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Snake5555555555 posted...

NICE write-up! The imagery definitely is striking, still sticks out in my brain 12 years on. ESPECIALLY the toe-nail.

Thanks! And yeah... lots of visceral imagery perfectly juxtaposed with the hotness of two very, VERY gorgeous women. I looked away from the toenail to check my own in response; I can handle some blood, just not the guts (that's why you don't see many horror movies on here). The timing is very, very eerie to me given how my nail's gonna fall off tonight or tomorrow. It's also Murphy's Law since the pool just closed at my building and that was what was preventing me from swimming, since it was like a "flap" that was super painful. Thus, I can kinda understand how painful that injury was. But yeah, enough on toenail injuries.

Really, Natalie Portman played the role of Nina perfectly. She sold the schizophrenia really well, and that made for a fantastic psychological thriller. She's a great actress so this does not surprise me. Mila Kunis also did a fantastic job - and I could tell the difference between Lily's "real" self and the hallucinations. I think she recognized that she had to treat those as two separate characters - think Persona 5, where there's someone's real-world self and the cognitive version in a Palace (this isn't a spoiler for P5, really).

This is probably the kind of movie you have to watch a second time to fully appreciate. And probably more context from having actually seen Swan Lake instead of just knowing the gist of it.