The tragedy of Nina, and of many young performers and athletes, is that perfection in one area of life has led to sacrifices in many of the others. At a young age, everything becomes focused on pleasing someone (a parent, a coach, a partner), and somehow it gets wired in that the person can never be pleased. One becomes perfect in every area except for life itself. The movie cracked with suspense from start to finish, the audience are left to wonder what is real and what is a fabrication of of Nina's mind. this is something i would like to incorporate into my film.
Black swan trailer
Rear window (1954) Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart)
is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the
time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model
girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares
through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other
apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns
them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine Darcy), a
professional dancer with
a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith Evelyn), a
middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of
particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars
Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife.
One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's
incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually
concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and
disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings
just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred Hitchcock's very best
efforts,
Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires. What makes this movie so entertaining and leaves audience on the edge of there sit is the fact that it is so enigmatic and like the Black swan, you are left to wonder what is real and what was not.
Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires. What makes this movie so entertaining and leaves audience on the edge of there sit is the fact that it is so enigmatic and like the Black swan, you are left to wonder what is real and what was not.
Rear window trailer
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