The film won four awards including best feature film and best female lead for Natalie Portman.
Darren Aronofsky to direct the best, after two years ago had the privilege to film The Wrestler which also won best cinematography for Matthew Libatique.
Victory Black Swan is an evidence of the risks and benefits of independent filmmaking. Aronofsky and Portman who first discussed the filming of Black Swan about a decade ago. When they finally started shooting, apparently filming is facing financial problems.
Screenplay also had dozens of revisions, investors also withdrew its investment, and some Hollywood studios rejected, including the distributor Fox Searchlight.
"Every time you try to do something unusual, it's a challenge," says Aronofsky. The challenge of constant increase financing the film, although ultimately successful with movies like "The Wrestler" and Requiem for a Dream.
Nina: "I Had the Craziest Dream last night about a girl WHO has turned into a swan, but her prince falls for the wrong girl and She kills herself." (Citations manuscript BLACK SWAN)
For a Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) become a professional ballerina is a dream, his ideals, and also the greatest obsession. In exaggerated by a mother who is a former ballerina who is no less obsessive indirectly shape the personality Nina. He grew into one's a perfectionist, but also closed at the same time, he was an anti-social and less open himself. Indeed, as the ballerina Nina could bring all the dancing and ballet movements are complicated by the beautiful and perfect but unfortunately there is no soul in every gesture grace of the said Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel), a staging director who appointed him as the Swan Queen, the main character of the staging Swan Lake to replace the prima ballerina, Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) who 'forced' retirement.
Bringing the role as the Swan Queen is certainly not an easy matter. The complex role demands Nina to not only remove any ability to dance well but also require him to show two sides of different emotions. As the White Swan is full of charm and innocence, yes, he is able, but not as a Black Swan, a character opposites, dark and seductive character that was difficult to remove by Nina in the introverted, much less the arrival of a new ballerina, Lili (Milla Kunis ) that is able to bring the Black Swan with a good character to make the competition get hot and quickly also became the beginning of a terrible rivalry.
Destructive obsession seems to be the theme of a Darren Aronofsky penchant for always poured in each of his works. Just look in her film debut, Pi, which tells a man obsessed with the theory of mathematics, Requiem for a Dream, the junkies who expect a better life in the wrong way, The Fountain, a scientist who wants to conquer time and space to find her lover , or The Wrestler, a former professional wrestler who never want to stop a career. Well, now in his latest work, Black Swan, Aronofsky brings this favorite theme to a higher level.
At first glance Black Swan might just tell a neighbor rivalry of two ballerinas in the fight over a prestigious role, the Swan Queen. But Darren Aronofsky's not his name if not able to make the real theme of this simple dish into a complex, heavy and full of intrigues psychological upper class but also very interesting to watch. Yes, the Black Swan is a very complex psychological thriller, absurd, sensual, dark, erotic and also decorated with a lot of symbolic scenes are covered in a horrible smell of horror, although obviously this is not a horror movie, or you could say the same watch Black Swan the sensation is like watching a combination of such films as Rosemary's Baby, All About Eve and The Red Shoes that are mixed into a single unit.
Like the Black Swan's own staging, a duration of 108 minutes this film is like a stage show tells the same title that Nina's search for identity in which a slowly but steadily transformed from the characters 'White Swan' to 'Black Swan' is shown in a series of horrific moments nan absurd that indirectly requires the audience to think hard to conclude what actually happened on the character of Nina, is this a dream or reality?. You could say almost a third of the film presents a character study that is built with a very nicely by a Natalie Portman. Yes, this is the best role of the artist 29 years after Mathida in his acting debut in Léon: The Professional 16 years ago. Portman successful dive into the character Nina, not just acting very well, but he is also perfectly capable of dancing as a ballerina at the same time, stealing the attention of the audience throughout the film, even the presence of a Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis also seemed unable to match the charm of a Natalie Portman, even golden Oscar statue seemed feels very appropriate to be given to him after seeing a performance here.
After 1 hour the first Aronofsky tries to give a picture of Nina karkater with all conflict with the groove a little slow, in the last 30 minutes you could say is the culmination of everything. Packing with a dynamic camera technique, beautiful cinematography, dazzling choreography, offering a cover of staging terror ballet 'The Black Swan "is covered with a climactic peak berhsil who could make me shudder to see it. A closure is super dramatic and lasting as it is often shown Aronofsky in his films.
Darren Aronofsky did it again!. Black Swan I can say is one of his greatest genius was probably the best after Requiem for a Dream. Almost all aspects of both technical and non technical successfully worked to perfection by director 41 years, presenting a unique cinematic experience and sensation are not forgotten, horrible and frightening but also emotional at the same time plus the fantastic acting of Natalie Portman makes everything was incredible. Yes, the Black Swan is a beautiful and nightmarish masterpiece, definitely one of the best this year.