Natalie Portman

Front runners lived up to their billing as Oscar winners Sunday night at the 83rd annual Academy Awards, held at Hollywood’s Kodak Theater. The favorites in virtually every category ended up taking home statues by night’s end, including a number of films with significant conscious creation/law of attraction themes.

The oppressiveness of limitation can be a living hell to endure, especially for those whose aspirations go beyond merely existing. Escaping the stifling mediocrity of such a state generally requires us to go through some profound form of personal metamorphosis (and subsequent liberation), one that may take us to corners of our being that we never knew existed (including some of a potentially disturbing nature). Such is the challenge put to the heroine of the dark new thriller, “Black Swan.”