There are movie creatures we expect to be scary, like vampires, zombies, or Zach Galifianakis without his pants. But when Darren Aronofsky set out to invent a new kind of psychological thriller, he began with cherry-cheeked ballerinas in toe shoes. Aronofsky has shown us the dark side of the everyday before, in Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler. Now, in Black Swan, he brings out the evil in the cloistered world of the New York City Ballet. The movie stars Natalie Portman as a mentally deranged dancer so obsessed with her starring role in Swan Lake that she begins an excruciating physical transformation into a black-feathered beast. "Swan Lake is about a young woman turned into a half-swan, half-human creature by an evil magician.
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