maybe it's just because I'm reading Kiss of the Spider Woman at the moment

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but oh man, Black Swan is so deliriously, old-school Hollywood camp OTT, wonderfully enjoyable and terrifically creepy at times, and I really love what Portman did to her head, I don't know, but it is way too big at times, like a funhouse mirror. See, Chloe, THAT'S how you do mirror symbolism; you don't slip it in artfully every now and then to make yourself seem clever, you throw one into every single shot until there's no such thing as reality any more. And Christ knows what the hell Cassell was doing, I cannot figure that guy out. Maybe Aronofsky should direct Eastern Promises 2: Promise Harder.