The Prestige Spoilers being the cut and all through the comments

[puppetmaker]

Since I know at least one other person who would love to discuss the film I am putting up this entry. Don't click if you don't want to know


We both thought that Christian Bale's accent went in and out and that was bad action UNTIL the reveal that it was two people and then both the accent and the lines like "I love you but not today" made a hell of a lot more sense.

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[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think about the "Do you love me?" "Not today." until a day after I saw the flick. The accent never occured to me. Why would twin brothers have different accents? Him not knowing what knot he tied at the funeral made more sense. I knew early on that "Silent Bob" had to be a double or some other mystery thing. For some reason I fancied that he was some sort of magical creature that Christian had befriended. This is because the trailer led me to believe there'd be "real magic" in the movie. I was expecting a sort of "science vs magic" showdown. So the big reveal of the twin was kind of a letdown.

I don't know about you, but I had very little idea of the history of stage magic. The fact that they actually killed birds to do that cage trick sickened me. But I see it being very much a part of the plot. It's all about obsession. About doing whatever it takes to make the illusion.

I started feeling ill as soon as I saw the two cats. Because I remember years ago, when I was a kid, watching a Canadian short animated movie about a guy who invents or finds a teleporting machine. Except it teleports by making an exact duplicate and killing the original. And it's the source of much existential angst, both in the short movie and in my own head. So seeing Hugh do exactly that was much of a shock, and horrifying. He killed himself every night for the sake of the illusion. Or did he? I mean, following the memory chain, whenever he does the trick, he's the one who's transported. He never has to see the other him drown. As far as he's concerned, he never dies. It makes me brain hurt and my stomach flip.

And I just want to say that I found my inner fanboy squeeing a bit at David Bowie's portrayal of Tesla.