[SPOILERS] Are you watching closely?
Posted: June 11th, 2012, 5:38 pm
You'd have to have 2 independent layers of snow.darkest_knight wrote:I still want to know how light bulbs sticking out of the snow can light up.
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You'd have to have 2 independent layers of snow.darkest_knight wrote:I still want to know how light bulbs sticking out of the snow can light up.
This very simple realization just occurred to me as I read that: Angier's trick with the clones and the machine is a direct parallel to the bird trick that is introduced at the beginning of the film. Though Angier's trick is obviously a more high-tech version, the principle is the same. Angier kills a clone of himself everytime he performs the trick, just as one of the identical birds is killed everytime the trick is performed. The first and last scenes of The Prestige now almost seem to have an Inception like quality in the fact that the first scene shows the apparatus (birdcage used in the trick) surrounded by the clones (the birds in the birdcages) and the last scene shows the apparatus (Tesla's machine) surrounded by the clones (Angiers in the water tanks). The main difference is in the beginning the clones (birds) are alive and at the end the clones (Angeirs) are dead. This is a nice correlation for the beginning and ending of a movie, life to death. Now that I think about it, the life and death also correlates well to the state of the magic. In the beginning of the film the magic of the trick is still alive and mystifying to the viewer. By the end of the film, the magic of the trick is dead and the viewer is left seeing the brutality that is the true nature of the trick.Too many pages here, but I like to start simply with the disappearing bird trick.
You want to be fooled. You don't want to know the secret.
Behind Cutter and the little girl are a lot of identical birds.
If one wasn't killed during the trick, he wouldn't need so many.
It's awful when you find out like Sarah's nephew.
It's no longer magic, but butchery.
Foreshadowing of course, but also showing Borden's trick was no trick at all. (which many of us saw)
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Could be. There's the occurrence of duplicity in the film - Angier's clones, thekahern93 wrote:This is something that struck me during the first couple times I watched the film and I have yet to make complete sense of it so maybe y'all can help. The characters in the film all die by either hanging, drowning, or gunshot.
Drowning- Julia and Angier's clones
Hanging- Sarah and Freddy Borden
Gunshot- only Angier although Alfred Borden's fingers are shot off by Angier during the bullet catch
Do you think there is any significance to that?
Well, people may disagree with this, but I feel that Freddy Borden is very much responsible for pushing Sarah over the edge and resulting in her hanging herself. So the fact that they both died via hanging struck me as significant. Angier and Borden both shot each other in order to each revenge for a loved ones death (Julia and Freddy). The drowning one puzzles me though, it could be a number of things (but then I guess so could all of them). Julia's death resulted in Angier's slow progression into "getting his hands dirty", and him killing his clones every show is the extreme of that progression. Both Julia's death and the death of the clones could also represent the dangers and sacrifices that are inherent with performing magic. Julia drowned because they were trying a new knot in order to improve the trick, and Angier's clones had to die in order for him to keep performing his version of the Transported Man. Maybe I'm looking too far into this death duplicity thing, then again its Nolan so there's no such thing as too deep, but I've been trying to figure out if there's any symbolism behind the specific methods of murder/death that appeared in the film.Could be. There's the occurrence of duplicity in the film - Angier's clones, the
Borden twins
thing - so they could be allusions to it.
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I can see that. Her clear unease at the fact that she is essentially married to two people ("Do you love me today?") That must have something to do with it, not least psychologically!kahern93 wrote:Well, people may disagree with this, but I feel that Freddy Borden is very much responsible for pushing Sarah over the edge and resulting in her hanging herself.Could be. There's the occurrence of duplicity in the film - Angier's clones, the
Borden twins
thing - so they could be allusions to it.
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Erik wrote:WARNING: This topic will pretty much contain all spoilers about the ending of The Prestige. If you haven't seen the movie, I would advise you to stop reading here.
I just watched The Prestige again, for the first time in like 12 months (which is very long for a movie I like so much!)
Now, the last words that where spoken are these:
Cutter: Now you're looking for the secret. But you won’t find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.
I can't get this off my mind. To me, in the ending, everything is explained. Borden has a twin brother, they both take turns and pretend to be Fallon one at a time, that's his trick on the Transported Man. Algiers uses something different. A machine that hasn't even a name. It's not a transporting device, it's a duplicator. It places a copy of something or someone, on a specific place. Every question raised in the movie, is answered.
Yet still Cutter tries to convince us something we haven't seen.
Is there something in this movie we didn't see. Something that wasn't shown or more likely: was shown, but we didn't see? Is there like a second twist-ending?