Rain Man

 This Oscar-winning Melodrama was released on December 12, 1988. The movie was directed by Barry Levinson who received an Oscar for ‘Best Director’ and the screenplay was written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. The screenplay too received the ‘Best Original Screenplay’ Oscars award.

The cast includes the following actors:

Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbit who received an Oscar for ‘Best Actor

Valeria Golino as Susanna

Tom Cruise as Charlie Babbit

Gerald R. Molen as Dr. Bruner

Bonnie Hunt as Sally Dibbs

Lucinda Jenney as Iris

 

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie introduces Charlie Babbit who is a car dealer in Los Angeles. Charlie buys four Lamborghini cars for his customers by taking down payments from them and also by taking some loans. But his cars are questioned by EPA, Environmental Protection Agency which certifies cars after looking at the pollution measurement and now the cars stopped at the port. Charlie has a small office where he himself, his girlfriend Susanna, and his friend work. The customers now start asking for the down payment back because the cars are not delivered yet. He assures them that the cars will be soon certified by the EPA and hence will be delivered.

 

Now Charlie goes on a date, basically a drive with his girlfriend Susanna where he receives a call. It is his friend Lanny who tells him that his father is no more and tomorrow is his funeral. So Charlie goes there. Now they go to their dad’s funeral. After going there he gets to know that his father has just left a vintage car and a bouquet for him although he had a lot of wealth. He also gets to know that he has left his three million dollar property to an unnamed trustee. This leaves Charlie in shock because according to him he was the only child. Charlie after a thorough search knows that the unnamed trustee is in a mental institute. Charlie goes there and for the very first time gets to know that his elder brother Raymond lives there. He never had an idea that he had an elder brother too. His brother Raymond is autistic, which means he has some developmental disability due to differences in his brain. There he meets Dr. Bruner who informs him that Raymond himself is the unnamed trustee. He also adds that Raymond doesn’t have any money concept and he doesn’t even understand that his father is no more in this world.

 

 Charlie starts spending a lot of time with his brother. He even takes him out of the mental institute telling the concerned that he was going to take him just for a stroll. He takes him to a hotel to stay. But since his brother is autistic, his routine seems to be disturbed because Charlie has brought him there. Raymond starts becoming difficult asking for those things. This makes Charlie so irritated that he starts misbehaving with his elder brother. This makes Susanna sad and tells him that he only uses others for his benefit and nothing more and leaves the place. The next day Charlie and his brother go to the restaurant for breakfast where he calls the doctor and says that his brother Raymond will now stay with him and if they want to take him back, he should get 1.5 million dollars from that three million. Doctor Bruner rejects such a deal but Charlie adds that they can’t even case a file of kidnapping since he is his brother. He further tells that he will bring him back if his deal is fulfilled and otherwise they will meet in court. While returning from the restaurant, Raymond crashes with a waitress and the toothpicks from her hand fall off. The next moment Raymond tells the total count of the toothpicks. At first Charlie and the waitress do not believe him but after the waiter counts them it turns out to be true. This leaves Charlie impressed.

 

Now they go to the airport so that they can head towards Los Angeles. There he gets a call from Lanny who tells him that it has become difficult for him to keep the customers waiting and they either want the payment back or the car. Charlie asks for some more time. Raymond doesn’t agree to go by that airline because he knows that there had been many crashes on that airline before and it is not safe to go by that airline. And hence Charlie takes the name of other airlines but Raymond keeps on giving the crash count of those airlines. Raymond has a keen sense of remembering everything he reads and since he had read about the airlines in the past, hence he knows everything now. Charlie gets frustrated and starts taking him forcefully but Raymond starts crying loudly and as a result, he has to take him by the car. But the problem doesn’t end here.

 

 There was a deadly accident on the highway and as a result, was a huge traffic jam. Raymond feels very uncomfortable and decides to go on foot. But Charlie somehow manages to stop him from doing that. It starts raining the next day and Raymond refuses to travel since it is raining and hence they have to stay a whole day in the hotel. The next day, Charlie restarts the journey, and on the way he stops at a phone booth for a call but he realizes that his brother is not in the car. He gets worried and finally finds him after a search. Charlie takes Raymond to a psychiatrist. After some examinations and interrogations, they get to know that Raymond has a special ability. He can do very big mathematical calculations within some seconds. The psychiatrist even adds that Raymond should join NASA because his capabilities seem to fit there. Charlie now stays in a hotel with his brother where he asks him how he can do such calculations so fast. But Raymond replies that even he doesn’t know how he does so.

 

Charlie gets a very old photo of him, Raymond, and his father from Raymond. Now after looking at the photo, Charlie figures out that Raymond is the same guy whom Charlie used to call ‘Rain Man’ instead of Raymond in his childhood. Now in the next scene, it is seen that Raymond gets afraid of the hot water tap and now Charlie remembers the incident in his childhood where Raymond saved him from hot water but his father considered Raymond as the one who did that to him and sent him to the asylum. Charlie has now started understanding his brother. He even brings a special tv for Raymond since he kept on telling that his schedule was disturbed. Charlie again gets a call that his cars are not certified by EPA. This leaves him in shock. Charlie now has a debt of eighty thousand dollars.

 

Charlie in order to know more about his brother’s counting skills spreads cards on the bonnet of his car and takes some of the cards to his hands. He asks him which card is on the bonnet and which is in his hands. Raymond correctly tells all of them. And hence an idea strikes his mind. He teaches him how to play cards and takes Raymond to the casino and he plays it so well that they earn a sum of eighty-six thousand dollars. Everyone around them gets amazed at their play. Charlie is very happy with Raymond that he has helped him get his debt off in a single day. They go to a beautiful hotel that day and Charlie teaches Raymond how to dance there.

 

It is seen that love for his brother is growing more and more in Charlie’s heart.  Susanna also comes back to Charlie’s life. The next day, three of them go to the same casino but the owner rejects them from playing and even threatens them to not be seen nearby. Now they get back to Los Angeles. Dr Bruner comes to meet Charlie and offers him a check of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and asks Raymond back because it is the best place for him and he had even promised their father that he will take care of Raymond. Charlie now replies that he doesn’t want anything from him and neither from the property but wants custody of his brother so that he can keep him for his lifetime. They bring a psychologist from the court to decide whether to give custody to Charlie or to the institution. He asks Raymond for number of times but he doesn’t give clear answers at all. The interrogations seem difficult for Raymond and hence Charlie asks the psychologist to take the decision on the basis of whatever he has asked till now.

 

Charlie has now started feeling that he probably won’t get Raymond’s custody. Charlie gets emotional and tells Raymond that he feels lucky to have a brother like him. The next day he gets to know that he has lost custody. The next day he goes to drop Raymond off the train with Dr. Bruner. Charlie assures Raymond that he will come to meet him every two weeks.

12 Angry Men

This crime drama movie was released in April 1957. This Oscars-nominated movie was directed by Sidney Lumet and the screenplay was written by Reginald Rose.

