I want you to go home tonight, and touch yourself.

I feel compelled. I had great expectations for the film Black Swan, as any devoted fan of Tchaikovsky should. The cast felt right, Natalie Portman proved to be the appropriate choice. For fuck sakes, they even had Winona Ryder. So what the hell went wrong?


Aaron Aronofsky is a fucking pervert.
Natalie Portman finally starred in a watchable film, the story had great potential to become a cult classic thriller, the acting was even spot on...but the story just failed due to so much unnecessary fillers. A third of the film was completely pointless. The sex scene, the drug scene, the hospital scene, the utter failure to explain the internal conflict that was probably caused by a possibly psycho mother. It was all very unclear.
There was little consistency, and almost no character development. I can forgive the choreography, it was intelligently shot. The visuals were beautiful, and the timing was very well played out. It just didn't feel satisfying, it didn't live up to the hype of being a truly disturbing psychological thriller. As the story progressed, the outcomes become more predictable. It left all of the wrong elements to the imagination.
I must admit though, I was completely mesmerized by the weeping paintings. Very arousing.
Black Swan tried too hard to be an artistic film, when it should have focused on telling a story.
This is why I don't like Aronofsky, he transforms great ideas of Human desperation, into mediocre adaptations. There is always devoid in his work.
Oh, will there ever be a female counterpart to Patrick Bateman?!