Film Review: Black Swan

Like a companion piece to the director’s previous film, The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan focuses on another sort of physically and mentally gruelling performance art. But substituting ballet for professional wrestling and swapping in Natalie Portman’s diminutive femininity in place of Mickey Rourke as ultra-macho Randy “The Ram” Robinson does a lot more than reverse the gender polarity and replace one set of professional jargon with another.

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