I liked the score more than the acting.
Natalie Portman, was good, however her pained+anguished expression irritated me halfway through. She has a feeble meekness to her character who is unable to stand up for herself, making me wish someone would just slap her already. So I guess she played her part well. I prefered her as the Black Swan. Sensual, powerful and mysterious. White Swan was naive and boring.
The score is just something else. Play Swan Lake loud (pls get the original score, not some radio mixed nonsense crap), especially the fourth movement ( i think), up the reverb (if you have it) and close your eyes. It is just mesmerizing. But that's just my biased opinion. I love Tchaikovsky. I don't remember when I started loving him. I just did.
I recall "borrowing" a "Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits" cassette from my uncle. It was a compilation of all his famous music. I rationalized that I needed it more than uncle did. It was lying abandoned in the glove compartment, coverless. So I took it home and listened to it in secret, from side A to side B. Again and again.
His music is dramatic, so very over the top yet it's harmony is painfully beautiful. Each bar runs into the other until you hit 'fine' (Latin for "The End"). At some point, your heart just catches on and soars poignant with the swell and lows of it's notes. It wrests emotions you never thought you possessed. And at the echo of the last note, do not be surprised to see damp eyes and unsightly swanbumps on your limbs - whatever waggles your tail. I never known any other composer who can make me wipe away tears and not think I was plain nuts.
I simply put that down to the magic of music and the genius that was P.I. Tchaikovksy.
ps: he was gay...him and his burly moustache.
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