SPOILER ALERT At the beginning of the film, there's a subtle hint about the fact that Lily herself is making up the whole persecution. You know, when she steals the red lipstick from the previous dancer and starts using it, then, she finds insults on her mirror painted with the exact same red colour, meaning that, although she's the one using it, she also judges herself as a bitch for doing so. God, this films as som many interpretations...
A therapist friend of mine told me once that it is completely normal to do so and that it ususally helps do so for your mental health. Because if you feel really sad and depressed and want to wear dark colors but you force yourself to wear light or colouful things it can completely f*ck up your brain and make it even worse. So they told me to embrace it when something like this happens ^^
I realized that I do this subconsciously. When I'm in a certain mood I would gravitate towards a particular color or style while I'm shopping. I figured out what these colors personally mean to me in relation to my emotions. It helped me become more self aware.
@@kuppeycake6457 Because your brain will have the chemicals that make it sad, for example, but it will see the bright colors (if you associate bright colors with "happy" feelings, some people don't, for some people black is still a happy color it depends on your perception of the colors if you have one) and think "I have to be happy but I'm not Oh gosh darn it!" But like I said above some people don't associate colors with special moods or feelings. And of course, for some people, it helps them feel better and "influence" their brains in the way they want to feel. So don't worry it is not going to necessarily F up your brain, it's just if you really feel like dressing in a certain color your brain might "feel" it as soothing.
@@Chinni_C888 I personally wouldnt call it graphic, but it is quite dark in tone. I'd suggest just skipping it if it makes you uncomfortable; as long as you get the message/idea, then you can understand the rest of the story perfectly :)
I agree- "Black Swan" is one of my favorite movies as well! I also really enjoyed and appreciated this analysis of the movie. I love fashion so I enjoy hearing the aspects of it discussed in a deep, meaningful, and intelligent way
For anyone who’s interested in psychoanalysis and Freud, I highly recommend the documentary “The Century of the Self”. It’ll make you question every decision you’ve ever made.
I watched Black Swan when it was released years ago and I remember enjoying it even though I was confused. I had no idea the film was a representation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory! Your costume and styling analysis of the Nina's superego, ego and id throughout the movie is spot on. This definitely calls for a rewatch! Bonus: I love the Grey Color Psychology notes in the middle of the video. "Because of its range, grey is connected to intellect and compromise. It's very diplomatic in nature, negotiating all the distance between black and white. It's not a color of extremes, but rather of middle ground." I'll never look at my grey hoodie the same way again haha
All coming of age stories follow the same pattern. I personally see them through an Jungian lens, instead of Freudian... It’s a feminine perspective on the same process that we saw in Fight Club, only that there there were two males: Edward Norton/ Nina and Brad Pitt/Lily, while Helena Bonham Carter would be Thomas in Black Swan. Same structure.
This movie kills me- it came out while I was doing my English lit degree and I wrote a lot about the didactic moral functions of fairy tales and this was perfect for it. It’s a fascinating exploration of femininity, self identity, existing as a woman against other women and in society- duality and or dichotomy it hits every note you could want from the way the actors and backgrounds are styled- the sound design, psychologically it’s fascinating from the actors portrayals too. And I like the ambiguous ending, I’ll be honest all these years later... I’m not even sure how I read it. I’ve read it hopeful and I’ve read it bleak, I’ve read it as fantasy and reality and there always seems to be about as much weight and truth to one as the next. And aside from how masterful everything else is, I think it’s uncertainty is what makes that movie so great. It’s heavy handed with symbolism and imagery but it doesn’t give you any real answers in the end and leaves you to think on it. I think there’s a reason it’s probably the directors most acclaimed film.
