Lily buys drinks and meets with some guys. The metaphor of mirrors as reflections of a fragmented self is also a key visual theme in Black Swan, thanks to Nina's unreliable perspective. Shortly after, Nina is shocked to see that he has cast her as the Swan Queen. Erica cuts Nina's nails violently, hurting her daughter's hand where Nina hallucinated her earlier injury. At home, she rehearses the choreography she stumbled through, but cracks her big toenail in half. After her act in Swan Lake, the last words Nina whispers to herself were “ I was perfect, ” while slowly losing consciousness from a self-inflicted stab wound. Scène. While she's changing, Lily arrives at her door to congratulate her for her incredible job. This process is slow and painful, giving her severe psychic problems. endstream endobj 365 0 obj<> endobj 366 0 obj<> endobj 367 0 obj<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/ExtGState<>>> endobj 368 0 obj<> endobj 369 0 obj[/ICCBased 373 0 R] endobj 370 0 obj<> endobj 371 0 obj<> endobj 372 0 obj<>stream Thomas tells her everything is fine and she needs to get some rest. There is a lot about Black Swan we as the audience simply can't trust. This feeling of unease deepens when her mother Erica enters. This brings us to Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. Thomas organizes a gala to say goodbye to Beth and introduce Nina as the new Swan Lake lead. The Black Swan is a fantastic film, directed by Darren Aronofsky in 2010. "I'm nothing." Moderato (108 bars) 28. 0 The Black Swan and Psychological Illness. "Swan Lake" made its American debut with a 1940 performance by the San Francisco Ballet. He calls her his little princess, just as he did with Beth, the first and probably last time Nina hears that potent pet name. On the subway home, an elderly man sexually harasses Nina and instead of moving away from him, she just watches. 0000002367 00000 n Nina arrives late to see Lily playing her role, deepening her paranoia. This is a spectacular finale to Swan Lake by the American Ballet Theater will Gillian Murphy and Angel Corella. Thomas forcibly kisses her, and she bites him in retaliation. 0000001488 00000 n Nina throws Lily into the mirror and stabs her in the gut with a shard of glass. Temps de lecture : 1 minute The dancers reach for the sky, floating inches off the floor like delicate angels, only touching down on Earth to bless the rest of us mortals with their exceptional beauty and grace. However, she has competition in newcomer Lily (Mila Kunis). Nina is a grown woman, yet her mother insists on undressing her when she comes home from work. Nina wakes the next morning looking stressed. The company's director Thomas springs an unannounced audition for the role of the Swan Queen, which requires the dancer to portray both the virginal White Swan, Odette, and the sensual Black Swan, Odile. Let it go!" I would like to discuss the final scene of the film, since I feel like the entire movie really leads up to the ending. She smashes her ballerina music box and jams all her stuffed toys down the garbage chute. Imprecise, but effortless. But throughout Black Swan, Nina's mother is constantly nagging her about the injury. Black Swan's use of mirrors and doubles, not just in Nina's hallucinations but also in the use of Swan Lake as the movie's central ballet, keeps us wondering which Nina is real — if any of them are. %PDF-1.6 %���� The true Black Swan of this film is Nina’s mental illness. Lily goes back home with Nina, who bars her door so they can hook up. Nina is hesitant but indulges finally. Erica, fuming, doesn't bother to wake her daughter up for rehearsal. Nina has a small breakdown when she finds out Lily is officially her alternate. At home, Nina's mom helps her undress and sees the wound on her back is worse. startxref It features Prince Siegfried and a lovely swan princess named Odette. The next day, Nina puts on a see-through shirt and red lipstick, trying to convince Thomas she's right for the role. Taking a break from the party in the bathroom, Nina notices she has a hangnail. Compliant and baby-voiced Nina is in a state of arrested development, enforced by her mother's firm, smiling control. the now familiar Variation of Odile of The Black Swan Pas de Deux was orchestrated by Drigo from Tchaikovsky's Opus 72 for Piano - No. June 1, 2020 by the Editors Leave a Comment A fascinating analysis unpacking the meaning of the final scenes … Lily finds Nina crying and says Thomas is being too hard on her. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. Look at many of the movies you love and about the 20-minute mark is when the main story conflict announces itself. Erica notices a small scratch on Nina's back, which Nina brushes off as nothing. 17 (Scène: La sortie des invités et la valse) was omitted. 