Natalie Portman in Nina's transformation into the black swan

What is beauty?

There’s the delicate beauty, soft and innocent. An ethereal beauty you might associate with a beautiful princess, or fair maiden.

Then there’s a darker beauty. That of the seductress.

Sweet and beautiful Natalie Portman played both in Black Swan.

The black swan movie was released in 2010.  Natalie portman, as Nina Sayers was captivating, to say the least.

To start with, here’s the black swan trailer.

The story behind the dance is simple. White swan is a princess trapped in a swan’s body. The only way to free her, was true love. That, she found in her prince. But her evil twin, the black swan, seduces her prince. Heartbroken, the white swan falls to her death.

Talented ballerina, Nina, was a young innocent beauty who was perfect as the white swan princess.  Delicate. Fragile. But as the company’s director, Thomas Leroy put it bluntly, frigid. That stood in her way of playing the seductive black swan.

Nina dolled up to persuade Thomas otherwise, and landed the much coveted role.  Enter Lily, her very talented and seductive rival who would stop at nothing to play the black swan.

Mysterious wounds began appearing on Nina’s body.

The tragedy of Beth and her insanity.

Seduction by the director Thomas and her alternate, Lily.

These slowly drive Nina insane as she morphs from the White Swan, to the deeply disturbed Black Swan. Her performance was mesmerizing.

Here’s a black swan scene where Nina transforms into the black swan.

Natalie Portman is amazingly talented. She danced when she was young, but trained with her ballet teacher for a full year for this role, which she played brilliantly.

I absolutely loved this dance scene from the black swan.