I'm not going to sum up the movie, dear wiki wiki is here to spoil it for you. Instead, I'll be boring you with a very interesting theory about it. (Of course, this is not the only interpretation of the movie that can be done. That movie is quite a good one, and good fictions have many, many ways to screw you up)
We could start with a trailer based opinion: Nina, the dancer who plays the Swan Queen, is schyzophrenic. However, that's just too easy for me.
Let's dig deeper.
What is Nina doing? Duplicating herself (through mirrors, through other women, through Lily) and, eventually, turning into a darker, more erotic, more dangerous, woman.
How is she doing it? By stuffing fluffy teddy bears in the bin, screaming at her mom, banging doors and strangers, stuffing herself with alcool and "ecstasy".
What is the result of all that? The death of the White Swan, and some phalic symbolism of stabbing, bleedind and loosing one's "whiteness" (or, purity, or, virginity, or, "flower"; call it as you wish I frankly don't care).
Translation, please?
Nina is, violentely but surely, turning into a woman.
And you know what's cool?
Her mummy eventually feels glad about it.
Which means the only one who was actually preventing her from growing up, from living, was herself.
So, there. Among many interpretation, I think that Black Swan is about a sweet little girl turning into a woman.
A little dancer climbing on stage to take over the main part.
A bit like the Little Riding Hood, somehow.
The first scene shows a delicate white swan being chased by a scary man, even though most "ennemies" to Nina are female. This man looks like a beast, a bird with a pointy mask (watch out for the phallic symbol!), and chases her a bit like the wolf did with the Red Riding One. Plus, Thomas and the bird man are once associated both together and to sex in the movie, Thomas then turning into the male who's helping awake Nina's sleeping darkness. The last scene reminds us of the Little Riding Hood being "eaten" by the wolf, only there the metaphor would be of the swan having successfully been... "stabbed"...
Moreover, Nina learns her powers of woman, powers of eros and thanatos, from her "alternate", Lily, who's one of many duplicates of her mirrored image.
She is, litteraly (and eww by the way), peeling her old self off, changing skins, growing wings, and inheritating womanhood from her erlders, both Beth (as she takes her part) and her mom (as she chooses and succeeds in her ex dancing career ).
This little and brilliant explaination allowing me to safely answer to the very final question: does she... in the end?
Well, the White Swan surely does.
About Nathalie Portman: I've never liked her, maybe because she's associated in my mind with the murder of such a great saga scenario (Star Wars newest I, II and III. I don't think you've ever heard about it).
But god, was she brilliant.
I respect her so much right now. That Nina part is such a challenge, and she just.. what was it again? "It was perfect".
About Mila Kunis: she's grown since That's 70s show. How comes?
A magnificent actress too.
I can't help picturing her acting all bitchy and hitting Kelso.
About the movie in general: it made one of my accointances so sick she had to leave the movie theater before the movie ended.
I didn't. I'd paid for half my ticket, damnit.
And I'm quite sure some were not that comfortable with the hot, lesbian sex scene (oh god where? WHERE??).
So it's not a sweet nice little movie.
It's a good one. Go watch it.
It's me-approved.
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