364 0 obj <> endobj The scratch on Nina's back is seen, grown far deeper and more serious. info)), Op. It centers on a performance by Natalie Portman that is nothing short of heroic, and mirrors the conflict of good and evil in Tchaikovsky's ballet “Swan Lake.” It is one thing to lose yourself in your art. <<5F8EBDBAF1DBF143980EBCE08E8B2C4E>]>> 12 L'Espiègle, which is still danced today by nearly every Ballerina as Odile. "What did you do?!" 0000006329 00000 n Everyone tells her she was beyond amazing, and she kisses Thomas on the mouth in triumph. 0000000016 00000 n 0000002444 00000 n Black Swan does not shy away from showing these beautiful and grotesque forces, nor how they come together to form ballet as a whole. Having nailed her performance, Nina returns to her dressing room to change for the final act, in which she will depict the White Swan's suicide. But when someone knocks on the bathroom door, the injury disappears. For example, we can't exactly know what is truly going on between Nina and her mother, since Nina might be making up certain events for her own benefit. From the very start, there is something off about Nina. Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskySwan Lake Op. After her final jump onto a concealed mattress, the wound in her belly pours blood, turning her White Swan costume maroon. Featuring a cast including Barbara Hershey, Vincent Cassel,  Winona Ryder, and Mila Kunis, Black Swan is a twisted mirror of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet, all the way down to its disturbing finale. Can you imagine your mom's bedroom being filled wall to wall with terrible portraits of you? Scène finale. Scène. � �����8�T0�30+� L@l�g30��I �� ��Q Thomas shouts when he realizes the extent of her injury. Lily thinks that he would call Nina that soon. 0000002090 00000 n After going through horrible scenes, Nina finds herself performing the Black Swan to perfection but then falls dead during the final scene, confirming that she was slowly killing herself as the show approached. Nina is a dancer in an unnamed Manhattan ballet company, all of whom are surprised to find out that lead dancer Beth is being replaced. Erica's unhealthy obsession with her daughter is as distressing as Nina's own psychological break — maybe even worse, as we don't know what's at the root of Erica's own mental illness. Nina is naive. Later, to get her to loosen up, Thomas gives Nina a "homework assignment," telling her to explore her sexuality on her own. At home, Nina is having more breaks with reality as she sees blood in her bathwater that isn't actually there. It's virtually impossible to know what exactly was going on with the ballet as well. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of all time. Nina confronts a dismissive Lily, and her paranoia grows that Lily wants her part. "You've been scratching yourself again! 0000001241 00000 n This final scene shows how damaging the forced need and desire to be perfect is. She wants to tell Beth she understands now how Beth felt when she was replaced, and that she sees Beth as "perfect." "You're stiff like a dead corpse! Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое озеро / Lebedinoye ozero), Op. Even so, Portman went on to confide that the masturbation sequence doesn't even take the cake as the most unsettling "Black Swan" scene to watch. 375 0 obj<>stream It's a transcendent art, but it's also a punishing physical journey. What this film does so cleverly is illustrate this battle through a ballet dancer who gets the opportunity to play the lead role in Swan Lake . 0000002054 00000 n 364 12 A 2010 Psychological Thriller by Darren Aronofsky, and boy, is it ever a Darren Aronofsky film.. After years of working in the background, the innocent and fragile ballet dancer Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) has the chance to become the star of her troupe in a production of Swan Lake.The role requires the lead to play both the delicate White Swan and the dark and sensual Black Swan. Erica tries to celebrate Nina's casting by guilting her daughter into eating cake. Erica claims Nina ruined her career, and she doesn't want the same thing to happen to her. Thomas shouts at her. Be it schizophrenia, or multiple personality disorder, or whatever else you want to call it, this is the only problem in her life. Later, Thomas and Nina watch Lily dancing. Not allowing Nina any privacy, even a simple lock on her door, is also troubling. I thought you were done with this, Nina!" We learn that the scratches on Nina's back aren't actually real when we see her skin reflected perfectly unblemished in the mirror. He cruelly says, "That was me seducing you, when it needs to be the other way around." She sees her toes fusing together like webbed feet. In conclusion, this scene is crucial in displaying Nina’s final metamorphosis into Odile, the Black Swan. En supposant que la scène finale de Black Swan n'est pas une hallucination, Nina s'est blessée un certain temps plus tôt dans sa loge et a dansé deux sections entières comme le cygne noir, puis le cygne blanc, qui inclus un changement de costume. "I felt it," an exceedingly pale Nina says. Beth stabs herself in the face multiple times with a nail file. Black Swan is darkly radiant. Here is the ending of Black Swan explained, in all its sinister glory. If Lily didn't actually meet Erica, we might even consider that she's not there at all. The wound on her back is growing. 