A white, powdered face, devilish eyes hidden within painted, black-silver swan wings, dark red lips, a crown of twisted metal -- the poster face for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010) certainly does seduce us, even more than it scares us.
Black Swan follows Nina Sayer (Natalie Portman), a professional ballerina, and her desire to become the principal dancer in Thomas Leroy's (Vincent Cassel) new production of Swan Lake. To play the role of the Swan Queen, Nina must learn to play both the white swan and the black swan. A figure of utmost innocence dressed in white and pinkish hues, Nina has little trouble adopting the persona of the white swan, but she must endure the overt sexualization of her body by Thomas and dredge up an inner darkness in order to become the black swan. Along the way, we meet her obsessive mother, Erica Sayers (Barbara Hershey), Beth Macintyre (Winona Ryder), a newly discarded prima ballerina, and Lily (Mila Kunis), a new member of the ballet company who possesses the essence of what Nina believes to be the black swan and who threatens to usurp Nina's role as the Swan Queen.
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