What I thought was the most interesting about "Black Swan" was it's perfect casting. Sometimes a person is so perfect for a role you would've thought they wrote the script with the actor in mind. Maybe they did.
Natalie Portman plays Nina, a ballerina who so desperately wants to play the lead in her companies ballet Black Swan. In the ballet she must play both a good princess type and an evil temptress. The head of the company (played by Vincent Cassel) thinks she's perfect as a good girl but that she's so wrong as the bad girl. Who actually would be a great bad girl would be new comer Lily (played by Mila Kunis)
*BTW- Yeah, Mila did a nice acting job in this role ...but Oscar? Uh, No.
Why didn't they just hire both girls for both roles? They look a lot alike!
But anyways, basically the movie is about how Nina tortures herself trying to be both sides of the swan role. She also has a creepy mom.
About my perfect casting comment... Natalie Portman comes off (to me) as a very sweet, innocent type of person... just like Nina... and the fact that she went THERE in this film... it was incredible to watch.
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