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The pain and struggle is mostly true, but the rest of it, including the self-flagellation, is false. The complaint is that the movie is a caricature of the ballet world, but that wouldn't be a new complaint for most movies on most subjects. --Andre
Are you taking the term self-flaggelation literally? As in, ballet dancers literally beat or whip themselves? Cause I'm pretty sure that's not what she's saying. As for the rest of it, one could probably say that they are speaking from personal experience, having likely worked with many professional ballet dancers over the course of filming this movie. If the ballet dancers they were working with were eating celery for lunch instead of cheeseburgers, and not going out and drinking all night during a season - I don't see how that's any less accurate than anything else. Did anyone get all pissy like this about The Wrestler?