In my opinion Nina at the end accomplishes her goal and transcends her former frozen in childhood state. As you’ve said, the movie is relying heavily on metaphor and symbolism to show Nina’s transition from childhood to adulthood, her being an arrested development case, obviously. Therefore, many scenes are not to be taken literally, but in terms of metaphor to show her mental and emotional state. She is not literally growing black feathers- that is a symbol used to represent her inner dark, repressed psyche coming to surface, with an unstoppable force. Her mother clips her nails, symbolizing the overbearing mother who clips and blocks any growth her daughter could have. Nina doesn’t break her legs in a literal sense, it is again, another symbol meant to show how her way of navigating through life ( we move in life through our legs, right?) is broken and won’t work anymore. Nina doesn’t have sex with Lily, she only unites with her (repressed) sexuality , which she projected on Lily, Lily being a sexually free woman ( she represents the flow to Nina’s control, we are told), and in the end we see she doesn’t kill literally Lilly, what she killed was her projection of her own inner black swan on Lily. Only once with withdraw our projections can we start to integrate those aspects into ourselves, which Nina does. All Nina’s “madness” is a metaphor, in my opinion, to show her real self, her actualized womanhood ( the black swan) , coming to surface, in a violent way, but that’s because Nina projected evil onto it through her desperate clinging to innocence and being a “good sweet girl”( mommy’s girl). Because all the movie relies on symbols and is not to be taken literally , I think the ending is to be seen and interpreted through the same symbolic, not literal, way. In the end we are told “I felt it, I was perfect”, meaning the transcendence Thomas talked about in the beginning was achieved by her and she successfully integrated her repressed side, which was womanhood ( the black swan) , with all it’s complexities and darkness and sexuality, all part of the adult life, which for such a long time she repressed. Finally, “through death she found liberation” as the white swan’s story goes. Meaning the white swan, Nina’s good girl, innocent side dies, and the new self, a woman, not a child, takes its place. What died was Nina’s former self, who could no longer live. In order to become adults we must give up childhood, and in that sense, the child we once were must die, with all it’s naivety , innocence and “pinkness”. Natalie Portman mentioned in an interview how the blood at the end is meant to symbolize period, therefore another symbol of coming into womanhood. The ending is left ambiguous purposefully, because it is the type of mind fuck movie, and those are best left that way. Exactly like in Inception, another inner journey story, told through metaphors and symbols, the only way through which you can express the mysterious nature of our psyches and inner realities. It is my absolute favorite movie of all times and it’s an absolute masterpiece!
@Joeyr Boomer yourself, Sex and the City is still a very popular show with a lot of relevancy in it's female characters. You can't just throw the word boomer anytime you disagree with someone makes you sound like a child and makes the rest of us look bad
I remember hearing that the blood at the end was also made to look like she got her period... purposefully, so that this transition she went through, now she is finally a woman and no longer the scared little mama's girl. she transformed, but to what cost? did she actually kill herself, will she be saved? ... All SHE cared about at the end was that she did the black swan perfectly. I think i remember initially thinking she died, but now, i think she just fully flipped, into her mental illness + became her fullest self- bad sides and all. The cost of that was just she lost her sanity. maybe i'm wrong. but the movie is so good.
I don’t think the ending is to be taken literally, because all movie is very metaphorical and relies heavily on symbolism. I think the ending symbolized her old self dying , her innocence dying and her merging with her highest potential, and in order to get to that she had to go through her repressed dark side. A lot of things don’t literally happen in the movie, they are just meant to symbolize her inner process and transition: she doesn’t literally grow feathers, she doesn’t break her legs, she doesn’t have sex with Lily, etc. They are symbols and visual imagery used to express her inner process, feelings, psychic projections, etc. That’s why I personally don’t think she dies at the end, only her outdated previous self is transcended, which was the goal in the first place. As she said “ I felt it, I was perfect”. She accomplished her goal and the transition has been made. We see the exact same process shown in Fight Club, only there we have two make protagonists- Ed Norton/ Nina, and his antagonist Brad Pitt/ Lily. In the end it is revealed that it was all happening in his head, and his “insanity” is also not meant to be taken literal. It is again, a symbol.
i dunno, i mean it shows herself taking out the piece of glass she stuck into her self earlier and I don't know why people would think its her period when it shows her pulling out the glass from the wound.
Do Daenerys Targaryen! Her outfits start off pale and flowy while she's an innocent little girl then start getting more saturated and incorporating dragon symbolism as she becomes the mad queen.
I don’t think the outfits have anything to do with her becoming ‘the mad queen’ as for starters the show doesn’t do a good job getting to that end point. But I do think the outfits represent for the last remaining women of power in the show is that they have to start off pretending to be womanly (the clothing is a signal of their station in life-only an object to be trading off its beauty). As the women Cersei, Daenerys, & Sansa grow in power their clothing grows in harshness of lines, as was mentioned in this video early on. It is a signal to the audience that the woman is taking on what society perceives as manly qualities (anger, authority, confidence). The more power Dany gains the less she has to use her body to be influential. Until at the very end the only parts of her body we see that indicate she is in fact a woman is her face and hair. But her hair is braided as an indicator of her NEVER losing a battle in the Dothraki tradition. So even that changes to a masculine indicator of power by the time she comes to that mess of an ending she was given.
They costume director said the more battles she won the more braids they would put in daenerys hair. It becomes more and more elaborate as the seasons go on. I thought that was a cool touch, a shout out to her adopted darthraki culture
BlairWaldorf2013 No, because Daenerys was already exhibiting signs of “madness” way back when she was still wearing white flowy dresses (when she fed one of the former Masters to her dragons without conclusively determining his guilt, all to show off her power). Throughout the entire show, she’s always killed people she deemed evil and/or inconvenienced her. Way back in season 2 she threatened that if Qarth turned her away she would come back “with fire and blood”. She burned the Dothraki’s temple down, for fuck’s sake. She destroyed their culture, and they bowed to her for it like she wasn’t a murderous colonizer. And somehow in the final season everyone is surprised that she did the exact thing she always said she would?
