I also think that the increased distance is supposed to be what makes this the most impressive version of the trick. I always wondered where exactly the transported Angier showes up each night, and whether or not is is concealed from view (like a closet near the balconey) or is he just depending on ...

I think if you're looking for answers based on the cat's positioning, you're thinking way too hard. Not really. Someone had to make decisions (likely Nolan, or an at least effects supervisor or tech) on what the sequence looked like when the cat flashes. An English teacher I quite liked taught use ...

I have to wonder how much of a sacrifice this really is for Angier. Consider this... You sit a table across from a stranger, and a man with a gun flips a coin - heads you die, tails the stranger get it. The dead man is taken away and the winner starts the game again with a new opponent. After coming...

One interesting factor in the Angier copy saga - The Prestige Angier for each performance has never actually had the memory of being the man in the box. As far as he is concerned, he stepping into the machine x nubmer of times, and came out x number of times alive. The Box Angier (who is drowning th...

Orator - A person who can purposfully talk in his sleep and communicate up to the operator. Shepard - A person who can guide and manipulate projections, block them from entering the dreamspace, or find a specific one in the dream. When they the dreamer they can hide their mind so the projections do ...

I like the line from voice over Borden towards the begining "Two young man devoted to an illusion... Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone." Clearly the meaning changes once you know about Fallon, but the I love how the truth hides in plain site here. It also is a nice complement to the li...

I took her assumption that Mal would be in her childhood home as a further demonstation that Adriadne doesn't understand the depth of connection between Cobb and Mal. She is young enough that her intimate connections are still largely with her family, but Mal's emotional universe is centered sqarely...

I always thought the time left to finish the job was a bit off, and it didn't really need to be (I think there was enough dramatic tension without cheating the time element so much). One explanation could be that Cobb did not know that the drawbridge was raised, so that his estimation of how long it...