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Were they trying to make it a surprise that Winona Ryder is in this movie? I haven't seen her in the ads at all (or if she was in them she was unrecognizable) and I didn't know she was in it until I read this thread.

Or is it that she really isn't news anymore so the marketing peeps didn't really think it was worth a big mention? (See: Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler.)

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Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2014372)

i thought the same thing.

Just saw this today. Having a hard time deciding what I really thought about it.

Lol, when walking out, this man turns to his wife and goes, "you owe me two movies for that one!"

My husband and I went to see it with another couple and all 4 of us left the movie saying we needed a drink! So we went to a bar and discussed the film. I thought it was great and I was amazed at Natalie Portman's portrayal. I think she's going to win a ton of awards, and IMO, she deserves them!

It was INTENSE!

I liked it! Bf and I saw it yesterday.

I didn't like it. It missed the mark.

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Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2013920)

PM me and tell me what happens in the last 20 minutes.

There are certain things/images that don't bother the general populace that leave me in a fetal position sobbing, and vice versa.

You might want to turn to Wikipedia if you are contemplating avoiding the movie - this account is quite detailled:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_(film)

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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000 (Post 2031469)

You might want to turn to Wikipedia if you are contemplating avoiding the movie - this account is quite detailled:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_(film)

DTD Alum filled me in and I'm so skipping it. :)

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Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2032085)

DTD Alum filled me in and I'm so skipping it. :)

As of Sunday, Feb 20th, I have now seen it and yeah, it's definitely psychologically disturbing and heavy. Natalie Portman is excellent in her portrayal, but wow, it ain't no "ballet movie", that's for sure.....

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Originally Posted by tri deezy (Post 2014139)

I thought that this movie was majorly about serious mental illness. Natalie Portman's character had a very serious case of non-medicated schizophrenia. Throughout the movie, I kept thinking about the aunt of an old friend of mine who, during a psychotic episode associated with her schizophrenia, cut off her own lips with a razor blade thinking that they were filled with spider eggs. That's why I wrote about how the theme of this movie is extra creepy since it really does happen to people.

Going into that film, I knew that schizophrenia was one of the themes in the movie, so it helped me to understand what was happening in the movie while it was in progress, otherwise, I might not have clued in initially what was happening before me on the screen. But yes, there is nothing comical about non-medicated schizophrenia, -- in one extreme case in Canada, there was an gruesome instance of murder, beheading and cannibalism aboard a Greyhound bus in July 2008 - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Mclean

I am officially the last person in the world to see this movie.

I've studied mental illness so of course I loved it. I'm nerdy like that.

It IS a little graphic, but to be honest, I was more bothed by the skin picking/bleeding stuff than the over-the-top sex scene.

I semi-LOLed and cringed at a co-worker (older lady) telling me (when I told her I rented it) that she took her 7th grade ballet student daughter to see it (thinking it was a dance movie.) Oops.

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06 (Post 2043664)

I semi-LOLed and cringed at a co-worker (older lady) telling me (when I told her I rented it) that she took her 7th grade ballet student daughter to see it (thinking it was a dance movie.) Oops.

:eek: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

asdfhwoiwohfio Does she not own a TV on which she would have seen the trailer? I'm picturing the shade of red that her daughter's face must have been during the sex scene. Crimson? Fire-engine red? Somebody-for-the-love-of-God-put-me-out-of-my-misery red?

And I still hate this damn movie. I hate the commercials for the dvd release. As far as I'm concerned, the movie isn't half as good or half as riveting as the commercials make it seem.

Awesome movie in theory but horrible in practice. I've seen much better psychological thrillers that do a much better job with mental illness.

I still haven't seen it so you weren't the last.

Now I have seen it. Yeah, I paid the $4.99 to watch it On Demand. I thought it was intense and that Natalie Portman did an amazing job.

As to the question whether the ending was literal or metaphorical, I would say literal. To the comments about it being too jumbled, I believe that was the intent, to give you the same feelings she was having. I thought it was very well done. I didn't think the intent was to be a psychological thriller in the sense that say, Sixth Sense was. I thought it was just a portrayal of her reality.