The cast includes the following actors:

Henry Fonda as jury member eight

Lee J. Cobb as jury member three

Joseph Sweeney as jury member nine

Martin Balsam as a jury member one

Ed Begley jury member ten

John Savoca as the accused young boy

Jack Klugman as jury member five

Jack Warden as jury member seven

John Fiedler as jury member two

E.G. Marshall as jury member four

Edward Binns as jury member six

Robert Webber as jury member twelve

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie displays a country courthouse in New York where the judge speaks to the jury members saying that after knowing all the case details, it’s time for the court to take the decision. And the court needs the opinion of the jury for that and they are given some time. This case is actually a murder case where a 12 years old boy is accused of killing his father by stabbing him with a knife. Now the jury has to decide whether the boy is guilty or not. Now all the jury members come to a room where they sit together and discuss the case and their decision.

 

The first two witnesses nearly convince the jury that it was the boy who killed the man and he should be proven guilty. One of them says that he saw from his window that the boy was attacking his father with a knife. Another man says that he saw the boy shouting at his father telling him that he will kill him and he even saw the man falling on the ground and the boy running from the scene. According to the old records of the boy, he seems to be a bit violent. A few days ago, he had bought a knife similar to the one which was stabbed on his father’s body. The knife is presented to the jury. But the fingerprints were removed from that knife.

 

At first, all the jury members take the case very lightly, especially jury number seven who is in a hurry to go and watch a basketball match. Early voting begins when all the jury members accept that the boy is guilty except jury number eight. He thinks that we can’t reach the decision without having further discussions in the case. He asks the second witness and brings another knife also just as same as that knife which means that the knife is common. Now the secret voting happens once again and now one more voter that is jury member nine says that he also thinks that the guy is not guilty because he too thinks that more discussion needs to be done before deciding.

 

The discussion begins. Jury number eight says that due to the noise of the train passing through the house where the murder happened nothing is audible and he tells that witness number two must have heard something else. After this, jury member five too changes his vote supporting the boy as not guilty. Similarly, jury member eleven says that if the boy has murdered his father, then he will not come to take the knife back from which the fingerprints are already removed. Jury member eight adds that many times people verbally tell that they will kill someone else but this literally doesn’t mean that they are really going to kill them and these are the words that come out of anger and nothing else. Jury members five, nine, and eight now start questioning the witness now which furies jury member eight and they get into a fight. And as a result, he tells jury member eight that he will kill him. And hence the point of jury member eight is proved that people tell such words out of fury. Although jury member three told that he really didn’t have an intention of actually doing it.

 

After listening to this jury members two and six changed their vote. And hence now half of them think that the boy is guilty and the other half jury members think that they are not. Jury member four has a doubt about what the boy told during the hearing and he thinks that the boy didn’t tell what really happened that night. And hence to prove him wrong jury member eight takes a memory test of him asking him what he did a week ago. It becomes difficult for him to remember things. And hence he tells that as it became difficult for jury member four to remember things from the past, the boy too probably has forgotten some details.

 

Jury member two adds that since the boy is smaller than his dad in height hence it must not be possible for him to stab his dad with the wound spreading from top to bottom. Jury member three experimentally shows how this is possible by showing stabbing gestures toward jury member eight. But jury member five shows that a stabber who knows how to use a knife will always stab from bottom to top.

 

 Jury member seven who had to go to watch a match finds that his match was canceled and hence he changes his vote too and his actions make jury member eleven angry. Now the voting starts one more time when jury members one and twelve change their vote too. Now nine of them are for ‘not guilty’ and three are for ‘guilty’.

 

During all these jury member ten becomes angry at all the other jury members but jury member four calms him down. Jury member four tells that the first lady witness saw the boy stabbing his father from the other side of the road. Now jury member twelve comes again for ‘guilty ’ after hearing him. Now jury member four starts pressing at the mark made on his nose due to his spectacles. Looking at that jury member Nine suddenly remembers that the lady about whom they are talking also had a similar mark but she had not worn the specs in the court. Jury member eight adds that the lady was sleeping during the incident and hence was not wearing the specs. And it is not convincing that she put the specs at that very moment to look at the incident and hence she must have seen something else.

 

After this all the jury members except jury member three support for ’not guilty’. Jury member three becomes angry and starts shouting at each of them. He also remembers his relationship with his son and starts crying and tells " Not guilty". Now all of them are supporting ‘not guilty’. All of them come out of the room to give a decision. Jury member eight helps jury member three to calm down and put on his coat. And hence finally, the boy, who was nearly considered guilty before is now proved not guilty. Outside the court, jury members eight and nine are seen shaking hands and introducing themselves for the first time, and walking their own way.

The Pursuit of Happyness

This movie, released on December 15 2006 is based on the life of American businessman and motivational speaker Chris Gardner. The movie was directed by Gabriele Muccino. The cast includes of following actors:

Will Smith as Chris Gardner

Jaden Smith as Christopher Gardner, Jr.

Thandiwe Newton as Linda Gardner

Brian Howe as Jay Twistle

Dan Castellaneta as Alan Frakesh

James Karen as Martin Frohm

Kurt Fuller as Walter Ribbon

 

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie takes viewers to San Francisco in 1981 AD where a man named Chris Gardner is shown spending all his savings to buy portable bone density machines. But these machines do not work well in the market and it becomes very difficult for him to sell those machines. Gradually, his financial condition keeps on degrading. Chris lives in a rented house with his wife Linda and son Christopher. They have to bear so much of the expenditure such as Christopher’s school fees and the house rent. Now the economic burden has come to his wife’s head and as a result, they start having fights with each other. They start struggling financially so much. In order to run the house smoothly, Chris has to sell at least four scanners but he can hardly sell one scanner.

 

One day when Chris is talking to his client on the phone, a dashing car stops nearby him. Chris keeps on looking at the car and can’t help himself from asking the owner. He asks him what he does and how he does it. The man points towards a building and replies that he is a share broker. When Chris looks at anyone coming out of that building, he realizes that everyone is coming out happily. He decides to start working as a share broker. He tells his wife that he is no more going to do business with the scanners. His wife humiliates him by telling him that no one was going to buy them anyway. He adds that he will work as a share broker. His wife insults him saying why he won’t be an astronaut. She tells this because she has no faith in him. Chris feels bad about everything she told. Finally, his wife decides that she will no longer live with him. She takes her son and leaves the place. Chris becomes angry and tells her that she can leave if she wants but she has to give his son back to her. Chris loves his son very much but he also knows that he can’t keep his son legally because he has to stay with his mother. But fortunately, Linda gets a job somewhere in Europe and hence she has to leave the place and as a result, Chris gets to keep his son.

