The Most Confusing Film of 2010!

My friend Helen and me enjoy watching movies and knitting at the same time. We recently decided, as middle aged gals, that a film about ballet dancing would be enticing. But this one really hits a bad note.

Natalie Portman (Anywhere but Here, Closer) plays a young girl who loves dancing. She's a perfectionist and has a caring mother who looks after her. She also has an evil twin sister that for some reason pops out of nowhere on occasion, usually when she's walking the streets at night. Where this twin sister lives Helen and me had no clue. It was a random character.

Portman desperately wants the part of the Swan Queen in the new show a sexy director is putting together. She wins the part after wooing him in his office, but for some reason she has issues with another fellow dancer- Mila Kunis. Kunis mocks Portman in almost a sexual manner, and the two have a sexual fling later suggesting that Nina is in fact- a lesbian.

Then (SPOILER) - she discovers the director is having sex with Kunis, and wants to give her the part instead. Nina is able to kill off Kunis in the dressing room, and then perform- but she dies on stage, with her mother in the audience. Winona Ryder has a brief role as a former has-been dancer that used to sleep with the director too.

Overall this harrowing and confusing story had Helen and me sewing almost right away. We would glance up at the screen on ocassion but for the most part stuck to our knitting. The twist ending makes no sense because it seems like she commits suicide but the ending is left ambiguous.

FINAL GRADE: C for Confusing!