Day 5: Black Swan

Today I watched Black Swan, and it was ridicilously great! It was mind blowing, I actually walked away saying, "WHAT the heck just happened!?" A ballet company in NYC is performing Black Swan, and the lead ballerina must performe both the white swan and the black swan. Nina Sayers, a dancer, is picked to compete for the part along with other young dancers including newcomer Lily. Nina lives with her mother Erica, a failed dancer who tries to control pretty much all of Nina's life. The ballet director, Thomas Leroy, is reluctant to cast Nina because he claims that she is the perfect White Swan with perfect technique, but that she lacks the dark and passion of the Black Swan. So then during a confrontation over the role Thomas kisses Nina and she bites his lip. This makes him give her the lead role over all the other ballerinas.
Nina begins to go a little crazy, having strong delusions and extremely visual hallucinations! She feels paranoid that Lily, is determined to take the lead away from her. On the other hand Thomas becomes  critical of Nina's frigid dancing as the Black Swan, and tells her that she should stop being so perfect and simply lose herself in the Black Swan role.
The rest of the movie is really really crazy! One night Lily appears at Nina's door and pressures Nina to go out on the town for a bit for a drink. Nina turns her down at first, but after her mother's pushiness to get rid of Lily, she quickly leaves. She comes home drunk, and the next morning she arrives late to rehersal and finds Lily dancing as the Swan Queen in her place. The night before opening, Nina is rehearsing late and continues to hallicinate. When she returns home she sees her mother's paintings speaking and mocking her. She also notices that the rash on her shoulder has worsened, with little black barbs poking through her skin. Nina pulls one of the barbs from her skin and it appears to be a black feather. Nina's eyes appear to turn into reddish swan eyes and her legs violently contort into the shape of a swan's. As she tries to control herself, she falls and knocks herself out on her bedpost. I dont want to spoil anymore! But it gets so much better, and crazier! This movie is rated R, for some sexuality and cussing. But you should watch it because its freakin amazing. I really enjoyed it becuase once again, i walked away saying, "what just happened?!" Dare to watch the trailer?