 

One day the house owner comes to him and informs him that he has not paid the rent for months and since he has to paint the house, he wants his house empty. Chris asks for a few more days so that he can earn some money. The owner accepts Chris’s request asking him to paint the whole house if he wants to stay there for one more week. Chris has applied for the job in the share market and tomorrow is his interview. While he was painting his house, he gets caught by the police because he has not paid the parking rent for a long time. They take him to the police station. He asks him to let him go but they don’t do so because they too have some rules. Chris gets out of jail the next day and goes straight to the share office running. He doesn’t even have a shirt on but an old jacket with dabs of paint all over his face and his clothes. He gets called in for the interview but at first, he doesn’t have the courage to get in. but finally with full courage, he goes to the interview room. The interviewers get confused looking at him and how he can be this ignorant on such an important day. Instead of making excuses, he tells everything that happened yesterday. They ask for his qualifications but that too doesn’t impress them well. Chris tells the jury that he has the capability to seek the answer anyhow if someone questions him. One of the judges asks him if someone comes to give an interview without outing his shirt and he gives him the job too, what the reason may be behind this. Chris tells him that he probably has worn a very good pair of pants. The answer leaves the jury impressed. Hence he gets selected for the job. But this job is actually an internship given to 20 people for six months and at the end of the session only one of them will get the job. This leaves Chris a bit confused. So he tells one of the jury that he will inform him whether or not he will come to work. That man from the jury tells him that he has time till tomorrow morning to decide. He decides that he will work for the office.

 

Chris has sold some scanners and has a balance that will be enough for six months to live. He shifts to another house. But one day when he is returning from the office, he receives a letter from the government stating that since he has not paid the taxes the government has seized all his money. This leaves him speechless. Now he doesn’t have money to pay for the rent too. One day after returning from the office with his son he sees that the house owner has kept all his items out of the house. Now he is homeless too. He goes to one of his friend’s house to ask for the money he lent but his friend doesn’t open the door at all. Chris now has his belongings and his son but no idea where to go. So he goes to a metro station but has no idea where to go. He gets inside a washroom and his son falls asleep there. He decides to spend his night there only. He feels the lowest point of his life then and there. The next day he goes to a church to ask for the shelter but he is told that it is only for women and children. He asks for the next church and gets shelter. But the problem is that the church has limited seats and hence he should reach in time to get there.

 

 Now the real struggle begins. Although Chris has to work till seven in the office he works till 5 only. He doesn’t drink a drop of water because it will make him pee and it will waste his time. He doesn’t even waste a single minute and works continuously, brings his son back from school, and goes back to the church hurriedly. He still has the last scanner left and thinks about how to sell it. He goes to a hospital to sell but while showing the demonstration he realizes that it is not working. This wrenches his heart as it was his last hope.

 

While inspecting the machine, he finds out that one of the parts is not working but he cannot afford to buy it. So he goes to a hospital to sell his blood and buys the part from it. The machine starts working and he makes some money by buying it. With that money, he gets a room and sleeps easily with his son there.

 

 Chris on the other hand is preparing for a theory exam that he needs to pass in order to get the job. The exam day comes and Chris does it well. Now the result day has arrived and each of them is called upon by the same jury. Now it is Chris’s turn and he looks at the jury which is the same as in the first qualifier interview. The most senior of the jury tells Chris that he has worn a beautiful shirt. Chris replies that since it is going to be his last day so he wants to leave the place wearing a good shirt. He told this because he had no hope of getting the job among those highly qualified interns. That senior man from the jury asks him if he will wear the same shirt tomorrow too. This means that Chris has got the job. This leaves Chris in tears and he replies with a ‘yes’. Everything has changed in Chris’s life now. He is economically stable and living a happy life with his son. At the end of the movie, the real Chris Gardner is also shown on whom the whole movie is based. After working for a few years there, Chris establishes his own investment firm which he sells later on in multi-million dollars.

Forrest Gump

This movie was released on July 6, 1994. This romantic comedy-drama movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis who received an Oscar for Best Director and the screenplay was written by Eric Roth. The movie received six Oscars from thirteen Academy Award nominations.

The cast includes the following actors :

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump who received an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Robin Wright as Jenny Curran

Sally Field as Mrs. Gump

Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan Taylor

Mykelti Williamson as Benjamin Buford

Rebecca Williams as Lady at the bench

Michael Conner Humphreys as Young Forrest

 

Plot summary:

In the opening scene of the movie, a man is seen waiting for the bus. His name is Forrest Gump. Looking at him, viewers can sense that he is a little different from the other people, and feels like there is still childishness in him. Then a lady comes next to him to wait for the bus. She looks at her torn shoes of Gump and tells that she too had similar pair of shoes. Listening to her, Gump remembers his childhood and starts narrating the scene where Forrest Gump is a small child. His mother takes her to the hospital where the doctor puts a pair of weird shoes on him with metal rod retainers. He adds that he can never walk properly because his bone is bent. Gump starts walking with the shoes and feels uncomfortable. But his mother motivates him by telling him that God has created every individual differently. And hence he too is different and special.

 

His mother faces difficulty in getting  Gump admitted to the school because his IQ levels seem to be very low. But anyway, she convinces the principal and gets him admitted. On the first day of school when no one lets him sit with him on the school bus, a girl named Jenny welcomes him. Gradually these two become very good friends. Gump’s mother is a single parent which means she had lost her husband. For earning she has opened a guest house. One day, a very popular singer Elvis Presley comes to stay there. When Elvis was singing in his room, Gump goes there too and performs a very funny dance. Elvis loves that and makes it his hook step which makes him popular all over the world.

 

One day when Jenny and Gump were walking through the forest, some bullies from their class come and start throwing stones at Gump. Jenny tells him to run as fast as he can. Gump starts running with his speed increasing. And the rods retaining his legs start breaking and he starts running even faster, as fast as lightning. And hence now, his legs are completely fine and this is the first time he has discovered that he can run so very fast.

 

Now that they have grown up, the bullies are still being troublesome to them. Looking at them Gump starts running. Although they are chasing him in the car, they can’t catch him because Gump runs as fast as lightning.  While running in order to escape them, he reaches a football ground where the people were playing rugby. There too he runs so fast that he wins over the rugby player who was running with the rugby ball. This impresses the coach so very much and he asks who he is. The people around him tell him that he is a local idiot. The coach decides to add him to the group. And for this, he even gets admitted to the college through sports quota. Gump only knows that whatever happens, he should take the rugby ball and run as fast as he can. He runs so fast that they win each and every match they play. This makes him so popular all over the country and he is even added to the national team. After five years of playing for the team, he receives a degree from the same college. He gets amazed that he received the degree for running.

 

On graduation day, he gets approached by an army officer who gives him a brochure and asks him to grab the opportunity to get admitted to the army. Now Gump is ready to go to the army training. When he gets on the bus, no one lets him sit next to him. But a guy gives him the seat and tells him that his name is Bubba. He adds that his family has a business of cooking shrimp and he too wanted to start a shrimp boat company but his family admitted him to the army. Bubba keeps telling the same thing time and again.

 

They get their training started. They are given a task to assemble a gun and Gump does it so fast that the trainer gets amazed at him and says that he has never seen someone doing it this fast. One day during training, he looks through a magazine where he sees that the college has rusticated Jenny because she had her nude photos leaked. Gump becomes so very sad and goes to meet Jenny. He gets into a club where she was performing. The viewers were inappropriately touching Jenny which makes Gump so angry that he beats everyone up. After the incident, Jenny tells Gump that he can’t save her from every situation of life like this and hence should stop caring. But Gump adds that they had planned to get married when they grow up in their childhood. Jenny gets angry and rudely asks him the meaning of love, the meaning of marriage. Now Jenny tries to get into a car when Gump tells her that the army is sending him to Vietnam. She tells him to put himself first and run if he feels unsafe rather than trying to become a hero.

