Patch Movie Review

"Black Swan"

Viewing this film is a date with the sublime.

There are movies that when audiences leave the theater -  they never speak of them again. Not because the film is bad but because it is so utterly forgettable. Then there are films like Black Swan.  Viewing Black Swan is a date with the sublime.  It is a film that invites the viewer to get lost in its world, colors, thrills, and then escape from the theater electrified. Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is an innocent, virginal, ballerina whose figure is as malnourished as her mind.  Her bedroom is like a child's, with pink wallpaper, stuffed animals, and even a jewelry box that plays her to sleep to the tune of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.   The room is her prison and her mother (Barbara Hersey,) a failed ballerina with an unrelenting need to see…

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