The Movie Black Swan

I highly recommend the movie The Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman from Star Wars and Mila Kunis from That 70s Show.  The movie features Nina (Portman) as a ballerina with a prominent New York ballet company who is asked to dance the parts of the Queen Swan from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and the evil Black Swan.  Nina has to transform herself from the graceful and beautiful White Swan to a dark, sadistic, and alluring Black Swan.  Here in lies the struggle, the movie portrays Nina as a timid, conservative prude that has the perfection of the White Swan down to an art, however as the Black Swan she fails to connect with the audience of her lust and passion because of her inability to "let go" of her control and obsession with perfection.  Without giving the movie away, it travels with Nina as she tackles her darkest demons in order to bring out that Black Swan within her.  Many times you think Nina is on the verge of her own sanity.  It is visually stunning, and if you are in dance the way I am, you are at the edge of your seat the entire time they are on stage.  The dance sequences are typically short put full of cinematography that makes you feel like you're right in the audience of the actual ballet.  I highly recommend seeing this movie, it's passionate, dark, gritty, and visually amazing.