At this moment there is nothing more beautiful in the whole entire world...

I can't think of anything more perfect or humbling or overwhelming.

Black Swan

God, this film is breathtaking! Beautiful, stark, raw, powerful and disturbing in all honesty I couldn't move for about 10 minutes afterwards (I thought I was stuck!)... i have great problems concentrating on anything but I couldn't turn off...

Natalie's acting is just stunning.. if she doesn't get an Oscar I don't know who will...

I really wanted to see this film and to see it at the cinema is a must. Don't however expect an easy ride. Although perhaps unrealistic this film addresses real issues and, for once, there is nothing glamourous about it. The world of ballet and perfectionism, pressure, beauty and art is presented in its entirety as a world for the brilliant but sometimes highly disturbed.

Whereas in Swan Lake Odette kills for her love in the Black Swan Nina (Natalie) is overtaken by deep psychosis, perfectionism and dillusion resulting in her violent death. The film does use special effects but they are beautiful rather than over the top and present the confusion and falling apart of Nina's mind.

Nina is not mad, and not even Schizophrenic (as many seem to put it) her imagination and sub conscious have just taken over, her emotions and behaviour uncontrollable, her reality fleeting and her desire to be perfect all encompassing.

I think this is the key
PERFECTION AND THE DESIRE TO BE PERFECT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION IN THE BRILLIANT.

Natalie's dancing carries the character.. that is all I can say.. anyone trying to criticise her for not being a prima ballerina... well fuck you!

On an emotional level.. this film is transcendent.

Go see....

transcendence

A weightlessness.
A light.
A floating above.
A flicker.
A spirit.
A breath of air.
Is it there?
A power.
An energy.
A burning of fire.
An aura or colour.
Above godliness.
An immortal trace.


The search for transendence;
To be flying lie a bird or a storm
To leave the rund n run or haunt.
The ability to be.
Anse of pureness divine.
A glowing light pierces the skin.
Wite noise.
Silence.
Power?
A lust, a thirst for the sou or the soul to be sought.
Leavng a feeling of fame behind and gaining everything.
Immortality.
An epemmeral beauty caughht in the net of eternal time.
This is being.
Ultimate holiness.
Too far to touch, too bright to see,
Scentless, yet it ovewhelmsthe senses.
More than a person can bear?
Is it there?

the perfect human?

If we distane ourselves from the subject, take out emotion then we can be objective.
Something can be perfect. We are not perfect. This is not perfect. But everything is perfect because it is how it is. Everything is destiny. Destiny is perfect. Pain is perfect. Lifeis perfect because it feels like something. Perfect is not perfec inthe tradiional sense.

Questions?