‘Black Swan’ Trailer Promises Pirouettes, Passion and Paranoia
by Ben Bussey
(P-P-P-Please excuse that P-P-P-porky Pig of a headline…)
On the same day that a trailer was released for a new Wes Craven movie that looks so mind-numbingly prosaic and uninventive that we’re not going to post it here, Mother Internet also saw fit to gift us with this little beauty: the trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s latest, Black Swan. It’s fascinating; it’s haunting; it leaves you with very little idea what to expect from the final movie. Put simply, it’s everything that the My Soul To Take trailer isn’t.
Now most sites reporting on this have chosen to focus on the sight of leading lady Natalie Portman kissing her co-star Mila Kunis. We at Brutal As Hell are above such shallowness. There’s a great deal more going on here than that fleeting moment of Ms Portman dashing toward Ms Kunis, locking her in a passionate embrace and sliding their moist parted lips against one another, and since the trailer came online we have certainly not spent all our time endlessly replaying that moment that runs from the 1 minute 25 second mark to the 1 minute 27 second mark. Ahem.
So yes, if you can manage to look beyond those two seconds… there’s the promise of something really different and exciting here. With its theatrical setting, there are of course echoes of Argento – Suspiria in particular, perhaps also a little Terror At The Opera – yet the lo-fi handheld camerawork doesn’t feel lightyears away from Aronofsky’s last The Wrestler. But while that was a terrific movie, it was uncharacteristically down to earth for the director. No fear, though, as from the looks of things this could be a genre-bending descent into madness in much the same spirit as his mindblowing (or should that be mind-drilling?) directorial debut Pi.
And in case you’re not sure it belongs on a horror site… take look at those last two shots.
Fox Searchlight are set to release Black Swan to cinemas in December. Be there. Oh, who am I kidding, you’re not reading this, you’ve clicked straight to the 1 minute 25 mark…
