YES:
- Darren Aronofsky takes on the world of ballet!
- Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis’ dark side
- Great trailer music, especially at the turn when its adds the scary synth sound to the regular progression
- The whole “underworld of ballet” plot would be enough to make this film very enticing. But there’s also little bits of creepy, unexplainable shit going on. So you may think, “underworld of ballet thriller”. But the the trailer ends, and you see Natalie Portman pull whatever that was out of her shoulder and see her face, it had me thinking that there could even be some sort of supernatural element to this trailer. Any trailer that leaves this much to the imagination is a win.
- I don’t know how it’s possible but it already has a 9.4 rating on imdb.
NO:
- Darren Aronofsky is meticulous in making whatever subject he’s focusing on as real as possible. The best part about The Wrestler was how accurate it was able to represent the actual world of low level wrestling. And a lot of that realism came from the (should have been Oscar-winning) performance of Mickey Rourke. Can Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis portray ballerinas well enough to make actual ballerinas impressed?
- (I don’t actually give a shit about what ballerinas think, I spent a long time trying to think of a “no” for this trailer and that was the best I could do)
Black Swan premieres December 1st.
