Black Swan. Everything about this movie is fantastic: the score by Clint Mansell, the choreography, Natalie Portman's performance. Darren Aronofsky put a lot of effort into directing this one: the way the camera works around the mirrors without being seen, the artistically place shots, just being an absolute genius with mirrors in general.

The constant shift between diegetic and Non-diegetic music also helps to subconsciously blur the line between reality and fiction. A conflict that occurs between Natalie Portman's character but on a significantly stronger psychological scale. Darren Aronofsky has proved in this movie that he's able to excel in shot after shot consistency as well as effective use of lighting in certain scenes to cause drama.

All of the casting was great in this movie, especially for Mila Kunis's character. She was perfect to play the carefree naughty girl in this movie. This movie does a great job showing the pressure and drama in these dance groups, once you hit a certain age. Other than that, I just love trippy movies, where the character descends into madness. One flaw I had with it though is that the ending did seem a little rushed but it's Darren Aronofsky wanted to tell the story he did for a reason and I can't argue with that.

I'm sure you guys have already seen it, but if you haven't I'd strongly recommend it.

I don't know if it's because I wasn't in the right frame of mind to be immersed in a film the particular evening I decided to watch Black Swan. I hope so as it used to be one of my favourite films.

It really is a cinematic beauty. Not to be enjoyed on the small screen as it's dark, smouldering chills cannot envelope and capture you in the way Aronofsky intends in this moral tale of perfection, obsession and insanity.

I personally would've liked a little more normality in the first act to really show Nina's descent into madness, however, the lack of this shows how her mind was already teetering closer to the edge than the next person's.

I feel like I want to watch this again already because although the story did drag a little for me as I've watched it so many times. I really didn't get to feel the vivid colours and swift movements and the creeping in the shadows as I streamed the movie. This has influenced me into thinking about investing in a projector/home cinema set-up.

As I delve further into my discovery for cinema, I'm looking to new films to surprise and excite me and unfortunately, this was too recent a watch to do that however, this is a visual masterpiece that I will revisit later down the line for sure and give a better more indepth review of the film itself as my concentration improves also.

What a deliciously, decadent, dark piece of candy this film is! Natalie Portman is a revelation and the film is unpredictable but moves with an assurance to take you places you may not want to go. But you want to know how it all ends. Great film. I think most people won't appreciate it until a couple of years from now.