The reason why Daenerys Targaryen wears a lot of blue is because the Khalasar that Khal drogo belonged to had the colour blue to identify themselves, and it's different for every Khalasar. Also I think during the later seasons she sheds off the blue and starts wearing her house colour more and more to transform herself into the dragon she would be
Natalie said once that the blood in the end represents a first period, like she is becomig a woman. I looove that movie, have a tattoo of it and everything
@@gqah8744 I have a feather on my ribs and one side is white, delicate and perfect, the other is black, intense and messy, with the quote "perfection is not just about control, it's also about letting go"
i dont know if anyone noticed this but when she's wearing or not wearing earings it represents her and childishness & maturity. when she's wearing earrings the childlike/white swan personality of nina is what's in play but when she's is portrayed with no earrings the blackswan/mature side is most dominant
This is such an interesting and well-made video, as always. I love how you're always able to link psychology and fashion, I don't think there's another channel like yours at the moment. I can't wait for Aria and Effy's style analysis, but keep time for yourself as well ❤️
This is one of the best analyzes I've seen about this movie and the fact that my college major is psychology and that I'm a ballerina, has captured all my interest. You do an excellent job!🌸✨
Fantastic video! I’m a Psych major myself and you nailed Freud’s ideas spot on! I love seeing so much psychoanalysis go into a film-especially the costume choices.
You're legit one of my favourite youtube channels! You always do such great topics that I can't see anyone else doing and you're editing and video quality is great. I wish more people talked about Black Swan it's so clever.
I love this movie, it`s so interesting and full of symbolism that is easy to understand, yet it also has many layers and can be understood/interpreted in different ways. Great analysis!
Also shares similarities to Perfect Blue. A pop idol in Japan decides to pursue acting and her first role is in a gritty crime drama. The film focuses on the pure, virginal image that idols in Japan are supposed to follow similar to how Nina plays the role of the innocent little girl to please her overbearing mother.
@@CleverAndChic I really like your insights on style and psychology, I know this might be difficult but if possible can you please analyze Hye jung's style from the Korean drama "doctors" the drama is kina typical but I really liked the style and it would be very interesting to see your perspective and views on how it corelates with her character arch.
Love your video it was simply spectacular! Have you ever considered doing a video on Game of Thrones fashion styles with characters like Mageary Tyrell and Sansa. I would love those videos.
I'm sorry! but that opening costume is a classical tutu, not a romantic tutu. romantic tutus are more like what you'd see in Giselle, the sort of calf length, tulle tutus. classical tutus are also known as pancake tutus (which makes sense when you see them). not to be that girl but romantic and classical tutus are two wholeee seperate things and are used for two completely different eras, styles, and aesthetics within ballet performance. other than that, fantastic and very interesting analysis!! edit: i realised when i said chiffon i meant tulle, the word completely got mixed up when i wrote this hahaha
Thank you so much for the correction/explanation! I always found costuming for ballet so beautiful. I wish I could go back and edit to do it justice haha. I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed 🖤
@@CleverAndChic of course! there's a lot of misinformation around ballet/dance in general so i like to be able to correct people from the point of view of a dancer. one of my favourite things about being a dancer (especially for ballet) is the pretty costumes we get to wear for shows and concerts! you should have a look at some of the costumes from The Australian Ballet 'The Sleeping Beauty', it's one of my favourites in terms of the detailing on the costumes. it was a genuinely fascinating video to watch, not even the sort of thing most people would notice but costuming is so so significant and your analysis was super interesting! genuinely really enjoyed watching ❤️
i love this movie so much!! tbh I didn't pay to much to the wardrobe aside from the stage outfits but your analysis was great. i loved seeing the designers' sketches as well
For me this was a great analysis, really. You explained well things like superego, id and ego. It is helpful to understand BTS concept, the song black swan is inspired by this movie, and they also refer to ego, etc.
I always kinda wanted to watch this film but I was afraid because I am very sensitive when it comes to scary movies. I’m 19 now, do you guys think I can take it? Or is it like a horror movie? Great video btw.
Watch it. It's kind of a hard psychological and dark movie but it's not "horror" per se, so you should be fine. (A tiny bit of uncomfortable body transformation though.)
Thank you! It's a psychological thriller/drama, but I kept out the harsher hallucinations since I didn't want to show that in case it was too disturbing. So it's not a horror film, but has horror elements
It's more disturbing than traditionally scary like it messes with your emotions so if you're worried about that maybe don't watch it but otherwise if you're worried about it being like a scary movie don't be it's really great
One of the teachers of my school made some of his then-students watch this back in 2012... My father said that they were scared and the same students told me exactly the same thing
I loved this video, good job 💞 Btw if you loved Black swan you'll probably enjoy Perfect Blue because Black swan is heavily influenced by this animated movie!
