The innocent girl in the new version of Swan Lake was turned into a white swan by the wizard Ross Bart. She longs for freedom, and only by finding true love can she break the spell. The arrival of the prince made her wish almost come true. Just as the prince was about to declare his true love, the black swan puzzled the prince by means. The white swan was heartbroken and committed suicide by jumping off a cliff, and died without regret.
The new drama needs the protagonist to decorate two corners, a white swan: noble, elegant, pure, timid, powerless, inferior and simple; Another black swan: sexy, attractive, mysterious, evil, confident and enthusiastic.
Thomas chose Nina as the new swan queen. Thomas thinks Nina has the potential to play two completely different roles, but she just needs Nina to find her own side of the black swan and show its charm. During the ballet rehearsal, Nina fell in love with her teacher Thomas, who became Nina's prince and was seduced by the black swan Lily. Nina, the white swan, almost collapsed and despaired, self-mutilated in the struggle between the black swan and the white swan, and her brilliant appearance faded, while the white swan, who suddenly woke up and was sad and desperate, was "freed" in "jumping off a cliff", and Nina got what she always wanted.
Nina's dominant side in life is the white swan, which is clever, obedient, pure, elegant, stiff, timid, timid, powerless, inferior and self-lacking. Nina grew up in an extremely depressed and controlled environment, and her mother blamed her inability to continue her career on having Nina, controlling Nina with a sense of guilt, and pinning her dreams on Nina, which made her extremely depressed about herself and Nina's emotional and instinctive needs. Under the strict discipline of her mother, Nina's life is only about her mother and ballet, and her mother's life focuses entirely on Nina, just like a * * * relationship. In this relationship, Nina can only be a clever, obedient, simple child who has no self and always depends on her mother. After all, Nina is an adult, and she also has an adult part. The part that has been suppressed for a long time forms Nina's personality shadow-black swan. In fact, the black swan is not evil. Healthy black swan is mature, mysterious, sexy, confident, true, calm, powerful and attractive. It is only because it has not been accepted and suppressed for a long time that it has become an evil black swan, with evil power and full of desire and charm. Nina's previous dominant personality, the White Swan, did not understand the later dominant personality, the Black Swan, a completely different personality profile from the White Swan, but the Black Swan knew the White Swan and understood its cowardice, weakness and desire. Nina's two sides often appear alternately in the film, such as scratching herself and cutting her finger. This is the anger and attack of the black swan on the white swan in Nina's inner world. White swan and black swan appear alternately to dominate the same body, and the attack between the two personalities is hurting Nina herself.
This film is very vivid. Colors, clothes, people, etc. There are many symbolic meanings in the film. The following pictures and texts explain the specific symbolic significance of some details in some films.
After the beginning of a beautiful melody, there is a gloomy background music, darkness without images, and a very evil laugh, which is symbolic: although you can't see some kind of power, it exists, giving people an evil and terrible feeling.
Then Nina, an elegant, beautiful and pure girl, dances gracefully in the background of a beam of light, which is symbolic: there are fewer bright parts and more dark parts, which symbolizes less self-knowledge and more unknowns about herself; At the same time, she is lonely.
She was still a girl at this time.
The dark Lord appeared and turned the girl into a swan.
The evil wizard Rothbart has black feathers and horns symbolizing the devil on his head. Rothbart is evil and powerful.
Nina's skirt changed from a white gauze skirt symbolizing a girl to a ballet skirt symbolizing a white swan. Rothbart turned the girl into a swan. The frightened white swan flapped its wings, lost some feathers and fled to a place with light.
This is Nina's dream. The evil Rothbart has taken control of her and turned her into a white swan, weak, timid and afraid.
Nina in two mirrors, there is only one Nina in front of the mirror, but the feeling in the mirror is that two people are doing different actions. This shooting technique is used in many places in the film, which symbolizes that her two personalities are doing different things.
When I first met Lily, Nina was attracted by the charm, self-confidence, naturalness and cheerfulness of Lily women. She stared at Lily. In fact, Nina herself has such a side, but she doesn't know that she will be attracted to such girls in reality.
The effect of Thomas body double shot by the director here with a mirror shows Nina's split personality.
In Nina's mind, Beth is perfect. The perfect Nina steals Beth's cosmetics, which symbolizes Nina's desire to be as perfect as Beth and agrees with her own perfection.
The pursuit of perfection is also the devil's trick, which will make people more and more lifeless or lose their souls.
Nina with black hair and black clothes is Nina's illusion, a part of Nina's personality isolated from her heart projected into reality, and the other side of herself-Nina of the black swan. Different personality states have their own unique clothing preferences, including appearance and figure.
