Of course, just like Professor Zhang Yijun, I humbly believe that the satisfaction and safety of childhood "attachment" will play an even more important role in later life.
Nina's mother gave birth to her at the age of 28 and was forced to retire from the ballet troupe. As a single parent, she worked hard to raise Nina as a first-rate ballerina. In the eyes of her mother, nina can only prove her success if she is qualified to be the lead dancer. Her mother restricted nina's food, time spent out, nail length, and interpersonal relationships. Nina complies with her mother's wishes and takes on her mother's dream of living with her, so she also feels that becoming the lead dancer of the new "Swan Lake" performance is the way to soothe her mother. She does not resist, including the lack of privacy and freedom of control. It is conceivable that the mother is not only a driving factor that cannot be offset in the face of fierce competition, but also a source of intrinsic personality and emotion that cannot be ignored.
This kind of parenting relationship can also be imagined. The relationship between nina and her mother at a young age is that the mother uses pressure and expectations to guide or correct the direction of nina. You can't go wrong, can't resist, can't have your own opinions and emotions, otherwise , She will be as persistent as if she asked Nina to eat cake after Nina got the qualification to lead the dancer. In the long time, nina learned how to please her mother and avoid making her angry. In fact, nina is very afraid of her mother. There are a few scenes where Nina dreams about or sees her mother’s paintings in a trance--those facial portraits with floating faces and weird expressions--the accompanying music is heavy and frightening. The atmosphere is also dim and silent. In this way, the true emotions that lasted for several years were hidden and entrusted to ballet with full power, and even the idea of letting go was never thought of.
Freud believed that human emotions are a kind of energy, which will appear in unwelcome places when suppressed in a place of normal catharsis. Nina was refused to lead the dance, in order to achieve her dream, or her mother's expectation, she asked the art director. I think why she left in embarrassment is also related to her mother's relationship. Being with women (mothers and ballet partners) all the year round gives her the natural elegance and reservedness of women. Coupled with the perennial ballet influence, such a woman will not give up the persistence that is regarded as faith in order to get a benefit. Her mother has been raised alone for several years, and his self-discipline and discipline like Shimizu also gave Nina a kind of belief that she would rather be broken.
The turning point came from lily. Nina is born with the softness and nobility of a white swan, and lily is born with the unruly and domineering of a black swan. When a desperately struggling thing is easily obtained by others, there will be jealousy and then envy. Nina is more likely to pay attention to her because she understands that she can't get the qualities of Lily. I will also understand why I can't learn how hard I work. The art director repeated his tone in different ways: Only by defeating yourself can the phoenix nirvana and the cocoon become a butterfly. How to defeat yourself? It is to find a way to resist, a tough way. And this is precisely what my mother does not allow.
Therefore, mother, lily, art director, and black swan put pressure from different directions, constantly shrinking the space and pressing each other. This is the external factors that lead her to change. To get a role, to defeat Lily, and to conform to her mother's expectations, she can only succeed if she finds the inner dark side.
In essence, nina, each of us has a dark side-what Freud called the "death instinct". Including the desire and ability to destroy oneself and others. Why
can't nina do any hard work? It was suppressed because it was something that my mother didn't like. It was a taboo no matter what, and it was not allowed. In the previous time, Nina was safe and sound without having to obtain these, but this time, under the pressure of Lily and the art director, she realized that her thoughts and behavior were imprisoned and suppressed, and she needed to resist. This kind of consciousness comes from external factors as well as internal subconscious awakening. Nina didn't dare to resist the power from her mother since she was a child, but she eliminated this consciousness from her bones. It doesn't exist at the level of consciousness, but it still works in the subconscious. It is always looking for opportunities to overthrow suppression and obtain reasonable catharsis and resolution. The opportunity is this time.
The power from the subconscious drove the appearance of the similar-looking woman dressed in black to a greater extent. The white swan couldn't resist by herself and had to phantom a black swan to replace her real desire to perform.
In this way, unwelcome emotions are suppressed by consciousness, and they are expressed in the form of "emotional stress" in unwelcome places: fantasizing about lily with oneself, fantasizing about mother's persecution, fantasizing about lily from it, fantasizing about lily again and again Force... In the end, I picked up the glass and grew black wings, bit by bit, awakened and resisted in the manner of a black swan, and finally became the proud and domineering black swan.
I think, leaving aside beth and a series of other elements, just looking at a clue, such a movie is the process by which nina discovers herself, using a black, desperate way to find herself subconsciously and can’t abandon it. The process of desire. Use another identity to satisfy and vent the desires and expectations that have been suppressed since childhood.
Just talking about the principles of psychoanalysis, it is inevitable to be biased, and some places are naturally mentioned or cannot be mentioned. In fact, behaviorism is also reflected in it. But in this respect, I tend to see this movie as the subject of self-seeking and struggle. Natalie Portman has a superb performance in it. From the first favorite "The Killer Is Not So Cold" and "Blueberry Night" to the present, she has become more and more noble and valuable because of her psychological background. Of course, I hope she can take this to get the Oscar statuette, so that she is really full of rewards.
It is worth mentioning that the ballet in it is very exciting. You would not believe that Natalie Portman has no ballet history, so you can imagine her hard work and hardship in the process of shaping the role. In addition, many people say that her appearance in it is very Hepburn's charm, aha, it is not in vain that I like her so much.
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