25. Beth is  furious and makes no secret of it. She also finds out she hallucinated having sex with Lily the night before. As Thomas had said, she really was her own worst enemy. Nina’s disordered relationship with her roommate mother Erica, played by Barbara Hershey, sets the stage for Nina’s psychological breakdown. %%EOF Swan Lake. Back at Nina's apartment, we discover just how unhealthily obsessed Erica is with her daughter: Her bedroom is filled with terrible portraits she's made of Nina through the years. She pulls on it; it tears and bleeds profusely. Watch Nev Schulman’s Black Swan Performance on DWTS ... WandaVision: The Finale's End-Credits Scenes Hint at the Next Big Films of Marvel's Phase 4 by Mekishana Pierre 1 day ago As Nina succinctly describes the ballet, "It's about a girl who gets turned into a swan, and she needs love to break the spell, but her prince falls for the wrong girl so she kills herself." Right at the height of their conflict, Lily comes to the apartment to apologize and Nina leaves with her, even though their dress rehearsal is the next day. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music.In 1871 he wrote a little ballet about swans for his nieces and nephews.He used some of the music from this ballet for Swan Lake.The story of the ballet is based on a German fairy tale.This tale was probably tweaked by Tchaikovsky and his friends during the ballet's early discussion stages. As rivalry between the two dancers transforms into a twisted friendship, Nina’s dark side begins to emerge and threatens to destroy her. Since Black Swan centers Nina, and Nina quickly begins losing her mind, viewers have to do a great deal of reading between the lines to understand her ultimate fate. Scène. Nina cuts her finger on purpose and seems to delight in the act. x�b```f``�������9 60�;�$r4&9f�ڦ͹F����7�c��]���1}Ѩ������ۆg�Dj4D9dx�4�5Ji�H���劼��f�⫐}��0�Q���V7�)B3��5�$�=��|�� /��� �73�����h�0l�v�~pY�t�6� Allegro agitato (96 bars) 29. Share the best GIFs now >>> Portman's ballerina loses her mind. �>���3�r�00hr�L(c8����*�;����U51 .�����괟y9{���!���`6J�L������6- L���8�`N�i33!P!0� &�&S�hu�a��f�^�c2u�fW@�-S͛�j�TV�D�����X4�]ȒD����3�l$� 8��v��BL10t��`G1J �..���L 1[t ���:���I The dark drama The Black Swan is built around the psychological illness of its protagonist, Nina Sayers, beautifully and disturbingly portrayed by Natalie Portman. At home, Nina's mom asks whether Thomas had "tried anything with her," and they have a huge fight about Erica's life choices. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Natalie Portman Black Swan Lesbian Scene animated GIFs to your conversations. But as her blood gouts, she smiles beatifically. Nina runs away terrified, but in the elevator, she discovers the bloody nail file in her own hands. Nina is one of the dancers selected to try out, and as the White Swan, she excels. Nina pulls herself together and brings the house down with her glorious final act. Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan is a haunting and tragic tale of Nina (Natalie Portman) descending into madness, but does she actually die after her final dance performance? The screen goes dark. xref Black Swan: Ending Scene, I Was Perfect (Movie Clip) - YouTube H��V�n�8}�W��Y$�%_�. This is not a good start to the day,  and Nina struggles in rehearsal. By the time she performs in Swan Lake, we see her skin is absolutely perfect. 20, Act IV: 29. There are no singular Ninas — only hodge-podge collections of anxiety and talent. "If I were only casting the White Swan, she would be yours," Thomas tells her. Erica shouts, but when she tries to help, Nina repeatedly slams her mother's hand in a door. Take the scratches on Nina's back. Lily is ready to take on her role, but Nina threatens Thomas with another scandal if he doesn't let her dance. "I'm not perfect," Beth hisses. He sends home the male leads and tries to infuse some passion into Nina's dancing by making out with her. "Watch the way she moves. In a shocking turn of events, Nina realizes that she didn't actually kill Lily. Throughout the movie, Nina develops into the Black Swan, leaving her childness behind and maturing. v��P��H�.��М �����-�3a����08b��c�.�@� ��,�����Û����
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