Swan to watch

I went to the movies a while ago and watched Black Swan, so I wanted to do a review.

Black Swan review

Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan is set in the New York City Ballet. Nina (Natalie Portman) plays a young, childlike ballerina who still lives at home with her domineering mother, Erica. When the Ballet decides to retire their aging star, Beth (Winona Ryder) and set up a production of Swan Lake, Nina is chosen to portray the roles of the virginal White Swan and her evil twin, the Black Swan.
The film is essentially about the sacrifices performers have to make for the sake of art and the psysical and psychological pressure put on them. We follow Nina through the dual processes of creation and destruction and as she is spinning into paranoia and jealousy overdrive. The sound editing with enhanced sounds of rasped breath, nail clipping and scratchings is claustrophobic, and if you have an aversion, like me, towards nailinjuries, there are some hard to watch moments. It's one of the more psychosocial and disturbing films I've seen recently, though the quick scares may come off as cheap, it's still horrifying.
All in all, it's dark and disturbing and if you like movies that play with your mind, you should watch it.

At the same time,  if you're already battling a mental disorder/eating disorder or are prone to delusions or hallucinations, this film may affect you more deeply and more horrifyingly than the average person. I actually had to up my dosis of antipsychotic medicin the days after watching it  (may be for several reasons), and I've seen the movie mentioned in Pro-Ana communities.