Do a "Girlfriends" clothing analysis- Netflix just picked up the series and I love Joan Clayton's style on that show! Just discovered you and am enjoying these videos- new subscriber here!
I loved the content of the video but the music is just annoying. This video has a calm voice talking about art and the rave going on in the background really distracts from what you're saying...
I never realized the costuming was designed by a fashion label! It was so beautiful and natural I thought it was typical ballerina wear.
there was also a professional dancewear company called Yumiko that facilitated the costuming
SPOILER ALERT
At the beginning of the film, there's a subtle hint about the fact that Lily herself is making up the whole persecution. You know, when she steals the red lipstick from the previous dancer and starts using it, then, she finds insults on her mirror painted with the exact same red colour, meaning that, although she's the one using it, she also judges herself as a bitch for doing so.
God, this films as som many interpretations...
You mean Nina? Lily was her "twisted friend"
@@parfum_d.etoiles You're right. My bad.
Great pick up 👍watched this film so many times and never even realised this before
So self sabotage?
@Jacoby Jadiel We don’t
does anyone else ever feel like dressing for their mental state or portraying a better one through their outfit?
A therapist friend of mine told me once that it is completely normal to do so and that it ususally helps do so for your mental health. Because if you feel really sad and depressed and want to wear dark colors but you force yourself to wear light or colouful things it can completely f*ck up your brain and make it even worse. So they told me to embrace it when something like this happens ^^
I realized that I do this subconsciously. When I'm in a certain mood I would gravitate towards a particular color or style while I'm shopping. I figured out what these colors personally mean to me in relation to my emotions. It helped me become more self aware.
@@Piti_Pingu so like fuck up your brain and make it worse how? 😅 *me sweating whilst day drinking in my pastel jumper*
@@kuppeycake6457 Because your brain will have the chemicals that make it sad, for example, but it will see the bright colors (if you associate bright colors with "happy" feelings, some people don't, for some people black is still a happy color it depends on your perception of the colors if you have one) and think "I have to be happy but I'm not Oh gosh darn it!"
But like I said above some people don't associate colors with special moods or feelings. And of course, for some people, it helps them feel better and "influence" their brains in the way they want to feel.
So don't worry it is not going to necessarily F up your brain, it's just if you really feel like dressing in a certain color your brain might "feel" it as soothing.
Fashion psychology is a real thing! What you wear can definitely influence or embrace your emotions
Black swan is one of my favorite films ever, this incredible analysis made me appreciate it from a different perspective! Amazing work!
I was always scared to watch it because of the nail clipper scene. Is it very horrible or just implied? For context, I am very squeamish.
@@Chinni_C888 I personally wouldnt call it graphic, but it is quite dark in tone. I'd suggest just skipping it if it makes you uncomfortable; as long as you get the message/idea, then you can understand the rest of the story perfectly :)
I agree- "Black Swan" is one of my favorite movies as well! I also really enjoyed and appreciated this analysis of the movie. I love fashion so I enjoy hearing the aspects of it discussed in a deep, meaningful, and intelligent way
if you liked black swan you will love perfect blue 😊
Me too. I dig the aesthetic + Freudian vibe 😍
For anyone who’s interested in psychoanalysis and Freud, I highly recommend the documentary “The Century of the Self”. It’ll make you question every decision you’ve ever made.
Where can I watch this documentary?
@@KarolineThePagan I’m pretty sure you can just search it on TH-cam and it will pop up!
is that gonna give me existencial anxiety... that can leave really depressed
@@bernardocampos7919 I need to know this too!
@@bernardocampos7919 probably
I watched Black Swan when it was released years ago and I remember enjoying it even though I was confused. I had no idea the film was a representation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory! Your costume and styling analysis of the Nina's superego, ego and id throughout the movie is spot on. This definitely calls for a rewatch! Bonus: I love the Grey Color Psychology notes in the middle of the video. "Because of its range, grey is connected to intellect and compromise. It's very diplomatic in nature, negotiating all the distance between black and white. It's not a color of extremes, but rather of middle ground." I'll never look at my grey hoodie the same way again haha
Crap, now I’ll never look at my never ending sea of grey t-shirts the same either 😝
Yes, I loved this description too!
All coming of age stories follow the same pattern. I personally see them through an Jungian lens, instead of Freudian...
It’s a feminine perspective on the same process that we saw in Fight Club, only that there there were two males:
Edward Norton/ Nina and Brad Pitt/Lily, while Helena Bonham Carter would be Thomas in Black Swan. Same structure.
