I have to thank Irene Rodríguez Calzadilla and her fellow 5 of Medicine for the invitation I made to gloss and discuss this movie. And is that Darren Aronofsky is an amazing filmmaker. In this blog we reflected on two of his previous works, "Requiem for a Dream" (2000), based on the novel and the screenplay for Hubert Selby Jr and "The Wrestler" (2008) in which the battered Mickey Rourke, as a legendary phoenix , get reborn from its ashes.
Darren Arofnosky directing the protagonist
Trying to shoot a dance film is a risky venture, and if we do not believe go over "West Side Story" ( Robert Wise, 1961) or "All That Jazz" ( Bob Fosse, 1979). In the present case, the technical deployment we have found a remarkable work of craftsmanship, especially the direction of photography Matthew Libatique the front (a former collaborator of Aronofsky on "Requiem for a Dream"). The cameras often struggle to capture close-ups of the protagonist dynamic, full of drama and emotion. The climax of the expression is reached in a final and best scenes of this film, when Nina is transformed on stage in a majestic Black Swan.
As many others, have suffered the temptation to identify the merit of this film with his leading lady. Natalie Portman Nina is Sayers, a dancer obsessed with beauty and perfection. won the Oscar for Best Actress in its latest edition, the young Israeli actress - U.S. were to lose 10 kg of his already fragile humanity.
This effort Additional has its precedents in other masterful characterizations like that of Robert De Niro in "Raging Bull" ( Martin Scorsese, 1980), forced to gain 25 kilos to get obesity boxer Jake La Motta, of the heartthrob George Clooney increasing 20 kilos for "Syriana" ( Stephen Ganghan , 2005) or the Christian Bale starring in "The Machinist" ( Brad Anderson , 2004), which needed to lose weight 28 kilos to get literally in the shoes of insomniac Trevor Reznik .
But the palm took Jennifer Jason Leigh in the telefilm "The best little girl in the world" ( Sam O'Steen, 1981), for which he lost 40 kilos!.
This effort Additional has its precedents in other masterful characterizations like that of Robert De Niro in "Raging Bull" ( Martin Scorsese, 1980), forced to gain 25 kilos to get obesity boxer Jake La Motta, of the heartthrob George Clooney increasing 20 kilos for "Syriana" ( Stephen Ganghan , 2005) or the Christian Bale starring in "The Machinist" ( Brad Anderson , 2004), which needed to lose weight 28 kilos to get literally in the shoes of insomniac Trevor Reznik .
But the palm took Jennifer Jason Leigh in the telefilm "The best little girl in the world" ( Sam O'Steen, 1981), for which he lost 40 kilos!.
Nina Sayers Natalie Portman is
This film is short on scenarios . Nina practically moves between home and the Lincoln Center , the common house of the Metropolitan Opera, Ballet and Philharmonic Orchestra New York . Their home environment is synonymous with claustrophobia, turning about dance and the omnipresence of Erica Sayers ( Barbara Hershey), the mother determined to revive his frustrated career as a dancer in the person of his daughter Nina. Every night, the girl is sleeping with tune "Swan Lake" that derives from an ancient music box.
However, this film is rich in ambiguities and mirrors, which abound in the home and in the rehearsal rooms. The aesthetic appeal and narrative Doppelgänger used to generate some doubts in the viewer: is it real or imagined everything that happens in this Nina psychological thriller?
try to dissect and over the director's job. "The Swan Lake" is the first of the ballets composed by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), which chronicles the misadventures of Odette, the swan queen enchanted by the evil magician Rothbart . Only love will be able to break the spell that holds captive Odette and her companions, swans by day and beautiful girls after sunset. Prince Siegfried falls in love with Odette invited to a party at the palace with the intention of announcing their engagement. But the evil magician causes his confusion by passing to his daughter Odile for Odette. In this film, ballet, Odette chosen as the final sacrifice of the drama. Lo duality between the White Swan - Odette, and the Black Swan - Odile, conflicting roles to be embroidered as prima ballerina Nina.
's tenacity Nina, the stress tests carried to the limit (up to physical exhaustion and psychological havoc), continuous monitoring of a repressive mother, inflexible Thomas Leroy ( Vincent Cassel), the cynical and infuriating director ballet, determined to get the favors of a young woman who has not yet discovered their own sexuality, are a set of circumstances that make up the pathology of Nina.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS ...
From the medical point of view, can we try to understand what conditions might have our protagonist?
During the opening scenes, we see the frugal breakfast offers her mother Nina: half a grapefruit ... The extreme thinness of the girl would make us suspect a possible eating disorder . Throughout the film, we see that Nina is enclosed to vomit repeatedly on different occasions.
Other features observed in this character would lean towards a paranoid personality disorder , especially by its strong tendency to excessive isolation and suspicion. The first dancers have the right (or punishment) of an individual dressing room, apart from the rest of the company. In the solitude of the cabin, and in the small rehearsal room at home enabled, Nina spends countless hours in front of the mirror to be characterized as the Swan Queen and to perfect their technique.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS ...
