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Dark Bird Ascending: Aronofsky's latest triumph

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Brett Alan Dewing
Jan 04, 2011
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Darren Aronofsky's new film, Black Swan, is in almost every way a companion piece to his last one, The Wrestler.  While that movie examined a society in which masculinity has been made into a bloody spectator sport, this one follows a young woman torn in two by a culture that wants her simultaneously to be an infantilized and idealized Little Princess a…

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