In Black Swan, Nina Sayers is a dedicated ballerina who bags the lead role of the Swan Queen in her company's radical new take on Swan Lake. She seems the perfect embodiment of the White Swan, all lightness and fragility and innocence, but her role also comprises the dark twin, the Black Swan. As opening night draws closer, Nina finds that releasing her self control might be the only way to succeed. As her preparation transcends her performance, the Black Swan takes her into a psychological nightmare.
As mentioned above, there's more to Black Swan than what appears on the surface, at least as far as the trailers go. I'm eager to avoid building up anybody's expectations, because your best course of action in seeing this film, and you really should see it, is to do as Nina does and lose control, letting it take you for a ride. If you let it, this film will grab you by the brain and rattle you up, down, around and all over for a rock solid and visually beautiful 100 minutes of psychological terror.
Let's kid ourselves though- unlike Nina, there are no two ways about this. As much as it deserves all of the attention its received at awards ceremonies, whether for Natalie Portman's astonishing performance or for the dazzling visuals, this is not the usual kind of dry drama you get being nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. It's actually closer to Shutter Island, but with less self-restraint. In short, it is a massive, honking, flappy-armed melodrama.
It's not a film of any dense subtlety, and once you get into it, what you see is pretty much what you get, as far as what director Darren Aronofsky is "trying to say". The colour scheme deals largely in blacks and whites, mirrors can be found wall-to-wall, and the body horror that goes on throughout is decently visceral, without a lot of restraint. Aronofsky's restraint is in taking the story of Nina seriously despite using all of the tools of melodrama that he can lay his hands on. There's potential here for a film that could tip over into outrageous Evil Dead or Drag Me to Hell style histrionics, but while a Sam Raimi version of Black Swan would be a lot more fun, I struggle to imagine it being better.
However clear the subtext might be, the straightforward psychological horror is compensated for by a slack grasp on reality, which unseats just about every bit of security you have going in. Nina is the audience identification figure, fitting in with a recent trend of unreliable narrators in grown-up cinema of late. Her brain disintegrates more and more as we go on, and her delusion and hallucinations are all we have to go on for certain stretches of the film. Portman amazed me in this role, finally bursting out of the stigma of Star Wars to show everyone her true capabilities, and really just making a film that could have fell apart with a lesser performer in the leading role...................
biraz daha derinde, muhtemelen film okuması yapanların en sık gözardı edeceği ama benim önemli bulduğum bir nokta var. bir sanatçının, kendisini bulması için sarf ettiği çabanın filmi bir anlamda "black swan." biz film boyunca nina'nın aslında kendisinden alabileceği en iyi performansı almaya çalışmasını, kendisini zorlayışını, hatta yıpratışını izliyoruz. david cronenberg'ün "spider"ında ralph fiennes'ın karakterinde gördüğüm bir yan var nina'da da. orada fiennes anlaşılmayan bir dilde konuşup yazıyordu ve genel olarak hastalıklı bir kişiliğe odaklanmış bir psikolojik film olarak görülse de bir yanıyla sanatçının üretimi, dış dünyayla iletişiminin zorluğu üzerineydi. "black swan"da da nina'nın performansına kadar geçirdiği değişimi gözlemliyoruz. ve fark ediyoruz ki, nina'nın kişiliği aslında bir araç. bir karakteri yaratırken, performansı orta koyarken nina kendisinden geçmek zorunda. insan vücudundan geçip toprağa karışan elektrik akımı gibi sanki: o performansı verecek ve bu uğurda kendisi sadece iletken bir cisim olacak. o cisim haline gelene kadar da kendisinin tüm kişisel özellikleri kaybolacak. bu, bence önemli bir yorum. bir anlamda, sanatçının yaptığı işte kendisinin önemli olmadığını, sanatın kişiden büyük olduğunu ifade ediyor "black swan."
As mentioned above, there's more to Black Swan than what appears on the surface, at least as far as the trailers go. I'm eager to avoid building up anybody's expectations, because your best course of action in seeing this film, and you really should see it, is to do as Nina does and lose control, letting it take you for a ride. If you let it, this film will grab you by the brain and rattle you up, down, around and all over for a rock solid and visually beautiful 100 minutes of psychological terror.
Let's kid ourselves though- unlike Nina, there are no two ways about this. As much as it deserves all of the attention its received at awards ceremonies, whether for Natalie Portman's astonishing performance or for the dazzling visuals, this is not the usual kind of dry drama you get being nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. It's actually closer to Shutter Island, but with less self-restraint. In short, it is a massive, honking, flappy-armed melodrama.
It's not a film of any dense subtlety, and once you get into it, what you see is pretty much what you get, as far as what director Darren Aronofsky is "trying to say". The colour scheme deals largely in blacks and whites, mirrors can be found wall-to-wall, and the body horror that goes on throughout is decently visceral, without a lot of restraint. Aronofsky's restraint is in taking the story of Nina seriously despite using all of the tools of melodrama that he can lay his hands on. There's potential here for a film that could tip over into outrageous Evil Dead or Drag Me to Hell style histrionics, but while a Sam Raimi version of Black Swan would be a lot more fun, I struggle to imagine it being better.
However clear the subtext might be, the straightforward psychological horror is compensated for by a slack grasp on reality, which unseats just about every bit of security you have going in. Nina is the audience identification figure, fitting in with a recent trend of unreliable narrators in grown-up cinema of late. Her brain disintegrates more and more as we go on, and her delusion and hallucinations are all we have to go on for certain stretches of the film. Portman amazed me in this role, finally bursting out of the stigma of Star Wars to show everyone her true capabilities, and really just making a film that could have fell apart with a lesser performer in the leading role...................
biraz daha derinde, muhtemelen film okuması yapanların en sık gözardı edeceği ama benim önemli bulduğum bir nokta var. bir sanatçının, kendisini bulması için sarf ettiği çabanın filmi bir anlamda "black swan." biz film boyunca nina'nın aslında kendisinden alabileceği en iyi performansı almaya çalışmasını, kendisini zorlayışını, hatta yıpratışını izliyoruz. david cronenberg'ün "spider"ında ralph fiennes'ın karakterinde gördüğüm bir yan var nina'da da. orada fiennes anlaşılmayan bir dilde konuşup yazıyordu ve genel olarak hastalıklı bir kişiliğe odaklanmış bir psikolojik film olarak görülse de bir yanıyla sanatçının üretimi, dış dünyayla iletişiminin zorluğu üzerineydi. "black swan"da da nina'nın performansına kadar geçirdiği değişimi gözlemliyoruz. ve fark ediyoruz ki, nina'nın kişiliği aslında bir araç. bir karakteri yaratırken, performansı orta koyarken nina kendisinden geçmek zorunda. insan vücudundan geçip toprağa karışan elektrik akımı gibi sanki: o performansı verecek ve bu uğurda kendisi sadece iletken bir cisim olacak. o cisim haline gelene kadar da kendisinin tüm kişisel özellikleri kaybolacak. bu, bence önemli bir yorum. bir anlamda, sanatçının yaptığı işte kendisinin önemli olmadığını, sanatın kişiden büyük olduğunu ifade ediyor "black swan."
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