Black SwanStarring: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis
Wow. One weird little film.
Natalie Portman is the ballerina who wants perfection. Her mom – Barbara Hersey – is living her life through Portman’s. Very unconventional mother/daughter relationship.
What is real – and what is not real – both in the movie and to viewer is essential to the film. At end, what really happened?
Portman gives an Oscar-worthy performance as the woman-child who slowly dissolves under the pressure of the “White/Black Swan.”
For reasons that need not be explained, I was making some updates to this WordPress install (that powers this blog) this week.
And I broke, well, something…
It took some work to figure out what I had done (and to script periodic backups), but the end story is this: While WordPress is, in some ways, an arcane CMS, it’s an awesome CMS.
This is the first time in a year or so that I really got my hands dirty with WordPress code, and – knowing more about CSS/PHP than I did a year ago – I’m impressed.
I have an older version (v2.x) of WordPress, and I’m sure some of the arcane issues have been resolved, but – overall, once you wrap your head around it, it’s infinitely flexible and extensible. I’m a PHP programmer, so I disagree with some of the design decisions (example: non-standard installs assign the main stylesheet to a weird area), but that’s probably just my ignorance. Good stuff here.
I’m no fanboy or WordPress flack. Just a user of a great, free product that I use for blogging.
Did I mention that it’s free?????…