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10 février 2011

Movie - Black Swan

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Plot:

A New York City ballet company is preparing for the production of Swan Lake, choosing to cast a new lead to replace current star Beth MacIntyre as the Swan Queen. However, the lead must maintain an adequate portrayal of both the White and Black Swans. Nina Sayers, a dancer, is picked to compete for the part alongside several other young dancers, including newcomer Lily. Nina lives with her caring but overbearing mother Erica, a failed dancer turned amateur artist who tries to control much of Nina's life.

The ballet director, Thomas Leroy, is reluctant to cast Nina. He claims her rigid technique makes her an ideal casting for the White Swan, but she lacks the passion of the darkly sensual Black Swan. During a confrontation over the role, Thomas sees her capacity for passion and gives her the role.

He presents her as his new star during a benefit gala. On her way out, Nina is confronted by a drunken Beth who has obviously been crying. Beth has harsh words for the new star, and brings Nina to tears. Thomas returns just in time to console the young ballerina.

Nina displays a number of psychotic symptoms, including strong delusions and elaborate visual hallucinations. She begins to feel paranoid that Lily, her understudy, is determined to take the lead away from her. Thomas, meanwhile, becomes increasingly critical of Nina's "frigid" dancing as the Black Swan, and tells her that she should stop being such a perfectionist and simply lose herself in the Black Swan role.

Lily appears at Nina's door and convinces her to share a night out. During the night out, she takes drugs and becomes more interested in Lily than the men at the bar. Upon returning to Nina's apartment with Lily, the two have sex after Nina and her mother have an enraged argument. Nina wakes up alone the next morning, and rushes to make it on time to rehearsal. When she enters the studio, she finds Lily dancing as the Swan Queen in her absence. Furious, Nina confronts Lily, and asks her why she did not wake her up in the morning. Lily states that she spent the night with a man whom she met at the club, and teases Nina for fantasizing about her.

The night before the ballet's opening, Nina is rehearsing late and continues to experience strong visual hallucinations, such as her reflection acting independent of her and of Lily and Thomas having sex together backstage. When she returns home, she sees her mother's paintings speaking and mocking her. She also notices that the rash on her shoulder has worsened, with little black barbs poking through her skin. Nina pulls one of the barbs from her skin, and it appears to be a black feather. Nina's eyes appear to turn into reddish swan eyes and her legs violently contort into the shape of a swan's. As she tries to steady herself, she falls and knocks herself out on her bedpost.

Nina awakes the night of the opening performance, locked in her bedroom with her mother. Nina's mother tells her that she called the company and informed them that Nina wasn't feeling well and will not be able to perform. After violently forcing her mother to let her leave, Nina arrives at the theater and immediately prepares herself as the White Swan.

The first act goes poorly; the Prince drops Nina while dancing onstage. Distraught, Nina returns to her dressing room and finds Lily there, dressed in the Black Swan costume. As Lily announces her intention to play the Black Swan, she changes form into Nina herself. Nina and her duplicate wrestle, with Nina shoving her into a full-length mirror, and during the ensuing scuffle, takes a shard of the mirror and stabs her duplicate, killing her. Upon realizing what she has done, she sees that the body is Lily's. After hiding Lily's body, Nina returns to the stage and dances the Black Swan (the third act of Swan Lake), passionately and sensually, growing black feathers all over her body as she dances, her arms becoming black wings as she finally loses herself and transforms into a black swan; at the end of the act, she receives a standing ovation. When she leaves the stage, she finds Thomas and kisses him with seductive power for the first time.

Back in her dressing room, she is interrupted by a knock at her door and opens it to see Lily, who has come to congratulate her. Nina realizes the fight was another hallucination; however, the mirror is still shattered. She notices a wound on her body and realizes that she apparently stabbed herself as the White Swan, not Lily. Back on stage, Nina dances passionately and seamlessly in the fourth and final act as the White Swan. In the last moments of the ballet, when the Swan is supposed to kill herself by jumping off a cliff on the stage, the audience erupts in thunderous applause while the cast discovers Nina lying on the safety mattress backstage. After Thomas enthusiastically congratulates her on her performance, Lily gasps in horror as she, Thomas, and the cast see that Nina is covered in blood. Though Nina lies wounded and perhaps dying, she feels content that everything she went through helped her to achieve a perfect performance. The film draws to a close with Nina staring up at the stage lights while whispering "I felt it. Perfect. I was perfect," as the screen fades to white and the audience chants her name.

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9 février 2011

If only I could ...

There is no seaview (at least there is nothing written about it) for this one but it looks gorgeous ! 200 square meters, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. The floor is not mentionned but the building seems to have 11 floors. 160 000 TL. The Interior designor who made that flat has very nice taste (from my point of view. I like a lot the Chesterfield white coaches mixed with the other black and red pieces of furniture and accessories). It looks perfect. Nothing has to be done !

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8 février 2011

Watches - Swatch LOVE collection

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The blue one is called: Blessing of LOVE - The pink one is called: Belief of LOVE

7 février 2011

Life is short !

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4 février 2011

Fill in the blank Friday

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1.  If I could only read one magazine publication for the rest of eternity, I would choose    Vogue magazine.

2.  If I were to run my own magazine it would be    about fashion, food and travel.

3.  I buy my magazines (at the grocery check stand or via subscription)     at the press stand. I have a couple of subscriptions but I rather prefer to grab them live, have a look and pay for it.

4.  I prefer my magazines (in print or online)   in print hands down.

5.  The number of magazines I buy each month is   I used to buy a lot. Now it depends on how often I go to the press shop.

6. My favorite magazine genre is (lifestyle, gossip, home, etc...)       fashion, home design.

7.  The magazines I read regularly are Vogue, Elle, Geo, Victoria .

As Lauren @ http://thelittlethingswedo.blogspot.com/ is having some technical problems with some providers who want to charge her for sharing link services, I think we need to check the comments section to be able to see today's participants' answers to this "Fill in the blank Friday" . Have a great week end Girls !

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3 février 2011

Happy Chinese New Year

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR !

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2 février 2011

Happy Groundhog Day

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Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated on February 2nd in the United States and Canada. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter-like weather will soon end. If it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.

1 février 2011

Fashion - Spring 2011

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Jean-Paul Gaultier - Spring 2011 (via http://www.hautecouturista.com/)

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Stéphane Rolland - Spring 2011 (via http://www.hautecouturista.com/)

1 février 2011

Watches - Swatch Lady Collection

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I had seen the ad regarding this new Swatch couple weeks ago in my favorite turkish magazine which is called "Süper". Their webpage link is http://www.super-dergi.com/. I went to different Swatch store but no one had heard about this watch ! This morning when I opened my facebook page it was there ! Hurray ! that means that I am going to be able to find it soon and get one. I want it purple.

31 janvier 2011

THE bag of my dreams ...

Last time I flew to London, there was this woman who carried it... When I went to Nice last week and stopped by the window shop it was there...

THE CHANEL Cruise 2011: St. Tropez Classic Flap Bag.

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It is a pretty expensive bag (1 400 euros). I shall get organized and start to save money to get it (maybe) ... in black.

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