What are the 3 components of the movie's Magic Trick
Just watched this movie for the first time in about 10 years, and wow it holds up.
While there is still some debate here of magical vs realistic, the fact that it can still incite such passion is a testament to the filmmaking.
What is clear by the narration is that Nolan wants you to think of the movie in terms of the three aspects of a magic trick: The Pledge, the Turn, and The Prestige.
So I ask you, in clear cut terms, what are the three aspects of the film? I have some ideas, but would love to hear what everyone thinks.
What are:
The Pledge: Two magicians become rivals after a botched magic trick kills one of their wives. They try over years to one-up each other?
The Turn: The two magicians are able to dissapear and re-appear without explanation?
Where as a good turn almost always amazes an audience, the magicians themselves cannot understand the explanation for each other's turns. (Except for Cutter, who explains Borden's secret at the beginning of the film, but Angier looks for something deeper....hm sounds familiar as I type this)
The Prestige: Borden is "Brought back" from death when his secret is revealed to Angier, that he has a twin brother. Angier...well, there did seem to be something going on with that last scene in the tank, didn't there?
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.
But Mr. Nolan I do not want to be fooled, I want to know!! Are we the subjects of a decade long magic trick? Perhaps not is all as it seems after all.