My favorite grey sweatshirt is calling me…
This movie kills me- it came out while I was doing my English lit degree and I wrote a lot about the didactic moral functions of fairy tales and this was perfect for it. It’s a fascinating exploration of femininity, self identity, existing as a woman against other women and in society- duality and or dichotomy it hits every note you could want from the way the actors and backgrounds are styled- the sound design, psychologically it’s fascinating from the actors portrayals too. And I like the ambiguous ending, I’ll be honest all these years later... I’m not even sure how I read it. I’ve read it hopeful and I’ve read it bleak, I’ve read it as fantasy and reality and there always seems to be about as much weight and truth to one as the next. And aside from how masterful everything else is, I think it’s uncertainty is what makes that movie so great. It’s heavy handed with symbolism and imagery but it doesn’t give you any real answers in the end and leaves you to think on it. I think there’s a reason it’s probably the directors most acclaimed film.
In my opinion Nina at the end accomplishes her goal and transcends her former frozen in childhood state.
As you’ve said, the movie is relying heavily on metaphor and symbolism to show Nina’s transition from childhood to adulthood, her being an arrested development case, obviously.
Therefore, many scenes are not to be taken literally, but in terms of metaphor to show her mental and emotional state. She is not literally growing black feathers- that is a symbol used to represent her inner dark, repressed psyche coming to surface, with an unstoppable force. Her mother clips her nails, symbolizing the overbearing mother who clips and blocks any growth her daughter could have. Nina doesn’t break her legs in a literal sense, it is again, another symbol meant to show how her way of navigating through life ( we move in life through our legs, right?) is broken and won’t work anymore. Nina doesn’t have sex with Lily, she only unites with her (repressed) sexuality , which she projected on Lily, Lily being a sexually free woman ( she represents the flow to Nina’s control, we are told), and in the end we see she doesn’t kill literally Lilly, what she killed was her projection of her own inner black swan on Lily. Only once with withdraw our projections can we start to integrate those aspects into ourselves, which Nina does.
All Nina’s “madness” is a metaphor, in my opinion, to show her real self, her actualized womanhood ( the black swan) , coming to surface, in a violent way, but that’s because Nina projected evil onto it through her desperate clinging to innocence and being a “good sweet girl”( mommy’s girl). Because all the movie relies on symbols and is not to be taken literally , I think the ending is to be seen and interpreted through the same symbolic, not literal, way.
In the end we are told “I felt it, I was perfect”, meaning the transcendence Thomas talked about in the beginning was achieved by her and she successfully integrated her repressed side, which was womanhood ( the black swan) , with all it’s complexities and darkness and sexuality, all part of the adult life, which for such a long time she repressed. Finally, “through death she found liberation” as the white swan’s story goes. Meaning the white swan, Nina’s good girl, innocent side dies, and the new self, a woman, not a child, takes its place.
What died was Nina’s former self, who could no longer live. In order to become adults we must give up childhood, and in that sense, the child we once were must die, with all it’s naivety , innocence and “pinkness”. Natalie Portman mentioned in an interview how the blood at the end is meant to symbolize period, therefore another symbol of coming into womanhood.
The ending is left ambiguous purposefully, because it is the type of mind fuck movie, and those are best left that way. Exactly like in Inception, another inner journey story, told through metaphors and symbols, the only way through which you can express the mysterious nature of our psyches and inner realities.
It is my absolute favorite movie of all times and it’s an absolute masterpiece!
Do a style analysis on the women from Sex and the City! Please everyone like this comment if you'd like to see that too.
Yes! I would love to see the contrast between Charlotte and Samantha
Yesss
The channel ModernGurlz did a very good one already you can watch that
@Joeyr Boomer yourself, Sex and the City is still a very popular show with a lot of relevancy in it's female characters. You can't just throw the word boomer anytime you disagree with someone makes you sound like a child and makes the rest of us look bad
@Joeyr You dumb dick I'm 29
I remember hearing that the blood at the end was also made to look like she got her period... purposefully, so that this transition she went through, now she is finally a woman and no longer the scared little mama's girl. she transformed, but to what cost? did she actually kill herself, will she be saved? ... All SHE cared about at the end was that she did the black swan perfectly. I think i remember initially thinking she died, but now, i think she just fully flipped, into her mental illness + became her fullest self- bad sides and all. The cost of that was just she lost her sanity. maybe i'm wrong. but the movie is so good.
I don’t think the ending is to be taken literally, because all movie is very metaphorical and relies heavily on symbolism.
