"Black Swan" Causes Controversy About Influence on Teen Girls

The newly released film, Black Swan, has caused much controversy and argument about the message it has sent to teen girls. An interesting article on a website that embraces plus size beauty, plus-size-tall.com, expresses outrage at the new film and even goes as far as to refer to the plot as "eating disorder porn." This contents and opinions of this article are a prime example of how the media can deeply affect the mind set of teenage girls when it comes to perceived beauty. The film describes a story about a woman striving to become a ballerina, something merely all of us girls once destined to be; this aspect of the movie creates a situation which one can relate to which further deepens the influence on girls. The article infers that "the glamorous life of the ballerina portrayed on the screen who is anorexic and bulimic could add one more trigger to the pressure of teen girls to be a certain size." Starring actress, Natalie Portman, confesses she was asked to lose a whopping twenty extra pounds off of her already thing figure and states that she does not recommend such extremes. Natalie explains that such eating patterns are common among ballerinas and goes on to address this issue, however, her featured movie has already caused enough damage. So now I am going to ask you, do you think the newly released film Black Swan is a negative influence on teen girls? Or even further, do you think this film goes as far as being classified as "eating disorder porn?"