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.