Black Swan

I came home from work yesterday to find my housemate watching Black Swan on DVD. I missed it at the cinema so I appreciated the opportunity to see it.

I was left wondering what the point was - the psychology struck me as rather overwrought, and I'm not sure what the film was getting at. That someone who is manipulated by both authority figures in her life may crack up under pressure is hardly the most earth-shattering insight, and to suggest that expressing both eroticism and innocence will drive a woman mad is distasteful to say the least.