{"id":8137,"date":"2026-10-17T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2026-10-17T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:01:30","slug":"black-swan-by-darren-aronofsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/10\/17\/black-swan-by-darren-aronofsky\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Black Swan<\/em> by Darren Aronofsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 While I\u2019m not into classical ballet (modern is fine), the screenplay makes <em>Swan Lake<\/em> surprisingly gripping.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Superior cast, gorgeously playing the roles assigned to them in Sayers\u2019s mind. (Particularly Kunis\u2019s are awesome.)<\/p>\n<p>\u274c That Lane and Prosa weren\u2019t properly credited is unforgivable.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c Breathlessly clich\u00e9-ridden.<\/p>\n<p>That it\u2019s <em>psychological<\/em> horror apparently escaped sundry critics who reviewed a movie that only exists in their expectations.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"important\">Addendum<\/span><br \/>\nWith some body horror thrown in, I forgot to mention.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a target=\"somethingUnique\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Swan_(film)\"><em>Black Swan<\/em><\/a> by Darren Aronofsky, 2010.<br \/>\nWatched at the Bambi theater on October 13, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/10\/17\/black-swan-by-darren-aronofsky\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky\"><p>\ud83c\udfac With some body horror thrown in, I forgot to mention.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}