I think the ending symbolized her old self dying , her innocence dying and her merging with her highest potential, and in order to get to that she had to go through her repressed dark side. A lot of things don’t literally happen in the movie, they are just meant to symbolize her inner process and transition: she doesn’t literally grow feathers, she doesn’t break her legs, she doesn’t have sex with Lily, etc. They are symbols and visual imagery used to express her inner process, feelings, psychic projections, etc. That’s why I personally don’t think she dies at the end, only her outdated previous self is transcended, which was the goal in the first place. As she said “ I felt it, I was perfect”. She accomplished her goal and the transition has been made.
We see the exact same process shown in Fight Club, only there we have two make protagonists- Ed Norton/ Nina, and his antagonist Brad Pitt/ Lily. In the end it is revealed that it was all happening in his head, and his “insanity” is also not meant to be taken literal. It is again, a symbol.
i dunno, i mean it shows herself taking out the piece of glass she stuck into her self earlier and I don't know why people would think its her period when it shows her pulling out the glass from the wound.
The blood was on her belly . Where she stabbed her tho .
Do Daenerys Targaryen! Her outfits start off pale and flowy while she's an innocent little girl then start getting more saturated and incorporating dragon symbolism as she becomes the mad queen.
I don’t think the outfits have anything to do with her becoming ‘the mad queen’ as for starters the show doesn’t do a good job getting to that end point.
But I do think the outfits represent for the last remaining women of power in the show is that they have to start off pretending to be womanly (the clothing is a signal of their station in life-only an object to be trading off its beauty).
As the women Cersei, Daenerys, & Sansa grow in power their clothing grows in harshness of lines, as was mentioned in this video early on. It is a signal to the audience that the woman is taking on what society perceives as manly qualities (anger, authority, confidence).
The more power Dany gains the less she has to use her body to be influential. Until at the very end the only parts of her body we see that indicate she is in fact a woman is her face and hair.
But her hair is braided as an indicator of her NEVER losing a battle in the Dothraki tradition. So even that changes to a masculine indicator of power by the time she comes to that mess of an ending she was given.
They costume director said the more battles she won the more braids they would put in daenerys hair. It becomes more and more elaborate as the seasons go on. I thought that was a cool touch, a shout out to her adopted darthraki culture
BlairWaldorf2013 No, because Daenerys was already exhibiting signs of “madness” way back when she was still wearing white flowy dresses (when she fed one of the former Masters to her dragons without conclusively determining his guilt, all to show off her power). Throughout the entire show, she’s always killed people she deemed evil and/or inconvenienced her. Way back in season 2 she threatened that if Qarth turned her away she would come back “with fire and blood”. She burned the Dothraki’s temple down, for fuck’s sake. She destroyed their culture, and they bowed to her for it like she wasn’t a murderous colonizer. And somehow in the final season everyone is surprised that she did the exact thing she always said she would?
That is so obvious, why do you need a video on that?
The reason why Daenerys Targaryen wears a lot of blue is because the Khalasar that Khal drogo belonged to had the colour blue to identify themselves, and it's different for every Khalasar.
Also I think during the later seasons she sheds off the blue and starts wearing her house colour more and more to transform herself into the dragon she would be
Natalie said once that the blood in the end represents a first period, like she is becomig a woman.
I looove that movie, have a tattoo of it and everything
omg you do? I was thinking about getting one myself as it truly is one of my favorite movies. What symbol did you choose? xx
@@gqah8744 I have a feather on my ribs and one side is white, delicate and perfect, the other is black, intense and messy, with the quote "perfection is not just about control, it's also about letting go"
It's not white white, it's just not fully painted so you can see the perfect lines in black and my skin tone. The other side is full on black.
@@brunaoliveira4941 that's so beautiful!! wanna get a black swan themed tattoo myself xx
When and where did Natalie say this? Please site your sources. How could a 28 year old girl be getting her period for this first time?
I think this film is one of the greatest films to portray a mental spiral. Very accurate. Love this video
i dont know if anyone noticed this but when she's wearing or not wearing earings it represents her and childishness & maturity. when she's wearing earrings the childlike/white swan personality of nina is what's in play but when she's is portrayed with no earrings the blackswan/mature side is most dominant
This is such an interesting and well-made video, as always. I love how you're always able to link psychology and fashion, I don't think there's another channel like yours at the moment. I can't wait for Aria and Effy's style analysis, but keep time for yourself as well ❤️
After taking AP psychology, this video analysis makes so much sense now
This is one of the best analyzes I've seen about this movie and the fact that my college major is psychology and that I'm a ballerina, has captured all my interest.
You do an excellent job!🌸✨
Fantastic video! I’m a Psych major myself and you nailed Freud’s ideas spot on! I love seeing so much psychoanalysis go into a film-especially the costume choices.
Apart from the excellent analysis, whoever is narrating this, her voice is so sultry and smooth. I'll watch more videos from this channel.
they sound almost exactly like ani tilki (kingani)
Could you do a style analysis of neon demon? I would also like to see something about the costumes in disney films like maleficent.