 

Now Gump and his friends are taken to the war area of Vietnam. There too, Bubba makes a plan that after capturing everything they will start catching shrimp from the lake and start a business. Gump accepts the deal and they head towards the war area. And then suddenly the enemies start firing at them. Gump fires at them too and also remembers what promise he had made to Jenny. So he runs from there saving his life. But he remembers that his friends are still stuck there. So he comes back and saves them. He also saves Lieutenant Dan there. But Bubba loses his life because he gets shot in the firing. Gump becomes very sad after losing his friend and assures his soul that he will fulfill the dream they saw. Now Gump gets praised by the army. But Lieutenant Dan is not happy with him because he had already lost his legs so didn’t want to live a life being handicapped.

 

All the injured are taken to the hospital. As Gump also got shot in the butt, so he stays there too.  One of the patients teaches him how to play ping pong. And he learns it so very well that he masters it. All the patients get amazed looking at the way he plays.

 

In an award ceremony, Gump is awarded with a medal due to his bravery. There reaches Jenny who becomes so proud of him and hugs him. Jenny has now started living a life as a hippie. She is a drug addict too. She is in a live-in relationship with another hippie. During Gump’s visit, he sees that guy beating Jenny which furies him and Gump beats that guy so much. The next day that guy comes to ask for pardon with Jenny and she accepts the pardon and she goes with him. This makes Gump sad. Now Gump has become a professional ping pong player. He has become a national ping pong player and is even sent to China to play there. He has become very popular. One day on his way he meets Lieutenant Dan. He is living a very difficult life. He tells Gump that he is an idiot and the government has given the medal to such an idiot. Gump is a thick-skinned person so he doesn’t get hurt. But rather he shares his plan with Dan that he will buy a ship and catch a lot of shrimp and help Bubba’s family too. Dan doesn’t believe him and says that he will join him if he does so.

 

No Gump gets retired from the army and receives a lump sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. He goes straight to Bubba’s house and tells his mother that he had promised Bubba and hence will buy a ship. His mother asks her if he is crazy but he doesn’t care that too. And hence Gump buys a ship and starts catching shrimps. But he can’t even catch a single shrimp. There comes Lieutenant Dan and he joins him too. But these two can’t succeed for a few days too. And one day a heavy thunderstorm arrives and damages the ship. The only ship left now is Gump’s ship. Hence now they are able to catch tons of shrimp. They start getting rich. They start their nationwide trademark and hence get popular too. One day Gump gets to know that his mother is ill through tv. And hence he runs from the ship and gets straight into his house. After a few days of his stay, his mother passes away. Gump grieves the loss of his mother and decides not to go back to the ship and leaves the company in the hands of Dan. Dan one day informs him through the mail that he has invested all their money in the Apple company and hence will always have enough money for the rest of their lives. Gump gives a huge amount of money to the Church, the hospital, and Bubba’s mother too. Bubba’s family now has a very easy and luxurious life.

 

But Gump is not happy with his life. He misses Jenny so much. Surprisingly, Jenny, one day comes to his house. They talk a lot. He even tells Jenny this time too that he wants to marry her. But Jenny refuses him by telling him that he should not marry a girl like her. And that night they get intimate with each other. But the next day when Gump wakes up, Jenny had already left the house. This leaves Gump so sad. Now he starts running, running through every edge of the nation. He runs for more than a year. He becomes popular due to this too.  People start joining him too. After three years two months fourteen days and sixteen hours of running, he stops and tells that he is very tired and now wants to go home. After he reaches home, he receives a letter from Jenny where she mentions her address.

 

Now the scene comes back to the present day where Gump is telling his story to the lady. He shows the address and that lady tells him that it is very near to that place and hence he should not take the bus. And he goes to the place running. He meets Jenny and she shows him her son. Actually, he is Gump’s son. He becomes so happy looking at him. Jenny tells him that she has some kind of virus in her body and hence is not doing well. He asks her to come with him and he will take care of her. They get married and live in their house but very soon Jenny passes away. He misses Jenny so much. He spends the rest of his life with his son little Gump and teaches him everything he knows. They live a happy life together.  

Requiem for a Dream

This psychological thriller drama was released on October 27, 2000. This movie was directed by Darren Aronofsky while the screenplay was written by Darren Aronofsky himself and Hulbert Selby Jr.

The cast includes:

Jenifer Connelly as Marion Silver

Jared Leto as Harry Goldfarb

Ellen Burstyn as Sara Goldfarb

Marlon Wayans as Tyrone C. Love

Christopher McDonald as Tappy Tibbons

Hubert Selby Jr. as Laughing Guard

James Chinlund as Space Oddity

Sean Gullette as Arnold The Shrink

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie shows a boy blackmailing his widow mother that he will sell the stuff from his home if she doesn’t do what he tells her and his mother gives him a locket. Now the present scene is shown where the boy grows up and his name is Harry. The scene shows Harry selling his mother’s television with his friend Tyrone to buy drugs. This depicts that he and his friend are drug addicts. Her mother goes to the same shop where his son sells the television to buy it once again. The shopkeeper asks the lady why she doesn’t send her son to the police for his addiction. She tells him that she has no one except him so she can’t do so.

 

 The lady, too has an addiction to watching a tv show too much. One day she gets a call from a person from the same tv show who tells her that she has been selected to appear in that game show. This makes her overwhelmed with joy. She starts dreaming to appear in the show.  She decides to wear a red dress for the show. She goes to her neighbor to tell her that she has been selected and she will be wearing that red dress for the show. But that dress doesn’t fit her since she has become overweight. Her friend gives her a diet book named “Ten Pounds in ten days” in order to help her lose weight. She works accordingly with the restricted diet for a few days but can’t continue that because of her eating habits. So she plans to meet a doctor who would help her to lose her weight.

 

She tells her doctor that she would have to lose around 20 kilograms of weight. The doctor prescribes her some pills and tells her to take them during her meal. In the next scene, it is shown that Tyrone and Harry are planning to start a legal business by collecting money after selling cocaine. Harry has a girlfriend whose name is Marion. She lives away from her family and she, too is a drug addict. Harry tells her that after earning money from the sold drugs, he will make a designer showroom for her so they can earn, more money.

 

They start selling drugs and as a result, they earn a lot of money. They collect that money in a box. As time flies, they start having better lives. Harry buys a big television for his mother too. With time, the amount of money starts decreasing too because they spend it on many things. One day during drug dealing, Tyrone gets caught by the police and gets locked up in a prison. Harry has to pay a big sum of money to get him back. 

 

After all these incidents, Harry goes to meet his mother Sara where he gets to know that she is taking some medicines regularly which even she doesn’t know what they exactly are. He forbids her from taking them because he knows that they can induce some addiction too. But she tells him that it's nothing but the medicine that will help her lose some weight so that she can go to her favorite show and tell the viewers about her life and her husband. This will make her famous all through the country and she will start making some money too. After that, Harry leaves that place and starts crying looking at the condition of his mother.

