Lily buys drinks and meets with some guys. Nina is hesitant but indulges finally. Lily also spikes their drink so that they can have a little fun.
I believe Lily is not trying to sabotage Nina. This is who Lily is. After the club, Nina heads home alone. Yes, Lily is not with her. This is purely her imagination. Nina has a fight with her mother and shuts herself in her room. In reality, Nina is just touching herself.
Nina wakes up late and rushes to the rehearsal. Her mother clearly does not want Nina to be part of the ballet anymore as it is emotionally harming her. Thomas has asked Lily to temporarily step in and work the Swan Queen role as Nina was late. Lily is genuinely humoured that Nina fantasized about being with her. Later, Nina throws away all her dolls at home and breaks the ballerina toy. She imagines her mirror reflection scratching herself.
We can see that by now the wound has healed. That the rash is only in her mind. After rehearsals, Nina is sent for getting her measurements for the Swan Queen costumes. Nina realizes that Lily is also getting measured for the same.
Lily explains that she is just an alternative and that it was only just in case. That making Lily her alternative Nina will fight harder. Thomas had seen how Nina first came to meet him dolled up when it looked like she might not get the role. This pure speculation. Nina begs Thomas to make someone else her alternate as she feels Lily is trying to steal her role. Thomas assures her that she had her breakthrough and the opening day she will shine. Later after practice, she sees someone in the shadows.
She imagines Rothbart making out with Veronica. She goes to meet Beth, and Beth starts stabbing herself with a nail file. Nina is pretty much losing her mind and is seeing herself as projections.
She goes home and sees visions of a bleeding Beth, and the artwork start talking and laughing at her. Her mother tries to calm Nina down, but she shuts her self and slams the door. Nina hallucinates feathers coming out of her rash, imagines her legs breaking at the knees to look like swan legs , and eventually falls down knocking herself unconscious.
Nina wakes up with her mother on the side comforting her saying that she was scratching all night. Nina becomes furious and crushes her mother hands to get to the doorknob and leaves. She heads to the theatre and Lily is surprised Nina is in given she was sick. Nina is now calm and composed. Thomas is happy to see Nina this confident. He tells her that the only person standing in her way is herself. The show begins. Nina is highly distracted and as a result, gets dropped by her partner.
Thomas is furious. Yes, Lily is not actually here. Imaginary-Lily suggests that she should do the Black Swan as Nina will not be able to. Imaginary-Lily then transforms into a Dark-Nina. Nina stabs her doppelganger who turns back into Imaginary-Lily and dies. Nina hides the dead body, gets dressed for her Black Swan act and exits. She bashes herself against the mirror and eventually stabs herself.
Her alternate personality takes over, and her metamorphosis is complete. The White Swan has become the Black Swan.
Before Thomas can say anything, she kisses him passionately. She completes her act, and we are shown her shadow to be a black swan. The audience is left cheering loudly. She puts a towel to stop the blood. We can see that there is no rash on her back, confirming these wounds are in her mind.
Suddenly, there is a knock on the door, and it turns out to be the real Lily who has come to congratulate Nina on the fantastic performance. Nina is confused and checks for the body, there is none. Then she finds a broken mirror stabbed in her stomach, and takes it out.
With the wound, Nina goes on to perform her last act. One of the major themes in Black Swan is the quest for artistic perfection — the desire to achieve it can be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but the actual goal always hangs just out of reach, because perfection itself isn't necessarily possible.
In Black Swan , this drives Nina to have a psychological breakdown. And after playing Lily, Kunis realized that there was no point in holding herself to the standard of perfection.
She's worked in Hollywood long enough to know that while Nina's story is fictional, there are plenty of people who desperately try to achieve perfection and end up losing themselves in the process. She believes that everyone will enjoy different things, and you can't please everybody. I don't think it's achievable; I think it is impossible to achieve perfection," Kunis told The Talks.
She continued, "What I consider beautiful, most likely you don't. That doesn't mean that I am right and you are wrong, it's just a difference of opinion. Natalie Portman is best-known for her acting career, but she's also book smart.
She took time off from acting to study psychology at Harvard University, and she also spent six months studying abroad in Jerusalem. While she didn't end up pursuing a career in this field, she still values the time she spent in academia. She rarely gets to apply this knowledge to her acting career, but every once in a while, her two passions align. She felt that her understanding of psychology helped her get into Nina's head.
Nina is never diagnosed with any specific mental health conditions in the film, but Portman recognized her symptoms. The scratching and the anorexia and bulimia are forms of OCD. In Hollywood, Portman has always been known for having a good head on her shoulders. She isn't the type to pop up in the tabloids, she clearly values education, and she's always been poised and articulate. Portman is totally aware of the way she's perceived, and although she knows there's some truth to it, it's also become a running joke for example, there's her tongue-in-cheek rap sketch on Saturday Night Live.
