New York subway, Nina, who just got out of the station to start a day of rehearsal, hurried.
She tightened her hair and held her arms, trying to get the last bit of temperature from the pink coat and fluffy scarf.
Recently, in order to re-arrange Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet "Swan Lake", huge mental pressure has enveloped the entire dance troupe. After Nina wants to stand firmly in the C position and perform the swan dance perfectly, she must play two roles. The horns simultaneously interpret the white swan and the black swan.
Under the unfriendly guidance of the artistic director Thomas, Nina is gloomy and her spirit is always tense.
That night, something strange happened! On the
subway platform came a woman who was exactly the same as herself, but she was completely opposite to Nina’s temperament, black trench coat, long hair cape, aggressive eyes...
Finally, under long-term high pressure, Nina suffered Got schizophrenia.
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Even if the main line of the movie is blurred, the heroine Nina tears her hands, grows feathers, large-scale bed scenes, black swan solo dances, etc., everyone will never forget.
At the age of 29, Natalie Portman contributed film-historical-level acting, combining cowardice and viciousness, living good and evil on one face at the same time, winning the Oscar queen of the year.
Coincidentally, the goddess met Benjamin, the choreographer and dancer of the film, fell in love and got engaged, and now has two children.
This "Black Swan" is full of fame and won 5 nominations for the 83rd Oscar, and 460,000 people on Douban scored 8.5 points. But it can definitely be regarded as the "Don't dare to watch the second time" series. When we talk about it, the pain is imprinted in our hearts. Director Darren is especially good at destructive themes. He uses the rush of the plot and nowhere to breathe. The absent hint dubbing portrays the trajectory of Nina sliding to the dark side to the audience.
Nina, who has been immersed in the role of the white swan for a long time, believes in Yugong Yishan’s chicken soup, she does not want to live the life of her predecessor Bess tomorrow, she will become a new generation of swan dance queen. Working overtime, in the school's rehearsal hall, on the dancing mat at home, on the walking ladder between classes, and the empty compartment of the last subway train, Nina devoted all her time to her role.
was born in a single-parent family, with a silent, cautious, and kind character. Nina is the best candidate for the white swan;
, which represents the insidious, sexy, seductive, and aggressive black swan, has always been a hurdle for Nina.
uses the words of art director Thomas: Nina, your body is perfect, but if you want to play a good black swan, you must open your body and explode the original passion of life.
Thinking back to Nina's mother's reaction, she can understand what "opening the body" means to her.
is always a black-clad mother with a long face as an ascetic; an unexpected pregnancy will ruin her career, and she is worried that her daughter will go her own way, and she is strictly forbidden to contact any opposite sex; buying cakes to celebrate her daughter, Nina will not follow Put the cake in the trash can; and, the ubiquitous phone bombing...
In this extremely insecure and talkative environment, the frowning Nina could not complete the job left by Thomas: Today Go home late to masturbate and relax yourself.
Thomas used large-scale physical contact with external stimuli;
Nina also began to develop herself in a closed bathtub;
, however, all had little effect.
This is like letting Muslim women under the black burqa put on bikinis and dance in the square. After a short period of excitement, they can only look divine. Ignoring the passion passed by the black swan dance, and forcibly practicing the black swan's movements, Nina's right foot was also unfortunately injured. The performance date of
is approaching day by day, knowing that her shortcomings can't be improved, the feeling of powerlessness and illness aggravated Nina's mental pressure. She was nervous and anxious, she blamed herself for hurting others...
At this time, Lily from the dance group appeared.
's free posture, relaxed tone, unbridled style of life, and amorous Lily all have their own black swan attributes.
From the first sight of Lily, Nina was instinctively alert. What happened next on
confirmed the Nina incidentFirst guess: Lily wants to replace herself and become a swan dancer at the last moment.
Nina inadvertently complained about Thomas’ teaching method, Lily immediately gave a short report; one night in the bar, Lily put psychedelic drugs in the glass, causing Nina to delay the next day of rehearsal; after Lily seduce Thomas, Thomas announced that Lily had become Nina was on the bench; Lily whispered with the supporting actor before the game, causing her to fail to complete the required action... The long-term tense spirit of
was finally crushed at the last moment. On the night of
performance, when Nina returned to the dressing room, "Black Swan" Lily was ready to take the stage. The collapsed Nina slammed Lily onto the mirror, and the mirror shattered. The white swan killed the "black swan" with a fragment of the mirror.
At this moment, Nina has been kidnapped by the black swan; on the contrary, the black swan has completely controlled Nina's body and soul.
She dragged Lily into the dressing room, panting and trembling, her eyes turning blood red.
returned to the front desk, Nina's performance was surprisingly good in the clip of the death of the black swan. Swan feathers grew on his arms, and the black wings grew wildly in response to the music, becoming more and more arrogant and more arbitrary. The huge shadow of the swan and the dancer who held up their heads complemented each other, and the pressure accumulated in Nina's heart was released at this moment.
In fact, the dream is awake and the blood is not stopped.
Nina, who returned to the locker room, found that the person who had just been dragged into the locker room was not Lily. Nightclubs, drug addiction, sex, and all Lily's villains did not exist. Everything was just her own fantasy.
But the mirror in front of me was broken. Who was the one who died just now?
Nina slowly lowered her head and pulled out the mirror fragment from her panting belly.
everything, the truth is revealed.
Actually, Nina at this moment has been very finely divided. When she played the black swan, she imagined a free, indulgent, and evil self. All the violent incidents that happened before actually acted on her. With the last jump of
, the white swan all over the body, with the blood stains left on the abdomen of the black swan, gained peace. After experiencing both mental and physical hardships, Nina finally let go-
"I feel perfect"
Nina at this moment is indeed perfect.
But we can't help asking, is this way of treating people as scalp numb is too cruel?
Nina went through three stages of hard work, breakthrough transformation, and self-destruction in order to perform the swan dance perfectly. On the surface, she completed the performance under tremendous mental pressure and achieved success, but what about her future stage career do? Do you have to cut out a Lily every time and then cut yourself a few times?
Art is not life, there is no absolute perfection in reality.
In class, the teacher educates us to get full marks; during work, the leader tells us that everything is fine; chicken soup will equate halfway with failure. In a society where the fault tolerance rate is getting lower and lower, beautiful words such as "perfect", "perfectionism", and "pursuit of excellence" encourage people to constantly criticize themselves. The less perfect, the more they must pursue, a vicious circle. When Nina's role is put into reality, the ultimate destination can only be a mental hospital or suicide.
On the stage of life, each of us is Nina.
In the beginning, we were all the kind and harmless white swans. In order to achieve perfection, we forced ourselves to become another person who violated our heart and slid to the dark side. A job, obviously I don’t like it, but it’s hard to give up; a love affair has long been tasteless, but it is still obsessed...superstitious "persistence" and "perseverance", refusing to adapt and transform, and refuse to admit it for life The initial mistake.
The speed without direction is a mistake. If you don't want to move forward with a heavy load, you must learn to stop loss in time.
Life is short and precious. May everyone live as they are.