 

Now all the money that they had made is spent. They don’t even have enough money to buy the drug so that they can sell them. Looking at the situation Harry asks his girlfriend Marion to get intimate with her psychiatrist and ask for a sum of two hundred dollars. After that, they will be able to restart their business.  Marion keeps on rejecting but finally, Harry convinces her to do so. She gets into a physical relationship with her psychiatrist Arnold and as a result, she gets paid a sum of two hundred dollars. Harry goes with Tyrone to buy the drugs with that money. But it is so crowded that people start hurting each other physically. And gun firing starts there too. This makes the scene so chaotic that they have to come back without receiving the drugs.

 

On the other hand, Sara is rampantly losing her weight. Although she has lost her weight, she has also got addicted to the medicine. As a result, she has started hallucinating scenes. To avoid them, she starts taking higher doses of those medicines rather than consulting the doctors. She even hallucinates that she has reached the show and the host has been asking her questions.

 

When Marion gets to know that Harry and Tyrone didn’t receive any drugs that day, she gets mad. Marion and Harry get into a fight. Finally, Harry assures Marion that he knows about another drug dealer named Tim. But when he calls Tim, he says that he wants a girl in exchange for the drugs. After that, Harry cuts the call and decides to go to Florida to get the drugs that are farther from his place. On the other hand, Marion is not getting drugs and that is making her sick. So she decides to call Tim by herself. She cuts the call first but next time she talks to him and asks for his address. She goes to the address and gets into a physical relationship with him. Tim gets impressed with her and invites her to a party too.

 

On the other hand, Harry and Tyrone have reached Florida. But a wound starts appearing on Harry’s hand due to multiple injections taken. This gets worse day by day and hence Tyrone takes him to the hospital. The doctor understands that it is a case of drug addiction and hence calls the police. The police take them to the police station.

 

On the other hand, Sara has not been invited to the show yet. She gets so lost in her hallucinations that she sees her refrigerator walking toward her. Sara runs from the apartment and gets into a train. There she talks with the passengers in such a weird way that they understand that she is not doing well. So they take her to the hospital where she receives so many harsh shock treatments.

 

Harry on the next hand is suffering from immense pain in his arm in prison. So he is taken to the hospital. Tyron is made to work very hard in prison which gets him to mental stress. Tyrone starts crying looking at the condition of Harry. Now Harry calls Marion that he will return back soon and even tells her not to leave him. When Marion asks him if he can come today, Harry starts crying.

 

All the treatments done to her do no work on Sara. So the doctors decide to do shock treatment for her. In the next scene, it is shown that Marion has reached the party. And a lot of gang members are seen at that sex party. Here these people ask her to do different sexual acts.

 

Now different scenes are parallelly shown in the movie. In one scene, it is shown that the shock treatment worsens the conditions of Sara. In the next scene, Harry is seen lying on the hospital bed with his arm cut. In the other scene, Tyrone is seen to be so depressed and energyless. While in the next scene, Marion arrives at her home with a huge sum of money lying on her couch after getting sexually used. Sara is still hallucinating herself on the tv show while Harry is hopelessly remembering his and Marion’s dream of becoming a successful businessman. The movie depicts how they ruin each of their lives due to addiction.

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction is a crime drama movie. It is one of the best cult classic movies to be ever made. Regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time by a number of critics, it covers a story containing crime drama. It won the award for Palme d’Or (Cannes 1994) and the Original Screen Play award (OSCAR 1995). It was released in the year 1994. The movie was produced by Lawrence Bender.

Written and Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Cast:

Tim Roth as Pumpkin

Amanda Plummer as Honey Bunny

Laura Lovelace as Waitress

John Travolta as Vincent Vega

Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield

Phil LaMarr as Marvin

Frank Whaley as Brett

Burr Steers as Roger

Bruce Willis as Butch Coolidge

Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace

Paul Calderon as Paul

Bronagh Gallagher as Trudi

Rosanna Arquette as Jody

Eric Stoltz as Lance

Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace

Plot Summary:

The opening scene of the movie shows a scene where people are dining. Two robbers come into the small dinner and take out their guns.

Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield who are the two lead characters of the movie come to an apartment to take a briefcase with their associate, Brett. They are hitmans (those who kill for money). They have come to take the briefcase for their boss, Marsellus Wallace who is a gangster. While Vincent was checking the contents of the briefcase, Jules shoots one of the associates of Brett and kills him. Brett starts to utter a passage from the bible trying to deceive Vega and Jules, but they both shoot Brett and kill him instead.

They now come to a bar to deliver the briefcase to Wallace. They have to wait for some time as the boss was bribing a boxer, Butch Coolidge to die in the upcoming game. The next day, Vincent buys some heroin from Lance and injects it. As Wallace was out of time, Vincent had to take care of Wallace’s wife Mia Wallace for some time. They have dinner in a 1950s-themed restaurant. They participate in a dance-off contest and win the contest. They come back home with the trophy. While Vincent was using the bathroom, Mia finds a heroine from Vincent’s overcoat and uses it thinking it is cocaine. Vincent finds overdosed Mia lying on the sofa and takes her to Lance’s home in a hurry. Then, an adrenaline shot beside the heart of Mia wakes her up.

Butch Coolidge betrays Wallace and kills the opponent boxer instead. Then, he and his girlfriend Fabienne are shown in a hotel room, where they start planning to run away from Wallace. Butch finds out that the watch that his father has given was missing. His girlfriend had forgotten to pack the watch. He is angry with his girlfriend and goes away from the hotel to retrieve the watch. When he reaches home to take the watch, he finds a gun kept at his kitchen counter and also hears the sound of the toilet flushing. Vincent comes out from the bathroom and butch shoots him and kills him. While Butch was waiting for the traffic lights to go green, Marsellus sees him and his Butch are injured in an accident. Marsellus chases butch down to a store. The store owner Maynard catches both of them and locks them inside a basement. A security guard named Zed joins Maynard. Zed takes Marsellus to another room to rape him. They leave Butch with a man who was wearing a costume. Butch escapes and kills the man. He was about to escape from the place but decides to save Marsellus instead. He takes a katana (a type of long knife) from the store and goes to save Marsellus in the other room. Butch kills Maynard and Marsellus kills Zed with Maynard’s shotgun. Marsellus tells Butch that they are at peace with each other until Butch does not spill out about Marsellus’s rape to anyone. Marsellus leaves Los Angeles forever from now on. Butch goes to pick up his girlfriend Fabienne in Zed’s chopper biker.

In the earlier scene where Jules and Vincent kill Brett, another man comes out from the bathroom and heavily shoots them. But, fortunately, none of the bullets touch either of them and they then kill the other guy. Jules believes that to survive in that situation is not less than a miracle but Vincent doesn’t agree to that. While Jules was driving, Vincent unknowingly shoots Brett’s associate Marvin and kills him. They hide the car in Jimmy’s house. Jimmy who is a friend of Jules says to them that they should clean up the mess before his wife returns back home. Jimmy is portrayed in the movie by the director himself, Quentin Tarantino. Marsellus sends his cleaner Winston Wolfe to Jimmy’s place. Wolfe insists Jules and Vincent clean the car and hide the dead body in the trunk of the car and take the car to a junkyard. Vincent and Jules change their clothes in Jimmy’s place and go to get some food for dinner. There, Jules explains to Vincent that he wants to get out of his criminal life. He believes that their survival earlier in the movie was a sign to retire from crime.