For Portman, Black Swan represented a chance to get outside of that box and challenge the public's perception of her.
Nina is sheltered and innocent, and she struggles to embody the Black Swan, but Portman herself has no trouble portraying Nina's breakdown and her final, flawless performance. Her risque scenes with Kunis may have been a surprise to her fans, but Portman embraced the shock value.
Kunis was already well known before Black Swan. Additionally, she'd appeared in films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall. But it was Black Swan that established Kunis as a serious actress, one who could go beyond comedy. This role represented a transition to Kunis playing more mature characters. While Kunis was happy about the success of Black Swan , she didn't realize the extent to which this role would change her life. She felt that she got to enjoy a certain level of privacy before Black Swan that she could never really return to.
Maybe people will see it, maybe they won't,'" Kunis told Harper's Bazaar. She explained that before Black Swan , "I had anonymity. Right now, not nearly as much. Nina is a dancer in an unnamed Manhattan ballet company, all of whom are surprised to find out that lead dancer Beth is being replaced. The company's director Thomas springs an unannounced audition for the role of the Swan Queen, which requires the dancer to portray both the virginal White Swan, Odette, and the sensual Black Swan, Odile.
Nina is one of the dancers selected to try out, and as the White Swan, she excels. When Nina is interrupted in her Black Swan audition by new dancer Lily, played by Mila Kunis , she panics and flubs the whole audition. At home, she rehearses the choreography she stumbled through, but cracks her big toenail in half.
Her mom admonishes her for pushing too hard, and says how unfair it is that Thomas would call auditions without giving anyone time to prepare. The next day, Nina puts on a see-through shirt and red lipstick, trying to convince Thomas she's right for the role. He disagrees, saying all he sees "is the White Swan. Shortly after, Nina is shocked to see that he has cast her as the Swan Queen. The other company dancers are as surprised as she is, and draw the worst conclusions: When Nina comes out of the restroom, the word "WHORE" is written on the mirror in red lipstick.
Back at Nina's apartment, we discover just how unhealthily obsessed Erica is with her daughter: Her bedroom is filled with terrible portraits she's made of Nina through the years. Erica tries to celebrate Nina's casting by guilting her daughter into eating cake. The scratch on Nina's back is seen, grown far deeper and more serious. On Nina's first day of Swan Queen rehearsals, she's moved to a shared dressing room for lead dancers.
Thomas praises Nina's work as the White Swan, but says she still needs major work to pull of the Black Swan. Later, Thomas and Nina watch Lily dancing. Imprecise, but effortless. She's not faking it," he says, shaming Nina through comparison. Thomas organizes a gala to say goodbye to Beth and introduce Nina as the new Swan Lake lead. Beth is furious and makes no secret of it. Taking a break from the party in the bathroom, Nina notices she has a hangnail. She pulls on it; it tears and bleeds profusely.
But when someone knocks on the bathroom door, the injury disappears. Thomas invites Nina back to his place and as she waits for him, an enraged Beth accuses Nina of sleeping her way to the top. Later, to get her to loosen up, Thomas gives Nina a "homework assignment," telling her to explore her sexuality on her own.
At home, Nina's mom helps her undress and sees the wound on her back is worse. I thought you were done with this, Nina! Nina wakes the next morning looking stressed. She tries to finish Thomas' "assignment," but realizes her mother is sleeping in her room. This is not a good start to the day, and Nina struggles in rehearsal.
Her day gets worse when she finds out Beth has walked into incoming traffic and is badly injured, an incident that took place just after their gala confrontation. Thomas comforts her, but Nina is spiraling. Nina decides to go visit Beth in the hospital and is horrified by the state of her injuries, including Beth's devastated right leg. Back at work, Thomas is losing patience with his White Swan.
Let it go! He sends home the male leads and tries to infuse some passion into Nina's dancing by making out with her. He cruelly says, "That was me seducing you, when it needs to be the other way around. Nina insists Lily doesn't understand. At home, Nina is having more breaks with reality as she sees blood in her bathwater that isn't actually there.
The wound on her back is growing. Nina cuts her finger on purpose and seems to delight in the act. Thomas' verbal abuse escalates. Nina confronts a dismissive Lily, and her paranoia grows that Lily wants her part. On the subway home, an elderly man sexually harasses Nina and instead of moving away from him, she just watches. At home, Nina's mom asks whether Thomas had "tried anything with her," and they have a huge fight about Erica's life choices.
Erica claims Nina ruined her career, and she doesn't want the same thing to happen to her. Angry, Nina reminds her mother that she was 28 when she got pregnant and had aged out of ballet anyway.
Exercising control, Erica demands that Nina take her shirt off so she can check the wound on her back.
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