Comments on: The Prestige Movie Review (9.5/10)

By: mick

mick — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:36:30 +0000

The question of who is more evil may not be as important as what is the same thing behind the two magicians. It’s obssession. Borden 1&2 adhered to the old way of doing it: consciously sacrificing half life to achieve an extreme form of excellence, though not magicalness. Angier went into the dark, the unknown, in search of his fantasy, and unfortunately he made it. The difference between the two? Yeah, Bordens consciously sacrificed and were unconsciously obssessed; Angier was consciously obssessed and unconsciously sacrificed himself.

By: mick

mick — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:25:46 +0000

There is no need to differentiate between Angier and Clone Angier, since they are the same. It takes a little philosophical thinking here: when two men are utterly the same in appearance, mind and all, they are ONE and the SAME! That is where Angier has lost himself and ruined himself. Who was me? Was it another me suffering the pains of drowning? No answer. Borden 1&2 sacrificed ‘two-ness’ to settle for half life for each, while Angier completely failed to understand whether there was one, or two. That part made me feel something for the guy in the end of the movie.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:27:54 +0000

I am not sure I agree with you in that it is Angier’s clone that lives on and the original one that drowns every night. Although your analysis makes sense, the way I understood it when he says towards the end of the movie that “It took courage. It took courage to climb into that machine every night, not knowing If I’d be the man in the box or in the prestige”…is that he took a big risk of being the one drowning but so far he has managed to be the one at the prestige and thus surviving to be present in front of Borden with all his hatred and spite…At least I left the theater with that impression….

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:04:02 +0000

What I like about your reviews, is that not only are they very well though of, but you always give us little facts that I find very interesting. When I saw ‘The Prestige’, I was naturally fascinated by this fictional Tesla machine that recreates an identical clone of objects and even people as well…but I thought is was the complete work of the writer’s imagination, it is really interesting to know that Tesla is actually a real scientist who has majorally affected the electromagnetic field and Tesla is actually a measuring unit in those infamous MRI machines that we have all experienced or at least seen on ER, House and Grey’s Anatomy… very cool!!!