My favourite movie is ”Presistige”.The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan, written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Christopher Priest. It follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century. Obsessed with creating the best stage illusion, they engage in competitive one-upmanship, with fatal results. In 1890s London, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden work as shills for a magician under the mentorship of John Cutter, an engineer who designs stage magic. During a water tank trick, Angier’s wife Julia fails to escape and drowns. Angier, devastated, blames Borden for using a riskier knot, causing her death. When Angier asks Borden which knot he used, Borden claims not to know. The two become bitter enemies and rivals. For me the best personage is Alfred Borden, also for me he is smartest personage of course after Nicola Tesla.
Movie message in my opinion `
Nolan tones down his time plays and focuses on the timing instead. The chronology is still intertwined, but with this film, the storytelling is about having the perfect balance between a story of revenge, and the means to achieve it.
The cast
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