Nina the White Swan: The fluffy white scarf, meticulously tied hair and pink coat symbolize Nina's simple, lovely and self-disciplined little girl. Hair is a symbol of emotion, and the tied hair symbolizes Nina's self-control and repression of her emotions.
Nina, black swan: flowing hair and black clothes: very feminine, mysterious, powerful and confident.
Nina works hard, and the split nails indicate Nina's split personality.
In the room with white and pink as the main colors, the black flowers on the quilt and pillow symbolize that the black swan is always there, coexisting with the pure and lovely white swan symbolized by pink, and the black flowers are particularly conspicuous in the pink room.
Nina's home is dark and suffocating, which symbolizes that the psychological state of mother and daughter is very depressed.
This painting of Nina's mother's room, with a feeling of depression and restlessness, symbolizes Nina's mother's psychological state. Usually depressed, but also easy to get angry. The whole wall of the room is full of mothers and daughters, symbolizing that ballet and Nina are everything to the mother.
Noble, elegant, beautiful and unconfident white swan.
This is the harmful behavior of the black swan in her heart. The director shows the interaction between two personalities in Nina's mind by seeing hallucinations. The pre-dominant personality and post-dominant personality of dual personality are often completely opposite personalities. If the previous personality is introverted, timid, shy and depressed, then the later personality is extroverted, brave and open. The former dominant personality doesn't know the latter personality, but the latter personality knows the former personality very well. Because it has been suppressed for a long time, the subsequent personality has a lot of anger and attacks on the previous personality.
Black body and white face, black and white wings and feathers, human body and swan wings symbolize the unity of black and white swan, man and goose, and dark forces.
The statue looks beautiful from a distance. Looking closely at the statue, the facial features are blurred, the broken feathers and face are painted white (Nina's painted face is prominent in many pictures later performed by Nina), and the eyes and mouth are black. This statue makes people feel uncomfortable, but it is very attractive to Nina.
Nina can't even undress herself. If you live like this for a long time, Nina's self will have no chance to form. Her mother's care for Nina is suffocating. Her mother needs children who don't grow up. She needs to be needed.
Mother is both happy and envious of Nina's present treatment.
Cutting Nina's nails means that mom doesn't treat Nina like an adult.
A scratch caused my mother great anger. Is this anger a transformation of jealousy or a deep responsibility of love? After cutting Nina's nails in a rage, she kissed Nina's hand guiltily. Nina dares to be angry and dare not speak. There are many scenes where her mother's emotions are very different from those when the incident happened. Nina's mother's emotional state is very unstable and emotional.
The scratches on the scapula symbolize that the black swan wants to break out of the cocoon, and the feathered place will itch.
Black swan in the mirror of anger, evil and cruelty
White swan is depressed, and black swan is open. After a long period of repression, sex became the right of the black swan. She won't let the white swan enjoy sex, so when the white swan masturbates, the black swan appears and the finger used by the white swan to masturbate is brutally cut off.
Nina actually likes Lily very much and longs for that kind of feminine charm.
The boy who was drinking together asked Nina who she was. She said she was a dancer, but she didn't say her name, which means Nina has no self, and her life is all ballet. It can be seen from her conversation with boys that she has little social experience, and her adaptability and flexibility are not as good as Lily's.
Nina and Lily are mistaken for two sisters. Lily and Nina are really two sisters. Just like Xia Qing Xia Zi in A Chinese Odyssey, the white swan and the black swan are sisters.
Nina thinks that the suicide ending in the new version of Swan Lake is beautiful, which symbolizes Nina's self-destructive tendency and lays the groundwork for later suicide.
Under the action of drugs, Nina began to hallucinate and felt her hands stick together like flippers; On the dance floor, black swans and white swans appear alternately on Nina.
Nina and Lily's sexual behavior can symbolize Nina's desire to have the charm, confidence and strength like Lily.
But for the black swan, I want to dominate Nina's body slowly and replace the white swan in this way.
Under the condition that drugs relieve the psychological inhibition of white swan, black swan and white swan are combined.
After combining with the black swan, Nina's dress changed, and she lost the doll at home, which symbolizes the psychological maturity of Nina and the black swan.
Nina clearly saw the man scratching her back for the first time. In Nina's heart, there has always been a person scratching. She has always existed in Nina's heart, but she doesn't exist in reality.
Nina is worried about being replaced by Lily and thinks that Lily has ulterior motives. Someone really has ulterior motives to replace Nina. Nina feels right, but it's not Lily, it's Lily-Nina of the Black Swan.
Judging from Thomas' words, Nina made a breakthrough this morning, because the black swan and the white swan were combined last night.