While Vincent was in the bathroom a couple who were shown to be dining in the first scene of the movie are shown. The girl’s name was Honey Bunny and the boy’s name was Pumpkin. They rob the people of the dinner. Jules then shows the briefcase which they got from Brett’s place and points them a gun to stop them from robbing the place. Honey Bunny is frightened and points her gun toward Jules. Then, Vincent comes out from the bathroom and points his gun toward Honey Bunny. This is a classic example of a Mexican Standoff (a strategy where everyone is pointing a gun toward each other and the strategic tension starts rising until the situation is settled). They let the robbers take the cash and leave. Vincent and Jules also leave the dinner taking their briefcase.

This is the ending scene of the movie.

The chronological order:

The story of Pulp Fiction does not run in chronological order. Here, three stories that are tangled with each other are shown simultaneously.  The movie begins at dinner and also ends at the dinner. In the movie, we are shown about six to seven different sequences. The correct chronological order of the movie is shown below.

 Flashback from Butch’s young life: where he is given the watch by his father.

The present: the car scene where Vincent and Jules are in a car. This scene is followed to Brett’s house, taking the briefcase and the death of Brett’s associate Marvin in the car 

Jimmy’s place: cleaning the car and going to dinner.

The dinner: the scene from the beginning and end of the movie (the scene with the couple).

 The bar: Vincent and Jules take a briefcase to Marsellus. Vincent and Butch see each other and the scene ends.

Vincent buys heroin from Lance and all the preceding incidents with Mia Wallace.

The scene with boxing matches up to the point where Butch kills Vincent in the apartment.

The ending scene: Butch and Wallace are locked down in the basement from where they escape. The ending scene is the one where Butch picks up his girlfriend on the bike.

A Beautiful Mind

This movie is based on the life story of Nobel Prize winner American Mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. The movie was directed by Ron Howard and the screenplay was written by Akiva Goldsman which was inspired by the biography of John Nash written by Sylvia Nasar.

The cast includes:

Russell Crowe as John Nash

Jennifer Connely as Alicia Nash

Paul Bettany as Charles Herman

Ed Harris as William Parcher

Adam Goldberg as Sol

Josh Lucas as Hansen

Plot summary:

The timeline of the opening scene of the movie is September 1947 where it is shown that John Nash, who is a scholar gets admitted to Princeton University. On the first day of college, he gets to meet a group of scholars in maths and science. He also meets a scholar named Martin Hansen. During their meeting, Nash tells Hansen that he has read both of his papers on Nazi Ciphers and non-linear equations and also confidently claims that both of his papers are neither innovative nor original ideas. Actually, Nash straightforwardly tells whatever is in his mind and never filters what to speak and what not to. He is a supremely intelligent and shy man. He is living in a different world. Now Nash goes to his room and meets his new roommate. His name is Charles Herman and he is a literature student. Charle’s nature is exactly opposite to Nash’s. At first, they cannot communicate smoothly but later on, they speak nicely. Nash tells him how each of his colleagues has collected their thesis paper but he has not because he wants to work on an original idea. John never goes to class but studies by himself.

 

John is so much involved in his work that he doesn’t know what is happening around him. Hence his friends think that he is a psycho. One day when John was working on his idea, he is called upon by Hansen to play a game. Hansen tries to pull his leg by telling him what if he never finds his original idea. John becomes worried and works non-stop for two days in a library. His friend Charles comes to meet him there and tells him that it has been two days since he has not gone out of the library. Charles asks him why he makes art on the window panes. John explains that he puts his ideas on the window He also adds that he has three ideas in his mind which he has drawn separately on the panes. He points to each of them, the first one is on a rugby game, the next one is about the pigeons fighting for grains and the third one is about a lady trying to catch the thief who has just stolen her purse. He wants to write a paper on their behavior on the above topics.

 

Charles now takes John to the bar. There they meet other classmates like Hansen. There comes a lady looking at John for a long time. His friends tell John to approach her. He goes there and lady asks him if he wants to buy a drink for her. But John tells her that he probably wants to exchange fluids (get intimate) with her. The lady gets disgusted, insults him, and leaves.

 

The next day, John’s lecturer informs him that all his friends have already collected their thesis but not him. The same night John goes to the bar. There comes a group of ladies, and particularly a very beautiful and attractive lady too.  Everyone gets attracted to her and wants to approach her. And there looking at the situation, Hansen states  Adam’s theory and tries to relate. He adds that every guy will first try to approach that beautiful lady. But when they get refused, they will try to approach the other ladies(her friends). Listening to Hansen, an idea strikes in John’s mind. He tells that Adam Smith needs a revision. He also adds that when each of them is approaching the same girl, they are blocking each other’s way and none of them may be accepted too. But afterward when they go to approach her friends, they, too will definitely reject them because no one wants to be the second option anyway. What if they don’t approach that very lady but approach the different ladies. In this way, John gets the idea of governing dynamic theory.

 

The next day, when John goes with the idea to his lecturer, he becomes very happy and optimistic about the idea because it’s an original idea on the one hand and something that completely rejects Adam Smith’s 150 years old theory. The professor also adds that John will get admission to any institute and he will get to go to the Wheeler labs. This becomes a great achievement for John. But he has to take two other friends who will work as a team with him. His roommate becomes very happy for him. The strange thing is Charles never comes in front of John’s friends but meets John only when he is alone.

 

5 years later, John is called to the Pentagon in 1953 to decode an encrypted code. John solves it in his mind only which leaves every officer so very surprised. At the same moment, John sees a man far away who seems to be keeping an eye on him. John doesn’t understand who he is. John on the other hand works as a lecturer at MIT. But he really doesn’t enjoy that job because he thinks that teaching or learning in class is total time waste. There too, he sees the same man who he saw in the Pentagon. The man approaches him and tells him that his name is William and he is from the Ministry of Defense Department. He tells John that he has been looking for someone like John for so very long to work for them to decode the information hidden in magazines and newspapers from The Soviet Union about their plans to attack America. John accepts the work and continuously tries to find out hidden messages in magazines and newspapers. After he gets any message, he keeps it in an envelope and puts it in a letter box outside a bungalow. Whenever he goes to that bungalow, he feels that someone from the Soviets is following him. This creates a lot of fear in him which makes him stay at his home all day. At this time, John gets close to one of his students named Alicia. These two truly fall in love with each other.

 

One day he goes to his old place, Princeton University. There he meets a little girl who asks her what he is doing there. She calls him by his name. John asks her how she knows his name and she says that her uncle Charles used to be his roommate. John tells his roommate that he has been dating a girl named Alicia and asks Charles if he should ask her for marriage. Charles motivates him to do so and John goes to Alicia to propose to her and she accepts too. Finally, they get married. Now, it has been 1954 AD and John still works for Parcher. One day after leaving the letter in the letterbox, he sees Parcher coming in the car. Parcher and he get followed by some car and they even get targeted by bullets too. But they save themselves anyway.

