SPOILERS
Not many people bring up the root of what made Nina (Natalie Portman) be hostile towards Lili (Mila Kunis) but it's made very clear from the occasional fondling to the sexual dreams Nina has with Lili correlating with her own sexual repression, fear and yearning to respond to Thomas' (Vincent Cassell) overtures, that what we see is a gay woman who was raised in a sexually repressed environment, that she has worked her whole life on becoming an ideal of femininity as well as being a product of a mother who has tried to live through her daughter because of her own failings. As the film nears the end and Nina's paranoia turns lethal, her unconscious realization at of killing Lili is killing any sign of Lesbianism, of preserving a conventional ideal of what is normal, within her which prompts her to kiss Thomas in a more confident way. She no longer feels the need to hide or be ashamed but you can't pretend to be someone you're not and that ends up being Nina's tragic downfall.
If you look how the movie is structured, Nina's hostility against Lili becomes more intense when Nina accidentally reveals to Lili that she has been fantasizing about her but while the scene is played for laughs, this is the point where Nina's instability takes a deeper turn. She becomes more violent, beats her mother and then kills Lili.
One thinks Nina sees Lili as the enemy because she's her rival but in a movie where Nina has to confront sexuality and then is unable to confront her sexual orientation which instills in her a psychopathic need to repress it and because of this, Lili becomes her target, it is what I got out from the movie.
Submitted September 15, 2018 at 11:44PM by Pedro645 https://ift.tt/2xfyaYd