You're legit one of my favourite youtube channels! You always do such great topics that I can't see anyone else doing and you're editing and video quality is great. I wish more people talked about Black Swan it's so clever.
I love this movie, it`s so interesting and full of symbolism that is easy to understand, yet it also has many layers and can be understood/interpreted in different ways. Great analysis!
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Black Swan is Fight Club for girl culture
Or the female version of "The Wrestler".
Also shares similarities to Perfect Blue. A pop idol in Japan decides to pursue acting and her first role is in a gritty crime drama. The film focuses on the pure, virginal image that idols in Japan are supposed to follow similar to how Nina plays the role of the innocent little girl to please her overbearing mother.
Can you continue with PLL characters ? And do Aria’s style evolution.
I'm going to continue covering them! I'm just uploading content in between because I like to keep my channel as well rounded as possible 🖤
@@CleverAndChic I really like your insights on style and psychology, I know this might be difficult but if possible can you please analyze Hye jung's style from the Korean drama "doctors" the drama is kina typical but I really liked the style and it would be very interesting to see your perspective and views on how it corelates with her character arch.
They were the best in the first few season but afterwards,the fashion got bland it kind of sad
Just a recommendation: Can you do a video about the femme fatale trope? I think it would be very interesting to see!
The Take has a video about that trope from a symbolic point of view
watch mina le’s video on femme fatale!
I watch these videos and I can't believe this is free content.
Was waiting for this after all the previews on twitter! Amazing as always ❤️
Thank you so much, hope you enjoy! 🖤
Hi darling ! Can you make a video about balancing femininity and masculinity when it comes to style? 💟
Yessss
Omg yes along with dark/light colours, edgy vs. girly, tough textures vs. soft
I usually like mixing these together because im indecisiveEeee
Darren Aronofsky is my favorite movie director. He is a genius of beautiful visualization.
Can you make a video about how to cultivate an ethereal wardrobe? Your videos have such high quality. The effort you put into these is incredible!
Love your video it was simply spectacular! Have you ever considered doing a video on Game of Thrones fashion styles with characters like Mageary Tyrell and Sansa. I would love those videos.
Can u do Monica or Rachel’s style from friends preferably Monica’s
Beautiful! Yout color theory mixed with psychoanalysis amplifies the richness of this film's artistry, thank you so much💭🖤
Could we please have an episode on famous luxury shoe brands? Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin, Stuart Weitzman etc...
It would be amazing if you did the Taylor Swift eras (how she changes her style for every album)!
yes please!
OHMYGOD I LITERALLY WAS JUST SEARCHING FOR VIDEOS LIKE THESE YESTERDAY BC I LOVE THIS SM
I WAS LITERALLY REWATCHING UR OTHER VIDEOS DSFSHDF
Nicely done. Black swan is such a great movie with so much depth, a lot of which I think is relatable. One of my faves.
Feels like im reading a magazine. Cool content
Ahhh, I've waited so long for this! Thank you for another wonderful video, Michelle! You've taught me a lot about fashion.
Omg I love ,,Black Swan” thankyou ❤️
This makes me want to watch the movie now. Awesome analysis
I didn’t know why this was recommended to me 3 days later because I was waiting for it. Well analysed and edited as always! I love your take on this.💕
I'm sorry! but that opening costume is a classical tutu, not a romantic tutu. romantic tutus are more like what you'd see in Giselle, the sort of calf length, tulle tutus. classical tutus are also known as pancake tutus (which makes sense when you see them). not to be that girl but romantic and classical tutus are two wholeee seperate things and are used for two completely different eras, styles, and aesthetics within ballet performance. other than that, fantastic and very interesting analysis!!
edit: i realised when i said chiffon i meant tulle, the word completely got mixed up when i wrote this hahaha
Thank you so much for the correction/explanation! I always found costuming for ballet so beautiful. I wish I could go back and edit to do it justice haha. I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed 🖤
@@CleverAndChic of course! there's a lot of misinformation around ballet/dance in general so i like to be able to correct people from the point of view of a dancer. one of my favourite things about being a dancer (especially for ballet) is the pretty costumes we get to wear for shows and concerts! you should have a look at some of the costumes from The Australian Ballet 'The Sleeping Beauty', it's one of my favourites in terms of the detailing on the costumes. it was a genuinely fascinating video to watch, not even the sort of thing most people would notice but costuming is so so significant and your analysis was super interesting! genuinely really enjoyed watching ❤️
This was awesome 🤩👍 I had always thought that Nina died in the end, it's a really odd movie.
