Black Swan

Black Swan

The film Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. Is a captivating story about a young ballerina battling with the competitive world of professional ballet.  Its a very emotional story showing her struggle with emotions and love while trying to keep her lead role in the ballet Swan Lake.

Watching this film was really captivating as it is something that links in with what I have been reading "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde- R.L. Stevenson". The characters Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde have similar traits to the star of Black Swan, Nina. The traits are that they have been showing cases of split personality, as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde have two different sides good and evil and the film shows Nina struggling with her own personality disorder as she stresses to keep her lead role. You see transformations in her personality which is linked with the role she is playing for Swan Lake. " A classic story depicting the virgin/whore dichotomy that men face when choosing a lover."  She has to play two different roles in her ballet and I think this is what pushes her split personality, also with her abusive childhood and heightened stress of the role.

It has been interesting to research different split personality disorders and see in films and read in books of how people change and act when not in control of themselves, it is sad to know that this is actually happening to people now and their is no know cure.














Resources:

Christina Villarreal. 2011. Black Swan-ma cinematic portryal of schitzophrenia [29/01/16]https://drchristinavillarreal.com/2010/12/06/black-swan-a-cinematic-portrayal-of-schizophrenia/

Wikepedia, modified 2016. Black Swan [29/01/16]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_(film)