Black Swan (2010)

Film: Black Swan
Drink: Spinning Dancer
Overall: 5 out of 6 drinks.
Drinking Game:

• Whenever you cringe. 
• Mila Kunis tries to seduce someone (real or imaginary) 
• Natalie Portman acts like an eight year old 
• The dance director is being creepy. 
• Take 2 drinks if something is a hallucination. 
• CHALLENGE: Drink every time someone says 'Swan Queen' 

 "I had the craziest dream last night. I was dancing the White Swan." 

Tonight we'll be drinking to a movie that, surprisingly enough (at least for the stuff I review) has a primarily cast. Black Swan is basically a pseudo-take on the classic Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet. It stars both Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis who do incredible jobs at convincing us that they truly are ballet artists that are searching for perfection. The conflict of the film falls into place as the main character Nina Sayers is cast as the swan queen but finds difficulty embraces the dark mysterious black swan portion of the role. As she falls deeper into delusion she becomes convinced that the new girl Lily (played by the gorgeous)  Mila Kunis is trying to replace her. 

The drink that accompanies this film is probably one you aren't too familiar with, and I promise you that I didn't pick it based on the name! It doesn't require that many ingredients but the mixing part is sort of tricky, so I'll go into it in more detail. 

It'll end up kinda like this.

Ingredients:

•  Sprite (can or a bottle)
• Grapefruit juice 
• 3 oz favorite flavored vodka. (cheap is better here) 
• Grenadine 

Pretty simple huh? Now comes the fun part. Dump the vodka in the higball glass and fill it with the grapefruit juice, add in a tiny bit of sprite, the more the sweeter. Then spin the glass on the table and trickle grenadine into it. The effect should look like a spininning circle, hence the name. It is really a cool effect when you pull it off correctly. I would start mixing it right when the first ballet scene comes into play. 

Now I said I'd tell you the real reason behind picking this, and that it wasn't just because of the swirling grenadine being somewhat similar to a dancer. Ok I lied that's pretty much the main reason, but it also has a sweet flavor with a tinge of a bite, very much like the idea of the Swan Queen's double personas. The sprite certainly gives it a clear taste that contrasts very nicely with the grapefruit. Depending on which flavor of vodka you used it could be a little different, but I'm sure it'll be enjoyable none the less. 

Thing's to toast to:

• Sex scene with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis 
• You really shouldn't need any other reasons besides the one above to see the film. 
• It won an Oscar. 
• Pretty violent portrayal for a movie about ballet 
• The acting is incredible 
• Mila Kunis provides some comic relief at times
• You begin to question what is and isn't real

Cringe and drink: 

• Natalie Portman's relationship to her mother is really strange
• Tearing the skin off of the nails (blah!) 
• Creepy dance instructor 
• Sometimes I didn't know what was going on
• The end was rather ambiguous (Perhaps on purpose?) 

Overall I think that this film is a perfect movie that you can convince your girlfriend to watch because it's about ballet but it also contains an awesome lesbian sex scene between two incredibly hot women. You can probably just have her go grab food right before that comes on to avoid a fight. Either way, I'd highly recommend it.