We can even spot Rothbart on the crowd, and we can see Nina with her Black Swan makeup on. We again see her face on Lily's body, or we see her face multiplied. When she goes out with Lily, while we're dancing, there's several more of this subtle images. This means that she sees some of herself on Lily, her Black Swan recently awakened. Aronofsky plays here with subtlety, by putting Nina's face on her, far enough so we can't instantly tell. Several times in the movie does nina see Lily from far away, but is not until she comes closer that her face is actually Lily's. She's a Black Swan, she's what Nina is trying to become. T he Black Swan's feathers are starting to show up beneath her back (symbolicly, but also literally in her future alucinations), and it's not a pleasant feeling. Influenced by her mom, she tries to hold back her natural impulse to mature. Her mother is the force taking her back and holding her from maturity. However, when she sees her mother she stops, ashamed. You can see this in this shot, where all her room is childish, but between the plushies you can see a Black Swan, in contrast with the light color of the rest. When this happens, the Black Swan starts to awake. The director tells her to masturbate, wich she tries to do. When the director kisses her, her impulsive side awakens, she bites him.Īfter this, the sexual maduration starts. As the director says to her, perfection sometimes isn't about control, but rather about losing yourself. The first step to becoming the Black Swan is giving up control. This process is slow and painful, giving her severe psychic problems. Throughout the movie, Nina develops into the Black Swan, leaving her childness behind and maturing. She's however unable to do this job, as she's still a child. This one is wild, free, sensual, all the opposite of the White Swan. Then, her job demands her to be the Black Swann aswell. Her mother will defend this "innocence" and "pureness" at all costs. We see her at the beggining of the movie, a pretty shy girl, her room full of pink and plushies. The White Swan is pure, fragile, innocent, it symbolizes the child side of Nina. A motif of perfection can also be apreciated. There's also the recurrent, easier to see theme of obsession with work, and the demands of the world of arts. It's pretty obvious, in my opinion, that the main theme of this movie is that of the protagonist, Nina, undergoing a psychosexual maduration, evolving from an undeveloped child to a full woman. I'm gonna dissect this movie first in general lines, then I'm gonna get into particulars.įirst of all, the themes. I'll give my personal analysis of the movie, and you're encouraged to post yours, or a critique to mine, to get the discussion rolling. I've noticed there's not a single discussion of this great movie in this subreddit, but rather just comparations to Aronofsky's other works, or Red Shoes, so I might aswell start one.
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