If you noticed, the mom wore black, lily wore black and the director wore black and white and Nina wore white. Assuming the final scene of Black Swan is not a hallucination, Nina injured herself some significant time earlier in her dressing room and danced two entire sections as the black, and then the white, swan, which included a costume change. Black Swan is ionospherically over the top, and some of its effects are overdone, but it is richly, sensually enjoyable and there is such fascination in … This movie is about a woman haunted by her own performance and how anyone who plays the black swan gets possessed by the “black Swan” which is a supernatural entity, who also haunted the previous primary. Even if the timeline itself is also a hallucination, she at least danced the final (vigorous) scene, so the injury can't have been that serious. I personally don't think the person she saw as Lily is real. She goes out with Lily, to get drunk, to get high, and to get laid Dec. 20, 2010— -- Black Swan, a new psycho-drama anchored in the competitive world of ballet, is getting as much analysis on the psychiatrist's couch as it is Oscar buzz. Meanwhile, Nina frequently hallucinates a phantom doppelgänger that seems to mean her harm. The black swan of the movie, the evil twin, would be the ballerina who looks shockingly similar to Nina – Lily. Yes, Lily is not actually here. Head!Lily makes out with Thomas in Nina's vision, while real!Lily gets enraged at Thomas for allowing the very late Nina to still go on as the Swan Queen. Blake Lively and Bond girl Eva Green both read for Lily, until Portman suggested that Kunis play the part, as the two were friends. Did her and Lily really have sex and Lily was just trying to make Nina feel crazy by telling her they didnt, or did they really not? The movie isn’t a documentary about the real life specifics of being a ballet dancer. Black Swan was one of the /Filmcast’s favorite films of the year. Lily is what she needs to strive to be, to become sexually. The show begins. When Lily visits her at her house, Nina takes Thomas’ advice and acts on impulse. Imaginary-Lily suggests that she should do the Black Swan as Nina will not be able to. Over the course of the next several scenes, head!Lily and real!Lily alternate. Back in the changing room, Nina’s insecurities cause her to imagine Lily sitting and preparing for the Black Swan. Vogue 81,456 views. The real Lily (Nina's mother sees her, other girls see her, Thomas fucks her, so she's real) is just a dancer, but as Nina sees her Black Swan reflected on her, she imagines another Lily (the one she has sex with, the one she stabs), wich is just a proyection of her Black Swan. In a real sense, Nina must lust for her. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. And whether or not it is real or just a part of the psychotic breakdown, it is Lily who seduces the director and the actual male dancer who is playing the role of the prince. Nina wants to be Lily, as Lily is her role model for the Black Swan. When Swan Lake came around she wanted the part to the White/Black swan like no one else. Lesbian Scene Analysis: ‘Black Swan’ ... Nina has finally found her objet d’art in Lily. Evil Counterpart: Lily might be this to Nina (that is the Black Swan to her White). So i just saw the movie Black Swan last night, and im trying to figure out what parts were really happening and what was just her imagination. It’s part of her growing sexuality, while also being part of the fear and fragility she needs as the White Swan. This is nothing to do with the movie. So it’s likely that Nina imagined Lily and Thomas together because it helps her imagine herself and Thomas together. She is only fit to be the white swan and Lily is the ideal black swan. Loading... Unsubscribe from ABC News? Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: The ballet company's interpretation of the black swan. Real!Lily flirts with her fellow dancers, but head!Lily is in Nina's dressing room. But as Nina believes Lily is to her what she herself was to Beth, Nina, in doing whatever it takes to be perfect as both the white swan and the black swan, descends into madness.