Code breaking.

Dealving further into our genre, I found this article on the Guardian film blog about a new psychological trailer by Darren Aronofsky, called the Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as two rival ballet dancers. I love the fact that simply by having it set in the decadent world of ballet and performing, it is already breaking the conventions of it's genre - ballet being an unusually glamourous and stereotypically feminine backdrop in comparison to the generally more male and urbanized settings of psychological thrillers e.g. derelict buildings, busy cities etc. - though when considered the world of dance and ballet is just as pyschologically intense, if not more so, than many others. Perhaps having their psychological thriller in such an unconventional setting will have changed their whole handling of the genre itself - instead of a faster and more abrasive thriller, maybe they will have handled in a more fragile and tender way, more gracefully to be fitting to grace of the ballet itself? I'm in love with this idea of setting our own thriller - something we'd originally foreseen as very gritty and underground, to somewhere completely uncharacteristic and innovative, glamourizing our thriller as it were. The trailer isn't a teaser and elements of the narrative are revealed, but I'm still finding the narrative hard to decipher - which the article discusses, could it be mental illness it's toying with or are there elements of the supernatural, as some scenes suggest? There doesn't seem to be too much of a buzz around it and I can't seem to find any sort of promotional website for it but I will be interested to see the teaser trailer, and the actual film, when it's released.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/aug/18/black-swan-natalie-portman-trailer