friend gave me. She said be who you think you are because in this world you don’t find yourself you create yourself. So i think about my past and where I am now, and I come to the conclusion that I am extraordinary, I am spectacular, I am a black swan. A black swan is described as an event characterized by rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective probability. I’ve had to stare adversity in face many times in my life and somehow i always seemed to find a convenient coping mechanism. When i was younger
The Black Swan is a movie about a woman named Nina Sayers, who was a ballerina at an esteemed ballet company. The newest production the company was undertaking was a ballet called Swan Lake. Swan Lake was about a princess, the Swan Queen, who was turned into an evil Black Swan. In the movie, the role of the Swan Queen was highly sought after among the ballerinas, especially since the former principal dancer, Beth Macintyre, was recently let go from the company because of her age. Nina was also
istian Marku Black Swan Dr. Kemler The Black Swan The black swan is a movie about an aspiring ballerina, Nina Sayers. She is in pursuit and greatly desires the lead role in a theatre production of “Swan Lake”, and she gets cast to dance both the white and black swan, two extremely different characters. She gets the lead role. The movie is not focused on the actual dancing but rather the stressful and emotionally taxing pursuit of perfection and self exploration which creates a psychotic breakdown
In Black Swan, a ballet dancer named Nina is casted to play both the White Swan and the Black Swan in the famous ballet titled Swan Lake. In the well-known opera, a princess is turned into a White Swan, who falls in love with a prince but then commits suicide when she finds out that the prince confessed his love to the Black Swan. In the movie Black Swan, Nina has to deal with the challenges that arise from trying to accurately portray both characters whom are completely opposite. It is easy for
This research paper will reflect on the film Black Swan. Examples will be used from the movie to explain the symptoms of psychosis found in Schizophrenia. Different scenes will be broken down to the physiological and biological level. Common drugs will also be listed and described and their purpose. Information of how the medicine works will be incorporated into the description. After fully explaining Schizophrenia and Psychosis related to Nina (Black Swan lead character), environmental factors will
Black Swan is a psychological thriller film that revolves around, Nina Sayers, a ballerina in a prestigious New York City ballet company who desperately aspires to get the part of the Swan Queen in the production of Swan Lake. The part requires a ballerina to perform both the Black and White Swan, however, Nina does not possess the dark, seductive quality needed for the Black Swan. She strives for perfection in every dance step, chastising herself when she makes a minor flaw, and it gets in the way
as her dark side begins to reveal, she gradually comes to the realization of her mother’s creepy possessiveness and begins to defy his mother. Their conflict is at its greatest when Lina discovers her mom’s attempt to stop her from playing the black swan and that’s when she verbally attacks even physically injures her mom. Personally, I think her mother’s over-protectiveness stems from the early setbacks in her career. She holds high expectation for her daughter who is subjected to a very strict
Nina Sayers: [weakly] I felt it. Thomas Leroy: What? Nina Sayers: Perfect. I was perfect. The movie “black swan” ends up with the conversation between the Nina and Leroy. The story is a depiction of a professional and perfectionist New York ballet dancer Nina going astray and ultimately her madness leads her to self destruction. Her pursuit of the leading role in a classic theatre production “Swan Lake” paves her way to the later breakdown. When it seems like her hard work finally pays off, the
the writer to discuss the issue through the main character in the Black Swan movie, a movie that portrays the desire in life that can destroy your life through its main character, Nina Sayers. The movie was directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Mark Heyman and the running time for this movie in 1 hour and 50 minutes. This movie is produced in USA. Black Swan movie is a great movie with a great actor to match. This movie stared by Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers, Mila Kunis as Lily, Vincent
Abstract This paper, broken into two sections, includes a mock case study of a young woman, from the movie Black Swan, who meets criteria for a Schizophrenia spectrum disorder, followed by current research on schizophrenia and recommended treatment. Because specific temporal information is unavailable and the key difference between schizophreniform disorder and schizophrenia is duration, the diagnosis made for the purpose of this paper is schizophrenia. The research portion will cover current research