Black Swan Ending, Explained
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is tragic and beautiful all at once as it depicts the mental, emotional, and physical sacrifices made by a tortured ballerina, who will accept nothing short of perfection when it comes to her performance. Academy Award-winner Natalie Portman plays Nina Sayers, a young woman who, like her mother, has always found herself in the background of ballet productions. However, when there is an opening for the Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, a role in which one ballerina must portray the innocent and pure White Swan (Odette) as well as the horrifying and vindictive Black Swan (Odile), Nina goes to extreme lengths to secure her spot as the lead.