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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Black Swan and the Horror of Perfectionism

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What's the cost of being perfect? Of losing yourself in the name of performance? Why do we applaud women's pain? The film Black Swan sets the stage for a conversation around the line between art and life, toxic mother-daughter relationships, mental health, symbolism, doppelgangers, ageism, orgasms, and the dangers of perfectionism.

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1:26.3

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1:36.5

Hey, this is Annie.

1:37.6

And Samantha.

1:38.4

I'm not going to stuff out ever until I do a production of iHeartRadio.

1:40.8

So it continued really unplanned streak of horror movies that involve dancing.

1:57.8

Yeah.

1:58.7

As promised, today we were talking about Black Swan from 2010.

2:04.1

And yeah, we are doing a bit more movies than we normally do this month.

2:08.8

It's just because we're such horror movie buffs.

2:12.5

There's so many to talk about.

2:14.4

And I do think that a lot of times, as I said, the themes are really interesting.

2:20.2

And we're talking about what it is we're afraid of.

2:22.8

And particularly when it comes to women, I saw this movie in theaters in 2010 when it came out.

2:28.6

And this was back when the theater near I was in college.

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