To understand this film, you must first pay attention to Nina herself.

It can be seen from the relationship between her and her mother: her mother was originally a ballet dancer, but had to suspend her career due to pregnancy or other reasons. From then on, the mother passed on her dream to Gave it to her daughter - sent her to learn ballet since she was a child, and "care" for her carefully: dolls in Nina's room, hypnotic music box, waking her up every morning, not allowing her to play outside too late, even friends (lily) ) looked for her at the door and refused to let her in, and continued to interfere when the two were talking... In short, this was a very powerful single mother who squeezed her child's private space. One detail worth noting is that the mother spends all day painting self-portraits in her room, which adds to Nina’s psychological burden (imagine the parents we often see resigning or taking a long vacation, renting a house next to the school to accompany their children who are taking college entrance exams) ), this psychological burden requires Nina to succeed. She is not just dancing for herself, but inheriting her mother's will, so in her fantasy later, the painting on the wall will say "good boy". I got it."

I think most Chinese children know what kind of person Nina becomes under such a mother's education: naive, unassertive, weak, afraid of failure, afraid of trying, and focusing on the evaluation of others. and honor, thirsting for perfection.