MOVIE REVIEW: Black Swan

Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is a fiercely dedicated ballet dancer who is also an obsessively meticulous perfectionist. An example of her compulsive behavior is akin to a situation when you have a hangnail; you attempt to get rid of it by peeling it off, only to result in pain as well as making it look much worse than before. There is a reason why they use this visual image early in “Black Swan