2011-01-18, 01:24 PM
Portman already won the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role as Nina in the film.
Also, I completely agree with OP. I saw Inception for the first time a few days ago, and Black Swan the night after, and while Inception was a phenomenal movie (amazing special effects, cinematography, and, obviously, a brilliantly mind blowing plot), it was something I could see once and say "okay, I get it. Cool story, glad I know it." But ultimately I felt like it had a lot of similarities to movies like The Matrix trilogy, Shutter Island, and even Secret Window; in other words, I felt it expanded upon the theme of psychological thriller by including sci-fi elements, but in the end it wasn't unbelievably groundbreaking as I would have hoped (again, I was already making connections to The Matrix while watching it for the first time).
Black Swan, on the other hand, is definitely a film I'd love to see a second time in theatres as well (if only I had a theatre accessible to me here at school). While the plot is not as elaborately constructed as that of Inception, the precision in capturing the spectrum of human emotion not just in Natalie Portman's character, but across the cast of characters as well, and to deliver that sensation to the audience through the powerfully beautiful works of Tchaikovsky...it's definitely something of its own.
tl;dr: Absolutely loved Black Swan, and hopes it wins Best Picture, but I'd be fine with something like Inception winning if it doesn't.
Also, I completely agree with OP. I saw Inception for the first time a few days ago, and Black Swan the night after, and while Inception was a phenomenal movie (amazing special effects, cinematography, and, obviously, a brilliantly mind blowing plot), it was something I could see once and say "okay, I get it. Cool story, glad I know it." But ultimately I felt like it had a lot of similarities to movies like The Matrix trilogy, Shutter Island, and even Secret Window; in other words, I felt it expanded upon the theme of psychological thriller by including sci-fi elements, but in the end it wasn't unbelievably groundbreaking as I would have hoped (again, I was already making connections to The Matrix while watching it for the first time).
Black Swan, on the other hand, is definitely a film I'd love to see a second time in theatres as well (if only I had a theatre accessible to me here at school). While the plot is not as elaborately constructed as that of Inception, the precision in capturing the spectrum of human emotion not just in Natalie Portman's character, but across the cast of characters as well, and to deliver that sensation to the audience through the powerfully beautiful works of Tchaikovsky...it's definitely something of its own.
tl;dr: Absolutely loved Black Swan, and hopes it wins Best Picture, but I'd be fine with something like Inception winning if it doesn't.