 

The next day, John goes to meet Parcher and clarifies that since his wife is pregnant, he can’t work for them any longer. But Parcher says that as already mentioned, he can’t leave like this because Russians know that he works for them. And if he leaves the work Parker won’t be able to give security to him from the Russians. This makes John so afraid and worried that his wife could also sense it. But John doesn’t tell anything to her. This makes her sad too.

 

One day John gets called by Harvard University to deliver a guest lecture. There he meets his old roommate Charles and his niece and John becomes so happy meeting them. After that, he goes to deliver the lecture. While delivering a lecture, he sees a few men and guesses that they must be from the Soviet. John runs from there but they catch him and take him with them. When John becomes conscious, he finds himself with a psychiatrist in a unit. They think that John Nash is having some mental problems. There he sees his old roommate Charles there. John feels that  Charles, too, must be from the Soviets. He starts shouting at Charles. But the doctor says that there is no one else except him and the doctor in the room. He is hallucinating people and situations. But he doesn’t believe the doctor. John is taken under control at some psychiatric unit.

 

 His wife Alicia comes there and the doctor informs her that John must be having some mental problem since the time he graduated. It is because he told that he had a roommate named Charles during graduation but in reality, there was no one named Charles. Alicia can’t believe whatever the doctor said but the doctor convinces her by asking her if she ever met him, seen his photo, or talked to him on the phone. He even adds that he called Princeton University and they told him that there was no one named Charles Herman at the university. Even John had no roommate during his living in Princeton. He also adds that John has another imaginary friend too whose name is William Parcher with whom he is working on a project against Russians. Not only this, John even thinks that the doctor too must be a Russian agent. Alicia goes to John’s workplace where she finds tons of newspaper cuttings. She even goes to the bungalow and looks at the letterbox but she finds each of his letters there. This means that they were never received. This really meant that John was working for the government only in his imagination.

 

After that Alicia comes to meet John where he tells Alicia that he has been wanting to tell her for so long that he has been working for the government. And now that the Russians know about him, their lives are in danger. He even adds that she should meet William Parcher. Alicia tells John that there is no one named William Parcher in the world. And he is not even working for the government and all the letters he sent were still in the letterbox, unopened and she shows all the letters. She tells John that he is ill and that whatever he is seeing is not the real world. John cannot believe his wife and leaves that place. Actually, John is suffering from a disease called Schizophrenia where he visualizes various scenes, and peoples and live in a different unreal world. 

 

One day in the psychiatric unit, John starts making an incision in his hand and bleeds heavily because he thinks that the army had put a device in his hand by which they could detect him, which was not real. John is given shock treatments for weeks and after that, he is sent to his home. He is given some medicines too. Actually, John is schizophrenic and has so many imaginary friends like Charles Herman, Charle’s niece, and William Parcher. The pills he takes help him to not visualize imaginary scenes. The pills make him so inactive and blunt. This even harms the physical relationship between him and his wife. John’s condition makes Alicia so sad and she keeps sobbing. Due to this, John starts skipping his pills and as a result, John one day starts visualizing a man running out in his boundary. John follows him and reaches a place where he sees William Parcher. John says Parcher that he is not real. But Parcher convinces him that he is real and even takes him to a new place where John should work. After that, John gets convinced and starts working from that place.

 

 One day his wife comes to know about that place and sees similar cuttings of the magazine at that place too. And she realizes that John once again is getting visions and his mental health has gone downstairs once again. Alicia comes back home running because she had left the baby alone with John. She finds the baby nearly drowning in the bathtub. But John tells her that there was Charles who was taking care of their baby in the bathtub. Alicia gets so worried and angry and shouts that there is no one named Charles. She goes down to call the doctor. There at that moment, John sees Parcher too. Parcher apparently tells John to stop his wife from calling. John starts visualizing that Parcher that is going to shoot Alicia. John pushes Alicia to save her. Alicia gets worried and starts leaving the place in the car.  Parcher tells John to stop her. And there come Charles and his niece Mercie too. This makes John think a lot. This is the pivotal point of the movie. He then goes to stop his wife’s car and tells her that she was right because Mercie must not be real because she has not grown old for years. And hence realize that he truly is schizophrenic.

 

Then he goes to the doctor. The doctor asks him if he still can visualize the imaginary characters and John accepts the fact that he still sees them. The doctor asks him why he skipped medicine and he replies that the pills were making him slow and he was not being able to be a good father and a husband. Doctor tells him to take medicine to help prevent the worsening of the situation and the doctor leaves the place. John tells Alicia that he wants to deal with his situation without taking medicines and she accepts it too.

 

John goes to his  college Princeton University where he meets his old colleague and competitor Hansen. Hansen is the head of the mathematical department there. He permits John to work in the library. But John is still dealing with his hallucinations. He sees William and Charles who try to divert him. He tells them that they are not real. John tries to control his mind and normalizes the visions. He continues his research and time passes by. John gets to see his imaginary friends in his old age too but he normalizes those things. In March 1994, a man approaches him and tells him that the government wants to honor him with Nobel Prize. All the great professors gift him their pen which is one of the greatest honor given.

 

For his research in game theory (which had the greatest impact on global trade and labor relations too), John gets honored with Nobel Prize in December 1994. But John tells that he would like to dedicate that prize to his wife Alicia because it was she who supported him in every step of his life and his decisions and fought his problems with full courage and dedication. 

Black Swan

This movie was released on December 3, 2010. This psychological horror movie was directed by Darren Aronofsky and the screenplay was written by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, Andres Heinz, and Darren Aronofsky.

The cast includes the following actors:

Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers

Mila Kunis as Odile, Lily

Vincent Cassel as Thomas Leroy

Winona Ryder as Beth Macintyre

Barbara Hershey as Erica Sayers

Benjamin Milliepied as David

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie shows the lifestyle of a girl named Nina who lives in New York City with her mother. Nina is a ballet dancer who dances in New York City Ballet Company. She has a dream of becoming a lead dancer. Actually her mother, too happened to be a dancer.

 On her way to work on a train, she finds a girl looking so similar to her. But she can’t look at her clearly due to the crowd and obstructions there. When Nina gets to her dance group, she gets to know that the lead dancer of her group is going to be changed because people are getting bored looking at the same face. Their group leader, Thomas informs everyone that he will be choosing the lead dancer, also known as ‘Swan Queen’ soon by taking auditions. Nina sees how the former Swan Queen was breaking everything up in her room(the room where Swan Queen gets ready) after she got to know that she was no longer the lead dancer, Nina goes to the damaged room and remembers how she always wanted to be in that room. Now that she wants to be the lead dancer, she shows up for the auditions. Her performance of a white swan impresses Thomas so very much. Now he asks Nina to dance as a black swan, but she gets distracted and loses her balance. This makes Nina so very sad. When she comes out, she gets to see a lady so very similar to Nina. The only difference was that the lady was in all black and wore confidence while Nina was in all white.

