OK, I wasn't sure and didn't want to answer one way or the other. Basically, the story was about a super suppressed girl lands a part which requires her to open up and embrace her sexuality. She's a cold, frigid girl with a desperate need for control and perfection (seen in the hints of an eating disorder and the obsessive-compulsive skin picking), but there is this passionate woman bubbling beneath the surface (or following her on the train). For her though, opening up to such wild sexual abandon and darkness, leads to madness.
I think ballet was used as a metaphor because it's both beautiful and graceful- at the same time it is brutal and painful, just like passion. Basically, they created a modern riff of Swan Lake fairytale to tell the story of one girl's sexual awakening and descent into insanity.
Her friend and Beth represent both sides of her. Beth was once perfection, but is now dried up and alone. The other girl is the embodiment of everything Nina isn't but wants to be and what she abhors. This is why she constantly is hallucinating (or WAS SHE...) attacking or killing both. It was really about hurting those parts of herself.
Her mother was basically a psycho. She wanted to repress and control her daughter. She was a failed dancer and wanted to live her dreams through her infinitely more talented child.
Hopefully that made sense! I wasn't the biggest fan, but that's what I got from it.
Yeah, that much was clear, but there's so much I don't understand. What was the deal with Nina's mother? Did Nina really die at the end? How did she keep dancing after she stabbed herself? Why do writers keep being lazy and making cop-out endings that pretend to be artsy and claim to be actual endings that are "left up to interpretation"? Why not bother writing actual endings to things? Arghhh.
I'm not so sure, not all the time at least. There are some definite Tyler Durden moments where only Nina seems to be affected by Lily. I think that (the real) Lily became a fixation for Nina and a good half of the things she gets up to in the film are actually not the real Lily at all, but Nina's schizophrenic projection of Lily.
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Date: 2011-03-26 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-03-27 12:32 am (UTC)I think ballet was used as a metaphor because it's both beautiful and graceful- at the same time it is brutal and painful, just like passion. Basically, they created a modern riff of Swan Lake fairytale to tell the story of one girl's sexual awakening and descent into insanity.
Her friend and Beth represent both sides of her. Beth was once perfection, but is now dried up and alone. The other girl is the embodiment of everything Nina isn't but wants to be and what she abhors. This is why she constantly is hallucinating (or WAS SHE...) attacking or killing both. It was really about hurting those parts of herself.
Her mother was basically a psycho. She wanted to repress and control her daughter. She was a failed dancer and wanted to live her dreams through her infinitely more talented child.
Hopefully that made sense! I wasn't the biggest fan, but that's what I got from it.
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Date: 2011-03-27 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-26 05:37 pm (UTC)I didn't care for the movie, to be honest.
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