Nina fights to win the starring role in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, a character which requires expression of both the good White Swan, and the evil Black Swan. Her mother than takes the entire cake and threatens to throw it in the garbage. One scene particularly captures this dysfunctional relationship – Erica offers Nina the first piece of a cake she bought to celebrate Nina getting the lead and Nina refuses it. Erica is narcissistic, spending all of her time painting pictures of herself and completely infringing on Nina’s space and well-being. Nina’s disordered relationship with her roommate mother Erica, played by Barbara Hershey, sets the stage for Nina’s psychological breakdown. The dark drama The Black Swan is built around the psychological illness of its protagonist, Nina Sayers, beautifully and disturbingly portrayed by Natalie Portman.
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