At first, I saw Lily and Thomas. "Lily" was seducing Thomas. Nina thought Lily wanted to take her place, so she seduced Thomas.
Later, I saw Nina and Rothbart, a combination of black swan and devil. The black swan was suppressed for a long time and rediscovered itself by the power of the devil. At this time, the black swan is evil. All she wants is to be seen, no matter what strength she gives.
Nina who gives up on herself and the black swan who combines with the devil have the impulse to give up on herself. She wants to destroy the perfection in the white swan's heart and make it collapse.
The whole picture is mostly black and white and red. The characters in the picture are deformed, crying and desperate, like Monet's Scream, which symbolizes that the white swan is on the verge of collapse.
Nina's scapula grows black feathers, which symbolizes that the black swan emerges from the cocoon, making the white swan collapse and giving the black swan a chance to dominate Nina's body. The black swan really has ulterior motives.
Nina closed the door and grabbed her mother's hand, symbolizing her mother's desire for control. It was the black swan who tried to break away from her mother's control. The attack on mother is anger at her long-term control and repression. She wants to be free, and the black swan needs to grow out of the white swan.
The bending of the calf changes backward, just like the leg of a swan, which symbolizes Nina's psychological transformation to a black swan step by step.
Nina, who insists on her own position and defends her own interests, shows that Nina is not a white swan. Her face is like the face of that sculpture, painted with a white face. White swan, black swan and dark forces are integrated.
Wearing socks in the dressing room before the performance, toes growing together and flippers like swans symbolizes that Nina is becoming more and more like a real swan psychologically.
The "lily" in the dressing room, the black swan, knows the white swan well and knows her weaknesses. When the white swan is frustrated, sad and weak, stimulate the white swan and arouse its anger. When the white swan is angry, its consciousness will be weakened, and the black swan will have the opportunity to dominate its body.
The replacement opportunity of dual personality: time, medicine, great emotion or pain.
time
The dual personality in many movies has a time dividing point. During the day and at night, the personality that is usually not accepted will appear at night, because the consciousness is strong during the day and weak at night, so the personality that is not accepted subconsciously will appear at night;
medical science
Also, after drug abuse, the depressed personality will have the opportunity to become the dominant personality;
Great emotion or pain.
Under great emotion or pain, people's consciousness is reduced, depression is reduced, and repressed personality has the opportunity to dominate.
One white and one black is Nina. The repressed black swan hates the weak white swan, and she hopes she can also play. On the other hand, there is only one goal at all costs: to let people know her existence. She needs a chance to play by herself-it's my turn.
Nina thinks she killed Lily. The image of the black swan is dead, but the psychological energy of the black swan is not dead. The white swan gradually lost consciousness in a state of extreme panic, and the black swan had a chance. Nina's eyes turn red in the bathroom. At this point, the black swan occupied Nina's body.
People have many faces, and the other side you don't like can't be killed. Whatever you hate or fear, they are there. What you have to do is to know them, not kill them. Everyone is yourself. To hurt them is to hurt yourself.
The evil, powerful, confident and mysterious black swan is very nervous when performing on the stage. The whole person shows the stretching pleasure behind the stage, just like Thomas said Beth: her performance is full of pleasure, making people tremble and perfect at a certain moment. ...
The face of the black swan, the face of the previous white swan and the face of the sculpture are the same.
The whole body is covered with black feathers and wings, which symbolizes that her black swan side has grown up and her wings are full. This is what the black swan wants, the opportunity she wants to show. In order to make a perfect appearance, she joined hands with the devil to break through the oppression of the white swan and her mother. Of course, there is a price to pay for joining hands with the devil. The devil will give you everything you want, but it will take away your soul and life.
After the gorgeous appearance, the black swan is slowly fading away, and the whites of its eyes are no longer red.
Black swan is active and charming. The kiss of the black swan made Thomas feel a little overwhelmed and anxious, and Thomas completely swept away his past seriousness, calmness, unruly and narcissism.
As Thomas expected, the black swan came to seduce him.
After the black swan whose wish has completely faded, Nina, the white swan who slowly regained consciousness, saw Lily who came to congratulate, and gradually realized it.
Lily wasn't in the dressing room before, and Lily didn't kill her.
Did the white swan hurt the black swan or did the black swan hurt the white swan? Whoever it is, it's Nina who hurt herself.
At this point, Nina's eyes have no nostalgia, pain, weakness and despair.
The white swan and the black swan fully demonstrated the beautiful and moving dance, realized the wishes of their mother and themselves, and met Thomas' expectations. They were at the peak of their lives and ended at the most beautiful moment. The last moment left to others and yourself is always the most beautiful, and everyone remembers this most beautiful moment.