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Edited on Tue Jan-18-11 04:59 PM by UTUSN
Sorry because a couple of DUer reviews (was it Richardo? definitely the movie was The King's Speech) were delivered with good vibes and good nature.
Just gotta say that this movie had some of the creepy vibes of Looking for Mr Goodbar, and this statement includes a bit of that kind of dated feel, too.
I'm trying hard not to set loose spoilers, and don't think this is one, but some of the tensions and stresses in the backstage of ballet and expectations put upon women are upped here a horror notch, but the real life tensions/stresses/expectations of real ballet end up looking as more horrifying in their own terms instead of the "horror movie" terms of this movie. Those real life backstage references might have been expected, as well as the general reference to the actual Swan Lake story line.
This thing was difficult to make and I won't quibble if Natalie PORTMAN takes the Oscar, while I haven't seen any other contenders. But in the decades since I've seen Rosemary's Baby, I'll just say that in that movie the transformation of the lead character was more in relief and startling and the "horror" bits in simple actions like a phone call were more, um, horrifying.
I've got a long history with TCHAIKOVSKY's music, talking hours and hours that would add up to weeks or perhaps even months of life, and including just about all of his stuff, so that was part of the draw for me, and I won't quibble that it was appropriately kept as respected background. And I'm guessing that what might have been a sound system problem was probably a theatrical device. Fine.
But overall, it was mainly two hours of "ewww, ick" and bits of edging up into stomach turning/churning rather than gut wrenching Horror. Sort of more pathetic than tragic. Sorry.
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