Black Swan
It’s fascinating how people go to great lengths to get what they want or to pursue their goals. These actions that go beyond the extent of the audience’s imagination are what make movies consuming. Overall, the movie “Black Swan” shows such strange and creepy images that made me wonder what is a hallucination and what is real throughout the whole movie, and that thought kept me absorbed. The fragile and pure main character, Nina, who perfectly symbolizes the white swan, is constantly controlled by her strict mother, swayed by her expecting teacher, Thomas, and irritated by her rival, Lily. These three surrounding characters each play a great role in transforming Nina from the white swan to the black one. Eventually, Nina finds herself …show more content…
Throughout nearly one and a half hour, there are nearly no complete scenes that thoroughly explain the plot or connect to the next scene. Every scene abruptly ends or gets interrupted by another scene. While these disconnections create mystery and suspension by making the audience unable to link the hidden parts, it also leads to an incomplete plot and leaves too many uncovered parts in the short film. Nearly all of Nina’s experiences don’t seem to make any sense in the reality that the audiences live in until the recognition that they are …show more content…
The movie and Nina’s life can be divided into three main parts by color. The starting portion is dominant with the color white, the middle part where Nina starts to transform shows a great amount of red blood, and the ending is filled with the ‘black’ Nina till her death. Along with these colors, the white, fragile, and innocent girl always leaning on her mother changes into a black, violent, and aggressive woman. The visual changes are obvious. At the start of the movie, Nina is always dressed in white and surrounded by people dressed in black. This is consistent in the subway, the streets, and even most of the space around her. Then, gradually, the portion of Nina with black clothes on, red eyes, and black feathers from her back grows as the movie moves toward the end. By this part, given that most people learn from bedtime stories and many movies that the evil eventually experiences a downfall, the audiences may guess that Nina’s play might have a bad
It’s fascinating how people go to great lengths to get what they want or to pursue their goals. These actions that go beyond the extent of the audience’s imagination are what make movies consuming. Overall, the movie “Black Swan” shows such strange and creepy images that made me wonder what is a hallucination and what is real throughout the whole movie, and that thought kept me absorbed. The fragile and pure main character, Nina, who perfectly symbolizes the white swan, is constantly controlled by her strict mother, swayed by her expecting teacher, Thomas, and irritated by her rival, Lily. These three surrounding characters each play a great role in transforming Nina from the white swan to the black one. Eventually, Nina finds herself …show more content…
Throughout nearly one and a half hour, there are nearly no complete scenes that thoroughly explain the plot or connect to the next scene. Every scene abruptly ends or gets interrupted by another scene. While these disconnections create mystery and suspension by making the audience unable to link the hidden parts, it also leads to an incomplete plot and leaves too many uncovered parts in the short film. Nearly all of Nina’s experiences don’t seem to make any sense in the reality that the audiences live in until the recognition that they are …show more content…
The movie and Nina’s life can be divided into three main parts by color. The starting portion is dominant with the color white, the middle part where Nina starts to transform shows a great amount of red blood, and the ending is filled with the ‘black’ Nina till her death. Along with these colors, the white, fragile, and innocent girl always leaning on her mother changes into a black, violent, and aggressive woman. The visual changes are obvious. At the start of the movie, Nina is always dressed in white and surrounded by people dressed in black. This is consistent in the subway, the streets, and even most of the space around her. Then, gradually, the portion of Nina with black clothes on, red eyes, and black feathers from her back grows as the movie moves toward the end. By this part, given that most people learn from bedtime stories and many movies that the evil eventually experiences a downfall, the audiences may guess that Nina’s play might have a bad