Got dragged to this by one of my film snob friends. It's amazing. Way more exciting, intense and disturbing than a movie about goddamn ballerinas has any right to be.
No tits, maybe a glimpse though.
Tons of super hot lesbo action and natalie fingering the fuck out of herself.
On paper, there are commonalities in the plotline, but they're not even in the same genre, really. In terms of film making, this movie is trying very hard to be every David Cronenberg movie. It's a psychological horror/thriller.
Body horror, conflating of sex and violence, bloody visceral imagery, existential crisis pivoting on themes of physical and psychological transformation... I mean, really every one of Cronenberg's trademarks is here in this movie in full swing.
Overall, Black Swan is good but not great. Both Aronofsky and Cronenberg have done better, and it doesn't resonate emotionally as well as his earlier movies, but it's still a tense, atmospheric movie that I enjoyed watching.If you're asking if it's a visually-driven movie, I'd say yes.
Last edited by Frogacuda; 29 Dec 2010 at 09:06 AM.
Uh, that post didn't say anything about how "story driven" the movie is. Whatever that means.
The Wrestler wasn't "story driven"?
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