Can you really call the end reveals "twists"?

There were different reactions from viewers. Some claim they figured it all out quite early. others were surprised... some *still* abide by bizarre theories.

Me, for example, I did guess early enough that Tesla's machine is the answer to Angier's trick and his survival after drowning, but I didn't realize that Angier had been killing himself *every* damn time he performed his trick. Looking back, it should have been obvious, but perhaps the ghastliness of such suggestion prevented me from doing the final conclusion. Similarly, I guessed early that Fallon is Borden's double for the trick, but until the end I hadn't realized that the very Borden himself we've been watching throughout the movie wasn't actually a solid person but a composite, a mix of two different characters, each responsible for different set of episodes. It seemed to too hard to believe that somebody would go *that* far for the sake of the trick, even though clues for that conclusion were there as well.

I suppose my case is pretty much a median reaction and more or less what the director aimed to achieve.

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Oh my god! They killed Angier!
YOU BASTARDS!!!

Upon first viewing of the movie, the only "twists" that I saw coming, were:
- that Borden had a twin brother,
- that the Bordens were constantly switching places
- that Fallon was a twin brother in disguise.

What I didn't see coming:

- that Lord Caldlow was actually Angier,
- that Angier really drowned in the watertank (until the end of the movie, I expected that Angier had somehow faked his drowning)
- that the Tesla Machine worked as a duplicator machine (until we see the scene with the hats and two cats)
- that the Tesla Machine still worked as a duplicator machine when Angier brought it with him to London (Tesla had promised Angier that he would fix the "short-comings" of the machine)
- that Angier killed himself every night during the show.


At the beginning of the movie, it's been presented to us that Alfred Borden was guilty of killing Angier during his show. Towards the end of the movie, we learn that that was not really the case. So it's *not* like an old Columbo episode ("the killer from the beginning was the killer all along").

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You're wrong about Columbo. The show was about how Columbo would catch the killer, sometimes pretending to be bumbling along to trick the killer into making a critical mistake. (Dick va nDike as the photographer who kills his wife was a favorite of mine.)

I think I was the only one who figured out the twists among my friends. I think they gave away whether the machine really worked by showing the pile of hats in the beginning of the film, (but there was the possibility that Borden had Tesla set them up to trick Angier out of more money.) the 'twists' are more so on each other, but most of the audience is on for the ride too. Much better than the 'twist' in Shutter Island, which took about a minute and a half to figure out. (Still a good movie, just didn't twist me in any way. (I'm very hard to trick)). You should consider that Angier had the opportunity to create one double of himself and do Borden's trick. But he can't even stand his own self/double. (Same as the cat, right?) They gave away the 'twist' on Borden too when his wife said his hand looked as bad as the day it happened. Again, most of the audience couldn't fathom what had really happened. but, it is the same with Cutter's trick on the little girl. We find out that he crushes one little bird and presents a second/a double to pretend he saved the bird. The hint was, if the bird survived, why does he have fifty of them in his home?

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