Reviews were good and some people referred to it as Inception-like. And I enjoyed that movie! I also like "Requiem for the Dream" (same director as Black Swan).

Objectively, this movie should have been good. Acting was good, shooting was interesting (shaky camera, close-ups), taking you right into the middle of the drama, although found the shakiness on a large screen a bit too much at times. Dancing was beautiful. And the fact that the entire movie seems like science-fiction until you figure out what's going, I thought gave it a unique aspect.

But overall, there was just no soul in it. It seemed technical, calculated and extreme in every genre (let's make this part really sexual, and this one really frightening, oh and this one especially gruesome). Slap it all together and you get Black Swan.

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This movie was terrible.

I have never witnessed a more complete collection of actors and scenes that I could never relate to. If I was able to drum up any empathy at all for any of the characters in this movie, I might have been left asking the question "why?" Instead, the only thought in my mind when I walked out of the theatre was "where did I park?"

There was only one good scene in the entire movie. I felt like the characters really emotionally connected in that scene and that I could understand and relate to their feelings. Unfortunately, that scene was later dismissed as not even being real (within the context of the already ridiculous plot). It was not worth having to watch the rest of the movie for. I challenge anybody who thought that this movie was awesome to get yourself tested for emotional problems.

This movie was terrible.

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