...this one regarding recent doubt about how much of Natalie Portman's dancing was actually her own performance.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/feature/2011/03/28/natalie_portman_sarah_lane_black_swan/index.html
The piece asks, appropriately, "why do we care?" I think this is especially fascinating in conjunction with some of the other theories that we have posted and discussed- part of what makes Black Swan "appealing" is the tremendous suffering that Natalie Portman very publicly went through. Why is it assumed that/do we lose respect for her in proportion with presumed pain?
P.S. Love the ballet dancer quoted in this article, basically saying she still respects her because either way she lost "a lot of weight." Yep, there's healthy praise.
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/12/04/behind-the-perfect-body-models-and-bodybuilders/
ReplyDeletethis is a fascinating article about the idea of sacrifice (bodily discipline) as what we really value....