Black Swan!! I'll try to avoid spoilers.

 
Boys and girls, today I saw Black Swan. It was my reward to myself for going to the dentist the other day (a very short visit: check up and x-rays. All good) and let me tell you something, flist, it was quite the thing.

I was always going to see it because, hey, Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman in the same movie...Not something I could have ever missed, lol. I wasn't sure what to expect because I made a point of avoiding reviews and only saw some screencaps on a blog, so I was pretty much a clean slate which turned out to be a very good thing indeedy.

So, where to start? The only appropriate word to describe the movie is "carnal". It was very much of the body...Lots of blood (for a non-slasher movie, I mean really), lots of attention on the body as a whole (der, it's about dancers), lots of opposition...Light and dark, good and bad, black swan vs white swan, and plenty of sex (just what a great movie needs). Other words to describe Black Swan would be "odd", "beautiful", "engaging" and "hawtt!!". I'm so keeping that last one, lol, grammar be damned.

Nina (Natalie Portman) is to play the lead in Swan Lake, embodying both the white swan and the black swan (her evil twin). Lily (the lovely Mila Kunis) is the new girl from San Fran who it to be Nina's alternate. She sort of befriends Nina and tries to get her to relax (interesting things ensue), and is then accused of trying to steal Nina's part. Bad and weird things happen to Nina later on. I'd say more, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone, lol.

There are a lot of strange things that occur (Nina's hallucinations, primarily) and some odd relationships (Nina and her mother. 'Nuff said), but all in all the movie went really well. I've never seen Mila Kunis in such a big movie with a part that actually matters and I have to say that she did brilliantly. I'm sure -- may I be struck by lightning -- that she's the new Angelina Jolie...Edgy roles, intense acting. I loved that the movie not just featured the story of Swan Lake in the ballet, but actually told it in the greater storylines. Well done, I thought, and creative too. It kind of started to come apart a little bit from the end, but it held together very well up until that point and it reminded me of how much I adore Natalie Portman (poor Nina, lol).

So, go see the movie and tell me what you think, dear flist. I want to say more specific things about it (Nina in her childhood bedroom, Nina and Lily in Nina's childhood bedroom ;)) but I don't want to ruin it for you all.