Respons s
- emotional response-'disturbing- body horror- transformation- glass -womb- /'broken mirror
Penetration
- spectacle-visual effects- visceral
- intellectual- sub conscious- suppression of animalistic desires- fuck it or kill it
White swan- innocence and virginity- ninas bedroom pink teddies
Casting decisions- Natalie Portman- pre- pubescent
She is manipulated by mother, mila kunis, vince cassell
Mum- cake scene- Freud-
No father figure-arrested development- Oedipal father figure Vinz cassell
Metaphor- coming of age
Death of innocence
Punishment (religious)
Mila kunis- threat- to kill or fuck her
Mirror stage- lacan- reflective- self identity
1- multiple versions/schizophrenia
2- blood mirrors-
Gives you a sort of God like perspective over the film- fantasy- omnipresent
- continuity- nail scene-hallucinations
- breaking the fourth wall/ jump cuts
Omniscient
Alignment- aligned with Nina because we see her visions
Overprotective to the point of damaging her child- abusive
Narcisstic mum-
1- responses- audience factors/extra textual references
2- significance of gender
3- Freud
4- lacan
Conclusion sion-
