The descent into madness to find our greatest genius. Van Gogh ... Frank Lloyd Wright ... Earnest Hemingway... Paulo Ceolho ... Perhaps a portrait of the Artist Himself...Darren Aronofsky ... and then there is Natalie Portman ...I have to be completely honest that Although I have always found Natalie Portman affable...and always capable of delivering a believable performance...I never thought her work to be inspiring... but in her latest work she displays an artistic depth rarely seen on the screen... an honest an chilling portrait of an artist's transformation in a Kafkaesque metamorphosis aided by Darren Aronofsky's ability to create a world of paranoia with its razor sharp cuts and its twists and interplay of caracters...leaving you wondering whos who and whats real. It stands as a work trying to bring you into the inner life of an artist trying to grow in new dimensions when being asked to approach a schizophrenic offering to play both protagonist and antagonist of Swan Lake.
Never have I wanted to go to the Ballet more than after watching this film.
The creative process is an often painful process... the drive to deliver in a creative being can be all consuming and Portman "shuts it down" with her performance...Kudos to her... The paranoia...depression...exhilleration....and denouement.... Cheers to beauty..LONG MAY IT LIVE
The supporting cast foils her performance well....specifically Barbra Hershey the over-protective, mentally unstable, and jealous mother of the Dancer genius...
Black Swan was an inspiring piece of Art.
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