Aronofsky has abandoned his past. There are not many such as "Pi" and "Requiem for Dreams", but they can be called the sharp, fancy and bizarre films contained in the controversial and wonderful films with full of "author" styles such as cult, dissimilarity, and paradox. Photomontages and incredible story themes are replaced by this decade-old Black Swan. The film has an elegant literary and artistic temperament, but it obviously hides the director's previous tough and reckless interpretation of profound film topics. Instead, it makes the video screen flow with a delicate and gorgeous atmosphere. The content of the story discussed seems gentle and elegant, but in fact it is still It retains the dark, oppressive and desperate theme elements that Aronofsky is best at: the dark chaos in human nature and the cruel embodiment of the split personality.
The film "Black Swan" is about a ballet dancer Nina (played by Natalie Portman), who also performs the black and white swans in the "Swan Lake" dance drama. During the rehearsal, she gradually lost herself, blurring reality and illusion, appearing "too deep into the play" and a state of split personality. In the process of going deep into the art performance, she gradually induced the dark and evil side of her heart. The progress within the first 100 minutes of the film is not in a hurry, with a strong literary and artistic flavor, the beautiful ballet stage performance and the Swan Lake soundtrack that highlights the delicate atmosphere of the film. Regarding the inner world of the protagonist Nina and the external environment in which she lives, the director gave a thick and peaceful accumulative description, bit by bit sculpting the positive introspection, cowardice and gentle inner essence of Nina's character. This part of the character formation and characteristics is illustrated by her growing up in a single parent home and fighting for roles on stage and through real ballet performances.
Everyone has a white swan and a black swan in their hearts. With timely inducement and environmental stimulation, black swans occupy their body and mind with the negative image that represents unrestrained waves. Can this be explained as: under the repression and self-control character, it can create a The opposite of destructive power? The contrast between the distinctive characters of the black swan and the white swan is also used to imply the two opposites deep in the human heart. This kind of psychological thriller film with split personality belongs to the old-fashioned movie theme, but the script is placed in the environment of the artistic and eye-catching ballet and the behind-the-scenes stories that take place on the stage. Elevated the elegance of the film.
In the final 40-minute screen, the image became more and more "demon", and the plot broke out under the extremely "suffocating" and the details of the characters' double-anti-characters deliberately in the early stage. Personally, I think that this double-sided character is completely released in front of the audience, achieving the effect of one-stop, no breathing room. It directly brings the audience a sense of psychological catharsis of "destruction after gorgeousness, and silence after brilliance". Aronofsky has spared no effort to create such a high-temperature and high-pressure dramatic climax experience for fans in his video works several times. For example, his "Requiem for a Dream" uses a split-line narrative, and uses parallel montage to frequently and quickly switch and reproduce the plot and pictures; "Pi", like this film, also uses handheld photography to reflect a bumpy, The realism of shaking is used to suppress the audience's vision and create a tense and strange look and feel. At that time, "Black Swan" had a misleading picture again, which is somewhat similar to "The Fountain of Preservation" in his images, which alternated reality and illusion, and finally made the audience through this chaotic mirror image and deliberately loose plot. The mental world that can feel Nina's disintegrating dual personality is like.
It is not only the director who makes the film exude artistic elegance at all times, he just created a superb mirror image and story core, and the lead dancer Nina in the film played by Natalie Portman makes the audience feel even more. Truly stunning beauty. Her black swans and white swans are gorgeous and refined, and her dual-character performances are also tepid. Even, she can interpret the ballet dancer's difficult pointe steps professionally and beautifully, which should be useless in many ways. A stuntman who performs ballet moves that only professional dancers can achieve. Portman is said to have been training professionally in ballet for half a year for the film.
Some critics said that the style and form of the psychological thriller at the end of the film is quite similar to Polanski's "Cold Blood". The two also show the dual inner world of a spiritually sensitive woman. Polanski's film should be a classic and unrepeatable, especially the wonderful sound effects and several super-realistic mysterious pictures in the film to create a frightening experience of psychological fear; Aronofsky's "Black Swan" "There is a scene similar to Polanski's most famous wall with many hands outstretched. The picture is somewhat demonic, it seems to be imitating the master.
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