I love this so much ! Just wrote a paper on Nina’s mental state. This would have been really helpful while writing it !
i love this movie so much!! tbh I didn't pay to much to the wardrobe aside from the stage outfits but your analysis was great. i loved seeing the designers' sketches as well
For me this was a great analysis, really. You explained well things like superego, id and ego. It is helpful to understand BTS concept, the song black swan is inspired by this movie, and they also refer to ego, etc.
Amazing analysis ❤️
And another amazing video! Good job girl💕
I love these videos! Thank you for putting so much thought and effort into them!
Wow what a great video analyzing how Nina’s clothing compliments her change of mind!
this video is absolutely amazing!!!!! 🖤
I swear as a teenager watching this for the first time I wanted her wardrobe 😂☺️🌸
TH-cam : fashion x mental state?
me: alright...
I enjoyed this analysis a lot more, it’s great seeing your channel grow because it has so much potential.
ive never seen the movie but i watched it so i can watch your video. shows how much i adore your content girl ♥
I always kinda wanted to watch this film but I was afraid because I am very sensitive when it comes to scary movies. I’m 19 now, do you guys think I can take it? Or is it like a horror movie? Great video btw.
Watch it. It's kind of a hard psychological and dark movie but it's not "horror" per se, so you should be fine. (A tiny bit of uncomfortable body transformation though.)
Thank you! It's a psychological thriller/drama, but I kept out the harsher hallucinations since I didn't want to show that in case it was too disturbing. So it's not a horror film, but has horror elements
I'm very sensitive too but I think you can handle it
It's not horror at all, it's a psychological thriller. Grab a snack and get tucked in for a ride. It's a beautiful film I love it.
It's more disturbing than traditionally scary like it messes with your emotions so if you're worried about that maybe don't watch it but otherwise if you're worried about it being like a scary movie don't be it's really great
this is an amazing analysis. I knew it would be but it is absolutely amazing
You are killing it with these videos 🤩
Plz a video about Kate Middleton style ❤️❤️❤️
such great content and attention to the details. Thank you :)
You are really great at breaking this film down. I love it!
your videos are awesome!! i love the characters analysis, i would love to see one on rachel or monica from friends or on emily from emily in paris!
Can we do The heathers next?
Black Swan Rating Overall: 93/100 (Excellent)
Reminds me of Perfect Blue... wait, this is just like perfect blue! :O
One of the teachers of my school made some of his then-students watch this back in 2012... My father said that they were scared and the same students told me exactly the same thing
Hi just wanted to say I love your videos !!
Such a good video! Thank you for this♥
the editor better be getting a raise
edit: is it only me or does the narrator sound like the psycho2go narrator
Well, she deserved her Oscar.
I love your videos so much omg. I'd love to see your take on what trends to expect for winter and 2021 in general
Why is everyone complaining about her voice? It’s nice
I loved this video, good job 💞
Btw if you loved Black swan you'll probably enjoy Perfect Blue because Black swan is heavily influenced by this animated movie!
I love Rodarte 😍
Woaaaah this video was very interesting and educational at the same time!! I subscribed
Loved this!
Do a "Girlfriends" clothing analysis- Netflix just picked up the series and I love Joan Clayton's style on that show! Just discovered you and am enjoying these videos- new subscriber here!
Hi! I really enjoy these videos, would you do a similar for the anime called Nana? Style plays a huge role there as well😊
I second this
On that note, please do Perfect Blue (the anime that inspired Black Swan) too!
Thanks for the support, I hope this happens♥️
Aaaamazing video, I am in love with your channel!
Can you please do a break down on Jessica Pierce from the Suits. She's a very beautiful and powerful character but very understated.
first of all, YES YES YES YES YES YES YESYESYESSSSS
thank you so much for your videos, such an inspiration for my channel
Reminds me of whiplash...the dark side of Obsession for extreme greatness and perfection.
Thank you for,freshening up,a diamont film
amazing video as always
Cest magnifique!
Lovvvvve this movie it’s soooo deep
You should do Lorelai Gilmore!
Thank you so much.
I loved the content of the video but the music is just annoying.
This video has a calm voice talking about art and the rave going on in the background really distracts from what you're saying...
I like the fact they used so much angora which is rabbit 🐇 to create a swan 🦢 suit. I hope it was harvested humanely by Rodarte 🙏🏽.
Your videos are really good. Can you do lana del rey’s style analysis next please?
nghe mà ưng hết cả tai , đức phúc cover mãi đỉnh
Good!
Well done 👏
You should do a video on Ralph Lauren!
wonderfully done! Is an interpretation for Emily in Paris possible?
It would be great to see you do you will breakdowns of movies TV series in the future very interesting
I wouldn’t say pink leotards are the most standard color in ballet. Tights and shoes definitely but black leos are far more common.
My favorite movie 😩 I always wanted to be a ballerina but my parents couldn't send me to school. Lol