Black Swan, the Movie

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Nina, which is Natalie Portman, is a ballerina in the state of New York. Her whole life revolves around dancing and she lives with her mom who is an obsessive ballerina that could not become known because she got pregnant. When the director of the ballet company deciders to replace Beth MacIntyre for the new production, Swan Lake, Nina is the girl he picks. But Nina has competition when a new ballerina shows up. Swan Queen is required to be the White Swan and Black Swan. Nina is only able to play the White one showing innocence but not the Black one showing sensuality. The two rivals start a odd friendship and Nina gets in touch with her dark side.
The disorder Nina has is easily confused as schizophrenia but it is psychosis. Psychosis is a disorder which contains schizophrenia in it along with schizoaffective and schizophreniform. In this group there are a serious amount of illnesses that affect the mind of a person. The person can't think clearly, communicate effectively, behave their normal way, and understand what is going on. When the symptoms of the three disorder turn severe it become psychosis the person loses touch with reality and can't act normal. The symptoms of Psychosis vary between people. The major ones are hallucinations and delusions. Some possible symptoms are problems with relationships, mood swings, detached manner, unusual behavior, confusion, and lack of insight.
Nina does experience all these symptoms. In a scence she is on the train and sees a girl identical to her dressed in black on the other side of the door but when the girl gets off she sees it is not her. She sees herself in others a lot of times but dressed in Black as her "evil twin." When she walks into her moms painting room ...

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...ondition a lot better and would have not committed suicide. I believe this because she would have realized that all these delusions were not really happening and that no one was at competition with her.
In this movie the character has a disorder called Psychosis. It is a disorder that contains other ones within it like schizophrenia which is why it is easily confused with that one. The difference is it diagnosis a person with a problem that the person loses touch with reality. Throughout the movie you see Nina a New York ballet performer try to play two roles the White Swan and Black Swan. She gets involved with the black side and starts to show her rebellious side. She sees her dark side when she is walking around and hears voices say "sweet girl." This condition can be treated with medicine and pills if it is diagnosed which it was not in the movie.

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