Stereotypes In The Film, Black Swan

Swan Lake is a popular ballet in which a girl is cursed and turned into a white swan. To return back to a normal state, the girl must find her prince. The white swan found her prince, but a mirror image of the girl, the black swan, tricked the prince. The white swan, having saw this trickery, knows she will never be freed of the curse because of this sabotage and kills herself. This story is included within the movie, Black Swan, not only as a production within, but also as a full encompassing storyline.
The movie Black Swan involves a New York City ballet company that decides to use Swan Lake as its season opener. The ballerinas are under tremendous pressure and competition because the white swan and black swan will be played by only a single ballerina, the swan queen, who has to be decided. The main character, Nina, a young woman who lives for dance, feels this pressure and tries out for the spot.
Nina is a perfectionist, she wants every move to be perfect and practices nonstop from the moments she wakes up until she falls asleep. She is distant from other people and really only converses with her mother, whom she lives with. She eats very …show more content…
I thought you were past this?” when Nina had large scratches on her back and did not seem to know where they were coming from. The scratches were consistent with her hallucinations and delusions and got worse as her symptoms got worse, suggesting a correlation between this scratching and her other symptoms. Perhaps Nina was not as disturbed for a while when pressure from work was not as high. At the beginning of the movie, before she even knew they were going to have auditions for the Swan Queen and pressure was low, she did see her face morphed onto someone else and did not seem as distraught suggesting that maybe she had seen this before and it was an ongoing