From the medical point of view, can we try to understand what conditions might have our protagonist?
During the opening scenes, we see the frugal breakfast offers her mother Nina: half a grapefruit ... The extreme thinness of the girl would make us suspect a possible eating disorder . Throughout the film, we see that Nina is enclosed to vomit repeatedly on different occasions.
Other features observed in this character would lean towards a paranoid personality disorder , especially by its strong tendency to excessive isolation and suspicion. The first dancers have the right (or punishment) of an individual dressing room, apart from the rest of the company. In the solitude of the cabin, and in the small rehearsal room at home enabled, Nina spends countless hours in front of the mirror to be characterized as the Swan Queen and to perfect their technique.
Another hallmark for of a possible personality disorder is the belief that the other dancers talk about it and criticize their backs, even going to conspire against him, suspicion focused especially on his rival and substitute, suggestive Lily ( Mila Kunis ). Friends in real life, it seems that Natalie Portman's own remarkably influenced the recruitment to the beautiful Ukrainian actress for that role. Gradually, as we all checking approach attempts to their privacy are considered by Nina as part of a conspiracy against him, even to fit expressions and comments in the conviction of his delirium persecutory.
Mila Kunis is Lily
People with paranoid personality disorder often have no friends, as in the present case. When Leroy Thomas takes Nina to his luxury apartment with the intent to seduce her, the choreographer is not surprised that she did not have a boyfriend, and his experience as a lover is almost nil.
Diagnostic A second possibility is that the protagonist suffers from a delusional disorder . For this assumption we rely on your belief of being persecuted and loved at the same time, personalizing both suspected in Thomas Leroy as Lily, but the storyline of the film presents us with serious doubts about what happened the night that both young immersed in the frenzy of New York night, by the interference of abuse and alcoholism and the consumption of ecstasy . The stimulating effect and disinhibition caused by the ingestion of MDMA in Nina are portrayed in the film with great accuracy. Its mixed with alcohol is particularly dangerous. Experts have described a series of neuropsychological disturbances associated with consumption of this drug, such as altering the temporal and visual perception, loss of sense of reality, emotional lability and the onset or exacerbation of delusions of persecution.
Vincent Cassel is Thomas Leroy
Nina estimate less likely to suffer a esquizofenia paranoid, even though in this film could perceive any sign of it. One characteristic of this disease is the presence of delusions systematic or frequent hallucinations related to a single topic, in this case, hearing voices disparaging. Nina does not hear voices, although they perceived that she believes derisive laughter from the rest of the dancers. Visual hallucinations are limited, restricted to the emergence of Beth with her legs completely shattered by injuries in a car accident, or the portraits he paints his mother becoming a terrifying life.
could not finish this paragraph without making a brief reference to work done by Wynona Ryder in the role of the former ballet diva, Beth Macintyre. Due to age will be doomed to end her successful career and will also resign by deprivation of the attentions of her former lover and perhaps director, choreographer Leroy, who has found in Nina a new figure to replace it on stage and in his heart.
Wynona Ryder is Beth Macintyre
Without proper treatment, people suffering from paranoid schizophrenia may be too anxious, irritable, be litigants and even aggressive. All this is evident in the scene where Nina tries to prevent his mother come into her room: Erica ends with a broken hand. The self-injury is also evident in this work, playing with an extremely unpleasant for the spectators, the lesions in the toenails and fingernails.
Anecdotally keep the annoying part of the public memory of leaving the projection room during "Crime of Cuenca ( Pilar Miró, 1979), when we reached the scene in which a prisoner was suffering as a punishment the uprooting of nails with pliers ... By the way, Bob Barnes, the character played by George Clooney in "Syriana" also tear a fingernail and sadistic torture.
Unlike people who suffer from a delusional disorder, affected with schizophrenia often see their work skills, social relationships and their own care. These latter features do not seem so clear in "Black Swan."
we also casts doubt on the physical cause of eczema and scratches displayed on the back of Nina. In susceptible individuals, the stress can cause skin lesions such as urticaria and psychogenic dermatitis, especially if it is permanent and sustainable. Other possibilities are open to learn that the mother is witness to the constant scratching of Nina while sleeping.
For those interested in reading other reviews of this film:
Anecdotally keep the annoying part of the public memory of leaving the projection room during "Crime of Cuenca ( Pilar Miró, 1979), when we reached the scene in which a prisoner was suffering as a punishment the uprooting of nails with pliers ... By the way, Bob Barnes, the character played by George Clooney in "Syriana" also tear a fingernail and sadistic torture.
Unlike people who suffer from a delusional disorder, affected with schizophrenia often see their work skills, social relationships and their own care. These latter features do not seem so clear in "Black Swan."
we also casts doubt on the physical cause of eczema and scratches displayed on the back of Nina. In susceptible individuals, the stress can cause skin lesions such as urticaria and psychogenic dermatitis, especially if it is permanent and sustainable. Other possibilities are open to learn that the mother is witness to the constant scratching of Nina while sleeping.
For those interested in reading other reviews of this film:
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