Rina Angela Corpus talks about the perfectionism that revolves around ballerinas portrayed in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan". She clearly mentions a number of instances in the movie that are portrayed accurately, which people overlook on a daily basis. In her review, she mentions that the ballet world is a male dominated craft although the aesthetics of such an art have always been an idealization of the female form. As a result of this ballet system, female dancers are driven to become tenacious competitors and are forced to live absurd lives filled with self-harm and a number of different psychological disorders like anorexia and bulimia in the pursuit for perfection. The review also brings to life the sad truth about how utterly painful it is to be an artistic dancer from the clothes and shoes they wear to the victimization they face from their choreographers and their own minds which are closed to anything but perfection.
This review is probably the most important in defining the thesis of my research paper. It includes everything that I think is most necessary to mention about being a ballerina. Even though it seems like something that is so effortless and beautiful, the struggles that ballerinas go through in order to make every part of their body flow so smoothly is one that definitely should not be overlooked. .
Dharmender's article opens with a quote written by Friedrich Nietzsche that says "One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star"." Similar to the views of Rina Corpus, Dharmender also talks about how the movie is centered around perfectionism and Nina Sayer's pursuit of embodying the lead double role in "Black Swan". He also talks about how we see her go down a vicious of path of self-destruction and self induced vomiting or bulimia, which ultimately leads to her demise. The article closes to say that in her last dying moment she proceeds to utter a bittersweet reflection on all that she has suffered: "I felt it.
