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Nina wakes up the next morning with a hangover-like headache to find Lily gone and realizes she is late for rehearsal. As her mother sits quietly in the living room, Nina yells at her and asks why she didn't wake her up. Erica says this role is destroying her and as Nina rushes out the door, she tells Erica that she is moving out. Eve gives you the glitz and glam on top of the dirty and the realness of L.A., which is rare. If you haven't read Eve Babitz yet, I don't know what to tell you except what are you waiting for. Just do it." -- MyDomaine, One of the Best Books of the Year

Portman's "hyper" ballet training". Press Association. September 1, 2010. Archived from the original on September 1, 2010. The men on the other side of the plain, having lit their fire, were smoking themselves in it. The women saw the smoke curling up towards their plain and ran toward it, armed with spears, crying "Wi-bulloo! Wi-bulloo!" This myth of ravens as messengers is still prevelant today, most notably in Game of Thrones, where ravens are used as messenger birds, as well as guiding Bran Stark on his quest. Soon they cried "Biboh! Biboh!" changing as they did so into large, pure white birds, which the Daens call baiamul, the swans.

Technological singularity– Hypothetical point in time when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible Brody, Richard (March 6, 2021). "The Best Movie Performances of the Century So Far". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on March 6, 2021 . Retrieved March 8, 2021. Her articles and short stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire magazines. She is the author of several books including Eve's Hollywood; Slow Days, Fast Company; Sex and Rage; Two By Two; and L.A. Woman. Transitioning to her particular blend of fiction and memoir beginning with Eve's Hollywood, Babitz’s writing of this period is indelibly marked by the cultural scene of Los Angeles during that time, with numerous references and interactions to the artists, musicians, writers, actors, and sundry other iconic figures that made up the scene in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Kroll, Justin (December 3, 2009). "Sebastian Stan". Variety . Retrieved December 11, 2009. [ dead link] This shows that Erica has never been able to work through her own inadequacies and finds comfort in the fact that Nina is good because of her. Her daughter is the materialisation of the perfection that Erica had hoped to be in her own career, which is why she doesn’t want anything to distract her from this vision. She doesn’t want Nina to go astray and keeps her on a tight leash. While this does work, to some extent, it also sows the seed of absolute perfection in Nina. McCabe, Joseph (December 10, 2009). "Behold the Latest Swan". FEARnet. Horror Entertainment, LLC . Retrieved December 11, 2009. There is another thing that could be derived from Erica’s behaviour, and honestly, even I believe that it might be a bit far-fetched, but there are some actions, some lines that I just can’t let go of. Often, it is seen that a person suffering from mental illness has been through a trauma before- physical, emotional or sexual. We know that Erica has been suppressing Nina emotionally, but has she also been doing so sexually? The dance moves involved her male companion to hold her and touch her on what should have been the wounded area. All this time, he doesn’t feel the glass shard in her belly? Also, if it had been a fatal injury, how could she dance with such ferocity on stage? Perhaps, she had imagined the stabbing part as well. This means that she is not hurt and will be fine, though she might need to get help for her hallucinations.Zeitchik, Steven (November 9, 2009). "Searchlight could sing Swan 's song". The Hollywood Reporter. At first, we rule out this behaviour as the compulsive nature of Erica to be in control of her daughter’s life and to treat her like a child. But moving forward, a context begins to appear. If this rash symbolises Nina’s diseased state of mind and if it has happened before, then it means that Erica is aware of Nina’s hallucinations. Her daughter’s drive for perfection has broken her before; never like this time, but there are wounds and dents on her psyche. Levine, Debra (November 29, 2010). "Natalie Portman's evil twin, body-double Kimberly Prosa". Huffington Post . Retrieved January 29, 2011.

Gritten, David (October 25, 2010). "The London Film Festival is flourishing". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022. In 1963, her first brush with notoriety came through Julian Wasser's iconic photograph of a nude, twenty-year-old Babitz playing chess with the artist Marcel Duchamp, on the occasion of his landmark retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum. The show was curated by Walter Hopps, with whom Babitz was having an affair at the time. The photograph is described by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art as being “among the key documentary images of American modern art”. On the women came, until they saw smoke, then cried again, "Wi-bulloo! Wi-bulloo!" They feared a fire as much as they feared the dark, both unknown in their country. Failing to get their weapons, they turned again to where the strange white birds had been. But they had gone. Newhouse, J. (14 June 1982), "A reporter at large: a sporty game: i-betting the company", The New Yorker, pp.48–105

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While perfection can mean different things to different people, Nina's arc — and the film as a whole — shows that the pursuit of perfection doesn't come without consequences. After all, achieving excellence can be gratifying, but chasing it can be deadly. Nina’s woeful tale is an exaggerated but common fate for ballerinas. Which means Nina is representative of the whole. Her story is the story of many. The final message, when stripped to its core point, is a bleak one—ballerinas literally destroy themselves in an attempt to be perfect. When Wurrunna returned to his tribe after one of his walkabouts he brought with him some weapons never before seen by men. These, he said, were made in a country where there were only women, and they had given them to him in exchange for his possum-skin rug, saying, "Go, bring us more rugs, and we will give you more weapons." from stage left and looked out to see someone who was supposed to be the director behind the glare of the stage lights under the balcony. I took my position in the crook of the piano. Vas vollen zi zingen hauter? Ich zing der regiment’s tochter aria! With all eight high Cs? No, with all nine high Cs – I responded. Lyman, Eric J. (August 25, 2010). "Venice Fest looks to re-energize". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 1, 2010 . Retrieved February 21, 2020.T]his novel is studded with sharp observations... Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures."-- New York Times Book Review Gray, Brandon (December 13, 2010). "Weekend Report: Narnia Fails to Tread Water, Tourist Trips". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved December 19, 2010. The non-computability of the probability of consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities). Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures.”— The New York Times Book Review