{"id":22,"date":"2011-06-12T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2011-06-25T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:07:21","slug":"black-swan-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Black Swan, mostly"},"content":{"rendered":"

To start, it\u2019s official.\u00a0 Darren Arronofsky is a genius.\u00a0 He\u2019s made great movies before.\u00a0 Requiem for a Dream<\/em> was freakishly good and The Wrestler<\/em> was simply amazing.\u00a0 You might think I\u2019m biased or predisposed to like an Arronofsky offering.\u00a0 You might think I\u2019m one of those fake asshat internet reviewers who plays favorites.\u00a0 Well, I both like M. Night Shymalan and think Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/em> was one of the best animated shows of the last 15 years.\u00a0 And I HATED The Last Airbender<\/em>.\u00a0 There was some potential there (which actually made it more painful to watch), mostly in the supporting actors (except for the retard who played Soka); but an epic failure is still failure.\u00a0 A steaming pile of shit doesn\u2019t smell any better for being epic.\u00a0 But I digress\u2026<\/p>\n

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Anyway, though I\u2019ve enjoyed his other work, Black Swan<\/em> is hard evidence of Arronofsky\u2019s genius.\u00a0 I hate ballet.\u00a0 I mean no disrespect to those gifted athlete\/artists who dedicate their lives to it; nor to those who can appreciate it.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve never been able to appreciate people jumping around in costumes(says the former pro wrestling fan and current hypocrite).\u00a0 When I say I hate ballet, I\u2019m more recognizing a flaw in myself than mocking the art form.\u00a0 I just have no appreciation for it.\u00a0 It bores the living crap out of me.<\/p>\n

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So when I\u2019m sitting on the very edge of my seat during a movie about ballet; THAT is a fucking achievement in storytelling.\u00a0 I was utterly engrossed in a story about a prestigious New York ballet company\u2019s production of Swan Lake<\/em> and the struggle of a new headlining ballerina to get into her dual roles in the production.\u00a0 ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT.<\/p>\n

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At its core, the film is about artistic interpretation and what an artist has to go through.\u00a0 It\u2019s much like The Wrestler<\/em> in that sense.\u00a0 The art forms are different and the tone of Black Swan<\/em> is much darker; but at their core, both movies are about what people go through to express their art.\u00a0 (yes, I used the word art to describe pro wrestling; its not the canvas its what\u2019s on it, long live Sting!) In this ballet, specific feelings have to be conveyed through the dancer to the audience.\u00a0 Natalie Portman is a ballerina who is called to convey, through her dancing, complex emotions that she (she\u2019s basically been homeschooled and still lives with her mother) has never actually experienced.\u00a0 Through her journey to imagine these emotions in order to express them on stage; her hold on reality begins to weaken.<\/p>\n

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Vincent Cassel is great as a (possibly insane) driven director and Mila Kunis co stars as 180 proof sex.<\/p>\n

You will involuntarily attempt to cover your eyes at least once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To start, it\u2019s official.\u00a0 Darren Arronofsky is a genius.\u00a0 He\u2019s made great movies before.\u00a0 Requiem for a Dream was freakishly good and The Wrestler was simply amazing.\u00a0 You might think I\u2019m biased or predisposed to like an Arronofsky offering.\u00a0 You … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}