Black Swan

Nina has been at the New York CIty Ballet Company for a very long time. For almost all her life she has been taking ballet and has dedicated her life to it. She still lives with her very over protective mother Erica who is constantly trying to control what she does and is very obsessive when it comes to controlling her daughter. Her main boss and dance teacher Leroy knows that Nina has beautiful technique but she doesn't have the emotion as the new dance Lily has. He knows that Nina could play the part of the white swan just fine but the black swan will be the struggle  for her. He chooses for Nina to be the part even though he isn't completely confident with his decision. Through all the practice and hard work, Nina becomes very stressed. When she is stressed she tends to scratch herself in her sleep. She is also having hallucinations that she is actually turning into the black swan and hallucinates many other things throughout the movie. Lily and Nina friendship grows as Lily shows her how to live a little and takes her out. This leads to having them party and do drugs which Nina has never experienced before. When she gets home her mother being very upset with her doesn't wake her up the next morning to go get ready for the ballet but calls her in sick. This makes Lily take the part since she is her understudy. Rushing in late to her performance she thinks Lily is trying to steal the part from her. Nina, angry insist that she is fine and will do the part of the swan without a problem. Before the act when she goes on as the black swan she imagines that Lily is in her dressing room getting ready as the black swan trying to take her place. She thinks she is fighting her off in her mind and believes she kills her by stabbing her with the mirror so she hides her in the shower of the dressing room. She goes on stage acting like nothing happened and plays the part of the black swan beautifully. When she comes back to change into the white swan Lily comes and tells her good job which makes her confused that she didn't kill her. She realizes that she was only slowly killing herself not Lily and she stabbed herself with glass. After this she continues to go on stage though and dance through the final part of the ballet. In the ballet her part dies in the end because her lover feel for the wrong prince and when she falls and dies in the ballet she is actually already dying. The come up to congratulate her when they realize she has hurt herself. Her last words were, “I was Perfect” before she died.
This a great must see movie filled with action and drama and I would recommend it to all if you can get past the parts that can be a little weird and confusing!