The Prestige

The Prestige is a 2006 film adapted from Christopher Priest's award winning 1995 novel of the same name. The film reunites director Christopher Nolan with Christian Bale and Michael Caine, both of whom worked with Nolan in Batman Begins. The Prestige also stars Hugh Jackman, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson, Piper Perabo and Andy Serkis.

Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier rise to become world-renowned stage magicians. Early in their careers, they meet and a bitter feud develops as they constantly try to out-do, and even sabotage, the other's acts. The events of the past are revealed primarily through each of the magicians' diaries.

Revenge between Rupert Angier & Alfred Borden

Nikola Tesla is walking in a chamber with electric fields. (Just wondering, did he involved in our Physics chapter in Magnetism?)

Body act as conductor of electricity, and also generates energy?

The land was under experimentation, filled with bulbs, without wires?

Comments:

This movie creates a lot of suspense, amazing and twisted ending. You really gotta put all your concentration while watching it. I would suggest watch in a group of friends which could discuss about he movie.

According to stage magic engineer Harry Cutter, (Michael Caine), great magic tricks are composed of three acts: The Pledge, where the magician shows the audience something that appears ordinary, but is probably not; The Turn, where the magician makes the ordinary act extraordinary; and The Prestige, where there are "twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance, and you see something shocking you've never seen before."

The last step of magic trick, The Prestige is the main component for the audience to start amused and wondering about the trick. Every trick is a secret, if you reveal your trick, the trick will be not valuable at all ! I was wondering, why the Thomas Edison gang suddenly popped up, and tried to destroy the invention of Tesla. Tesla's invention not only can transport people, but also can clone human (feeling a bit weird). So everytime Angier finish he's trick, he gotta killed he's clone. Every effort gotta sacrifice something. As Borden, he's got twins. That's why we can conduct 'The Transported Man' so successful. But there's a price of sacrifice, they always switched character, one of them love he's wife, the other love Oliver. He's wife, noticed the difference of love and become confused, stress, stuggling until the end she commited suicide. As Angier found a way to punish Borden for killing he's wife, he create a crime scence to put Burden to sentence of death. But because Burden had twins, one of the gotta sacrifice. As revenge continued Burden killed Angier in the end (a lot of advice, flashback happened here).