About Swans
If any movie has a soul, then "Black Swan" is definitely one such kind. This film is a mixture of many ideas.
It's a tribute to the method of Stanislavski - a beautiful envisioning of how far an individual can reach in living through the role that is required... It's about loosing a mind whilst trying to acquire a new one - something that actors are required to do by the nature of their profession...
It's a tribute to ambiguity of a human soul - the evil and the pure, hiding within the same net of soul...
And it's a tribute to being in the right place. The genius can only be achieved if one is doing what one was born to be doing, unable to do anything else, driven by the power within to practice and practice to make excellence. But practice alone, of course, does not make a genius...