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8 The Sun, Wednesday,
At.the,Movies
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By lan Black
Special to The Sun
I'm the first to admit I'm a
bit ignorant when it comes to
the subject of ballet. I know it
involves artfully choreo-
graphed dancing by incredibly
fit people who nearly destroy
their legs and feet, particularly
the women.
I know the names of a few
famous ballets and if you
played me a very famous seg-
ment of music from one, I
might be able to tell you what
ballet it's from. No way I could
tell you who wrote it, though,
or anything else. It's simply one
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of those cultural facets that has
eluded me over the years.
As you may have surmised,
DarrenAronofsky's latest fill,
"Black Swan," is about
ballet...and insanity, but we'll
get to that later. And because the
movie is called "Black Swan"
you probably won't be sur-
prised to know that the ballet at
the heart of the fill is Swan
Lake, which is one of those
aforementioned ballets I had
heard the title of at some point
in the past.
This movie probably taught
me more about ballet and Swan
Lake in particular than anything
else ever had. So, score one for
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Hollywood. I can now pretend a bad thing, though. Subtlety is
I know what I'm talking about likely not what Darren
if someone brings up ballet. Aronofsky was going for.
Our heroine is Nina Sayers The film's one major flaw
(Natalie Portman), a talented, is that it takes a good, long
yet shy ballerina who lives with while to get going. You'll be
her overbearing, failed ballerina very tired of hearing Vincent
mother (Barbra Hershey). Af- Cassel berate Natalie Portman
ter showcasing that she is actu- for not "losing herself' or "let-
ally capable of coming out of ting go," because that's pretty
her shell, the head of the stu- much the entire plot of the first
die, Thomas Leroy (played by two thirds ofthe film. However,
Vincent Cassel, the "French the rather spectacular ending
guy" in every movie) makes her almost makes up for all of that.
the new Swan Queen, the lead- The film also lacks much in
ing role in Swan Lake the way of an emotional con-
However, Nina undergoes nection. It's likely you won't
increasing psychological strain care too much ifNina succeeds
as she tries to make the role in her dream role as a ballerina,
perfect, with Thomas always and again I doubt you really
telling her that she is a perfect were supposed to. This film is
"white swan" character but too more about what it says, rather
uptight and won't let the "black than what it makes you feel.
swan" free. It doesn't help that "Black Swan" is not for ev-
arival(MilaKunis)ischalleng- erybody. In fact, I'm still not
ing for her role, and that Nina entirely certain it was for me.
seems to be having increasingly While it does have moments of
disturbing hallucinations, beauty, it's a very, very weird
Don't run away with the film that changes between
idea that this is a bad movie. It straight drama and, oddly
certainly isn't. The cinematog- enough, psychological horror,
raphy is very impressive, as this with most of Nina's visions
film probably has some of the being pretty disturbing.
best art direction of the current In the end, you probably
crop of awards films, especially won't know what in the film
the last 20 minutes, or so. was real and wha.t wasn't, and
Granted, there's some pretty while you're wondering that,
obvious imagery in there, somewhere Darren Aronofsky
Natalie Portman's wardrobe is smiling, because that's ex-
consists entirely of white, high- actly what he wanted.
lighting innocence, while Mila If you're into more abstract
Kunis wears all black, repre- cinema, "Black Swan" will
senting darker impulses and probably interest you. If not,
seduction. In fact, you could this may be one to skip.
have just changed the film's
title to "Symbolism! The Grade: B
Movie!" That isn't necessarily Entertainment Value: 7
Two former Motown legends, the Commodores and the
Temptations, are joining harmonic forces to headline Spirit
Mountain Casino this Sunday Jan. 16.
The COmmodores formed in 1967 when all six original
members were attending Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Their
original plan was simply to play music as a pastime and to
meet girls.
Doom started to open for them when they received an invi-
tation to play a club in New York City. But the band didn't
want to disappoint the club owner so they brought many of
their family and friends from Alabama to fill the house. Un-
aware of the planned crowd, the club owner wasn't too im-
pressed with their talents but did like the fact that they brought
people into his club~ They were signed to be the house band
for the New York club. The band later auditioned to be the
opening tour act for the Jackson 5 and it wasn't long after that
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The Commodores have recorded seven number one hits
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for whichthey won their only Grammy award.
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The band formed in 1960 by way of Detroit, Michigan and
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and the show will begin at 8 p.m.
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