to see it for myself. the good thing is, the movie didn't disappoint.
and natalie portman's portrayal as nina sayers, the naive, confuse, insecure, and talented ballet dancer was really outstanding. it's been a really long time since i watch any of her movies (the last being star wars ( i know!i know!), so for me it felt like, wow, her acting skills are way better than how it had been.
the movie is not bad under the psychological thriller category because, believe me, my heart was racing in fear when i watch it. i highly recommend the movie.
here are some scene where i think really gave the movie some extra oomph:
1. there's a part where nina was trying to pull some of the excess skin near the nail out but ends up peeling up almost a quarter of her skin. that is just visual torture for me. but later it turns out to be just a hallucination. ( one of the many hallucinations that nina will be facing).
2.there's a night when she stayed up late to practice and saw thomas and lily making out and thomas turning into the demon and trying to grab hold of nina. that scene gave me goosebumps. nina freak out, went to her room and grab all the stuff that she took from beth and went to the hospital to return it to her. it turns out beth became one of her hallucinations too, and took the knife and stuck it in her own face repeatedly. gross, all the blood!
3. when nina got really upset one day and saw the rash at her back getting worst, and when she tried to pull out the prick it turns out to be a black feather, she went all crazy and tried to stop her mum from coming into her room, and her mum used her hands to stop her from closing the door, nina didn't care and banged the door closed even though her mother's fingers are there. imagine all four of her mom's fingers got banged really hard twice. initially i thought all of the fingers might just fall of and there will be blood everywhere. i declare this as scary scene number 3.
4. oh yeah, i forgot to mention the part where all the paintings that her mum painted of her started to become real and became ala scream ( the painting). that's eerie too. i mean, what's wrong with her mom? i was suspecting that she has some kind of disorder too. who paints their daughter's portrait over and over again and cries at the painting?
5. the part where nina's legs bend and contoured into a swan's one, that's scary too. the way the leg bends is so unnatural that it's just impossible for a human leg to do so.
6. the finale, the day of nina's performance shows her having a fight with lily, who she thinks wanna steal her part, wearing her black swan costume where she was to perform. she shoved lily to the mirror and thus breaking it into little pieces and took a piece of it and push it into her abdomen, and thinking that she was dead, left her to bleed to death.
nina only realized when it was a hallucination when lily went and congratulate her on her performance as black swan. only then did she realized that the blood on the floor is imaginary, and only when she pulled out part of the shredded mirror out from her abdomen that she realized that the person that she fight with just now was herself.
the film ended with nina dancing the last part of the performance, jumping down to the mattress, and bleeding to death (i'm not sure if she died). her final words was: i was perfect.
'
here's a confession: i've never watch a horror movie because there's ghost in it. however, i would describe black swan as a horror movie, just that it doesn't have ghost in it. don't get me wrong, it's not just a horror movie. it's a awesome to the max horror movie.
but, i wouldn't compare it with the likes of inception, because both are totally in a different genre.
black swan will be airing in malaysia on 24 february( i am very surprised that it would even hit our shores, and i question the amount of parts that they will be censoring) , so, don't get your hopes up so high if you want to watch that steamy scene where lily and nina do it.
or you can wait fot the blu-ray version of it, or even faster, get your friends to download it for you. i am eternally grateful for them to download all this exceptional movies for me.
:)
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