Plot
Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.
Keywords: actress-breaking-typecast, ambiguous-ending, animal-in-title, animal-metamorphosis, anorexia, applause, applying-makeup, artist, audition, backstage
Thomas Leroy: This is your moment, Nina. Don't let it go.
Andrew: You haven't told me who you are.::Nina: I'm a dancer.::Andrew: No, I meant your name.::Nina: Oh, Nina.::Tom: So are you two sisters?::Nina: No.::Lily: Yes! Blood sisters.::Nina: We dance in the same company.::Tom: Ah, ballerinas. No wonder you two look alike.::Lily: So, you know, Tom and Jerry here are gay lovers.::Andrew: I've never been to the ballet.::Lily: Well then you are definitely not gay.::Tom: I think it's kind of boring though, isn't it?::Nina: No it's not!::Lily: No. You know what? It's just not for everyone.
Erica: What happened to my sweet girl?::Nina: She's gone!
Nina: I just want to be perfect.
Thomas Leroy: The only person standing in your way is you.
Thomas Leroy: That was me seducing you. It needs to be the other way around.
Lily: C'mon, I'm about to burst!
[last lines]::Thomas Leroy: Nina, what did you do?::Nina: I felt it. Perfect. I was perfect.
Lily: How about I dance the Black Swan for you?
Nina: It's about a girl who gets turned into a swan and she needs love to break the spell, but her prince falls for the wrong girl so she kills herself.
[first lines]::[Rita slaps Yulik in the face]::[he speaks with long pauses between sentences]::Yulik Krymov: I'm surprised. Rita... How could you... treat this seriously? Some crazy woman wrote a letter. Isn't she raving? Nonsense, isn't it? Please... you're a mom... Okay, what if someone writes tomorrow that I have a triplet? I can swear I don't remember her at all! It was twenty years ago.::Rita Krymova: I just wonder how you are going to tell the kids about it.
Yulik Krymov: What's doing at school?::Anya: Pushkin.::Yulik Krymov: Pushkin what?::Anya: Poems.
[last lines]::Yulik Krymov: He just wanted to protect us, do you understand? Just to protect, nothing else.
Pavlik: [Pavlik and Yulik are in a mental hospital. They see a moaning man. His mother and wife are next to him and don't understand what's wrong with him] It's the wall pressing him! Don't you understand? Lieutenant, don't worry, it won't fall! Just move a bit to the side and that's it! Right, dad? [the lieutenant goes silent. Pause]::Yulik Krymov: Let's get out of here. [stands up] Come on.
Yegor: Wait a minute. He's coming. Just don't laugh.
A very sad comedy
Plot
A young American man in Russia in the 1920s to help build a factory makes a request to go home to the U.S. He is told that he will have to renounce his American citizenship; when he refuses, he is tried for treason and sentenced to life in the Soviet prison system, where he spends the next 38 years.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, gulag, immigrant, siberia, soviet-union, teenager
Galina, a hard working boatman
But her husband, he was just too poor
Galina, got fed up with the hard life
So she nailed him to the bedroom floor
Down and out she sailed into the mist
Showing hairy breasts, and a giant fist
Watch out you lousy men,
cause now she's really pissed
Galina, she is a crazy boatman
Her daughters, they are crazy too
Together, they sail across the ocean
They are searching for love and new tattoos
Up and down the coast they are raping men
Plundering the villages, and raping again
Spitting on the women, and stealing all they can
Galina the pirate of the Baltic sea
Scaring the sailors away
Galina the mistress of misery
Turning the blue skies to grey
Galina, she is a crazy boatman
An her daughters, they are crazy too
Lang ago she sailed into the mist
Showing hairy breasts and her giant fist
Watch out you lousy men,
cause she's still very pissed
Galina the pirate of the Baltic sea
Scaring the sailors away