Actual conversation in the bathroom while the closing credits were still going…

Dude 1: “You just come out of Black Swan?”

Dude 2: “Yeah.”

Dude 1: “What the hell was that?”

What that was, my friends, was a Darren Aronofsky film.  Visual, trippy, and probably the best third act I’ve seen in the past twelve months.  Natalie Portman headlines a great cast in this film about a ballerina cast in the lead role of ‘Swan Lake’, but who’s encouraged/manipulated into getting in touch with her ‘passionate’ side to play the role of the Black Swan.  So how does a complete control freak react when they start to give in to their natural impulses?  Well, there’s your movie.

Natalie is still considered the frontrunner for the Oscar (especially after the Globes).  I think her odds are pretty good.  Like I said in the intro, when the film gets into the third act, it’s her movie.  I tried to wrap my head around who else right now could mix that fragility/upper class/artiste type of character that she plays her, but no one came to mind.  This film (like most of Aronofsky’s) isn’t for everybody, but it’s definitely interesting.