 Now Nina comes back home and starts crying hugging her mother because she couldn’t give her best today. She again performs the same dance to see where she went wrong in the audition. But this time due to so much consciousness she loses her balance and hurts herself. Her toenail gets broken And her mom tells her that she can’t dance for a few days. But Nina says that she won’t step back but rather dance again tomorrow for the audition. The next day, Nina goes to Thomas and tells him that she wants to do the Black Swan dance once again as she has known where she went wrong. But Thomas says that Swan Queen has already been selected and her name is Veronica and it’s too late. Now Nina being very upset tries to leave Thomas’s cabin but he stops her and tells her that she performs the dance of the white swan so very well but not of the black swan and it is because perfection in the black swan dance doesn’t come from practice but rather she should make herself free, her soul free from all the bonding and should feel black swan. Nina assures him that she will try her best. At the next moment, Thomas tries to come near to Nina but she pushes him back and leaves his cabin. Thomas, instead of being angry becomes happy because it was his test. For being a black swan, a dancer should have a lot of anger and rage in their eyes and he could see that in her eyes through the test. Hence, Nina passes the final test.

 The following day, when Nina comes to the dance company, she sees that Swan Queen is none other than herself. She becomes happy and calls her mother to tell her the happy news. Her mother couldn’t fulfill her own’s dream of being a swan queen due to pregnancy and hence she wanted her daughter to live her dream and hence was very happy too. After that, she is taken to a party where she is introduced as Swan Queen and everyone delivers good wishes and applause for her. At the party, Nina realizes that her skin is coming off her finger and is bleeding too. So she goes to the washroom to remove her skin. At that time, Nina realizes that something unusual is happening to her. When she comes out of the washroom, she sees the lady who was the swan queen before. The lady insults Nina and says that she has no right to work in that role. Also, she adds that she is a weak girl and that to perform black swan, one should have a very bold personality. She even blames Nina that she must have compromised with Thomas to get the role. Thomas comes to the scene and takes Nina out from there. He even adds that Nina should give no care to such people and always be strong and confident.

 The next day during practice, she gets to know that the former swan queen met an accident and hence the practice is canceled. Nina goes to the hospital with Thomas and she tells him that the former swan queen is going through all this because of her. Thomas tries to convince Nina that she is not right but rather the lady herself got to the accident to give herself a punishment. He also adds that she had been a swan queen for this long just because of her boldness and bravery. Now Nina goes to meet the lady and finds her in a critical situation. That day for the first time, Nina locks her room and sleeps. The next day she goes to practice and she does it so well.  When everyone leaves, Thomas asks her to dance with her and tries touching her inappropriately. She gets afraid of the situation. Thomas tells Nina that she still has fear in her and until she has this fear inside her she can never dance as a black swan. Nina becomes sad and starts crying, her co-dancer Lily sees that and tells Nina to be confident that she is a very good dancer and would certainly perform the best. The next day, Nina again starts practicing the dance and continuously dances. But Thomas doesn’t even ask her to stop. This makes her insane and shouts at Thomas about why he is doing so. Thomas replies that since Nina was crying yesterday, she is not strong yet and definitely needs to be stronger. Nina realizes that Lily must have told everything to him and goes to her to ask why she did so. She even asks Lily to be out of her matters from now on. Lily asks for pardon and offers to go out with her. Nina grants her pardon and goes to a club with her. Nina gets heavily drunk. Lily adds something to Nina’s drink which makes her dance too much. When she gets to her conscience, she goes to her home and Lily too goes there with her. These two get intimate that night. But the other morning when Nina wakes up, she realizes that it has already become too late and her door is locked from inside and Lily is not there too. She opens the door and goes outside and finds her mom so upset.

 When she reaches the studio, she finds that Lily has already reached there. She understands that Lily left her sleeping to show everyone her dance. She feels sorry for being late and even asks Thomas pardon and he tells Nina to practice. This day Nina practices with full aggression. Afterward, she goes to Lily and confronts her that she knows Lily added something to her drink and this made her sleep for that long. But Lily becomes shocked and tells Nina that although they had gone out Lily had gone to her home after the party. Nina feels that Lily is doing all this to take her place. When practicing, Nina realizes that Lily and Thomas are making eye contact. This makes Nina worried and forces her to think if she is going to get replaced. Hence Nina practices with full effort during final practice and performs so well that everyone appreciates her.

Now Nina is taken to the tailor to take the measurement for the dress of the swan queen. Then she sees Lily too and becomes surprised. Lily explains that she, too had come there to make the dress of the swan queen as an alternative to Nina and that if anything happens to Nina that day, she would perform instead. This makes Nina worried and tells Thomas that Lily always wanted to take the place of Nina and hence asks him to remove her from the alternative role. But Thomas convinces Nina that every lady would want to be the swan queen but she should not let anyone snatch it from her with all her hard work and bravery. This motivates Nina and she keeps practicing all alone.

 At night when she is practicing alone, she catches Thomas and Lily getting intimate. This upsets Nina and makes her feel that she is betrayed. So she goes to the hospital to tell the former swan queen everything.  But that lady starts hurting herself when she sees Nina. So Nina leaves the place and even starts visualizing horrible scenes. Then Nina gets to her home and gets unconscious. When she becomes conscious she remembers that today is the swan performance day. Her mom stops her from going but Nina anyhow comes out.

 At the dance company, Nina sees Thomas preparing Lily in a swan queen dress. But Nina dresses herself in a swan queen dress and Thomas doesn’t even stop her from doing so because he sees the aggression in Nina’s face that is required to dance as a black swan. Nina performs white swan dance so well but she is insecure too if Lily gets to perform black swan. This breaks her concentration and she falls down but she gets up and dances again. She tells Thomas that she fell because of someone else. Nina goes to her changing room but sees that Lily is getting ready in a black swan dress. Nina and Lily first get into a verbal fight and later on, they start attacking each other and Nina hurts Lily with a broken piece of mirror and Lily dies. Nina hides the dead body in the bathroom. Her eyes start turning into a black swan and it is seen that there is no fear in her eyes. Nina with her full fury and confidence performs the black swan dance. Everyone appreciates Nina and Thomas becomes happy too. Then Nina comes to her green room and finds blood flowing from the bathroom. She hides it with the cloth. At the same moment she hears someone knocking on the door. To her greatest surprise, it was Lily. Now she feels pain in her stomach and realizes that the broken piece of the mirror is in her stomach. She starts bleeding. Thomas comes to her that her dance was so well that it will always be remembered in history.

 Actually, whatever was happening to Nina, it was she herself hallucinating it. Since she felt Lily was her competitor, she used to get her in her visions. At last, also, she had not actually attacked Lily but instead hurt herself to punish her since she couldn’t perform the white swan dance that well. It is also shown that Nina can’t perform well whenever she has fear of something or is under-confident. But when she freed herself at the last, she could give her best. This inspires every viewer to never be insecure, afraid, or underconfident during any performance or any step of life. Also, this movie delivers the lesson that the limit should not be crossed in the race of achieving anything.