How BLACK SWAN uses black and white visuals in almost every frame to support its symbolic messages.
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nearly every scene in Black Swan there
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is a monochromatic tug-of-war a JAXA
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position of black and white that
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symbolizes the polar opposite entities
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that Nina is pursuing for the sake of
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her art good and evil precise and
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impulsive innocent girl and sexualized
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woman in this scene the monochromatic
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divide is clear Tamar telling Nina that
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when he looks at her he only sees the
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White Swan
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thus the white walls dominance in the
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background in countless scenes Nina is
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portrayed in white and her environments
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are deliberately monochrome then there’s
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Mila Kunis’s character Lily who Nina
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both fears and envies because she
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epitomizes the turbulent force of the
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Black Swan Lily is almost always shown
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wearing black the black and white visual
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contrasts and the film are far from
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subtle but that may be the point Black
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Swan is a subjective character study and
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the costumes production design and Lee
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boutiques mastery of lightness and dark
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work together to show us the world just
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as Nina sees it in black and white like
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a child seeing the world in overly
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simplified terms
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