MegsanKatsy wrote:
My brother is theorizing that maybe Nina was sexually abused by her mother...what do you all think about this?
There isn't really anything in the movie to back up this claim...mental/emotional & verbal abuse are most definitely present though.  Her mother was also super controlling.  This all led to Nina being very repressed as well as being obsessed with control and perfection.  In many ways she was forced to remain a little girl because her mother didn't want her to make the same mistakes she did.  She was trying to live vicariously through her.