Nolan's best film by far, in fact his only truly great one
I don't know how he did it, maybe cause it was based off a book so he already had a base to start from and didn't have to write from the ground up? Or maybe he just got lucky
Nolan's best film by far, in fact his only truly great one
Huge Ackman cared a lot about this role, you can tell. A dedicated lead makes it harder to frick up.
Olivia Wenscombe.
It's my favorite as well and made me a Scarjo fan
Her sexiest role
You just watched this, didn’t you? You just watched it.
If it's so good how come no one can agree if the machine was real or not?
Not him but that's part of what makes it good.
Agreed. I don't like most of his movies, but this one is solid.
Anon you're not really looking.
Isn't that exactly what makes it good? Same reason Blair Witch Project is so good. Leave multiple interpretations plausible and let the viewer think about it for days, or years afterward. The argument also perfectly reflects the themes of the movie - magic and what is real vs what is not. It is not apparent to the audience of the show, and it is also not apparent to us as viewers.
Nah it's hack shit just like the top at the end of Inception.
What about the lower end?
Bruh... I mean the top was a bit on the nose, but...really? You don't like that ending thematically? I think I see the problem. Themes just aren't as much of a driving force in what makes you like a movie.
You probably liked Dunkirk more than his other movies. I thought it was boring nonsense.
Are you high? The final shot made it pretty damn clear the machine was real with the tanks full of duplicate Angiers.
Which perfectly mirrors the shot of the many duplicated hats, which is later shown to be a false memory? The movie is literally called the prestige for frick sake.
So how did he do the trick then?
Gerald :^)
>later shown to be a false memory
When?
in the jail
when he reads his diary to the end
The diary was an anti-Borden psyop but like all good lies it was constructed from bits of truth. I don’t think the duplicated hats were a false memory.
>I don’t think the duplicated hats were a false memory
Yeah sure
he just told the secret of his life's trick to his literal enemy
Apparently so, knowing it would give him no satisfaction before his imminent death and that he wouldn’t believe it anyway. Multilevel mindfreak
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There's never an Inception thread but I'll use this Nolan film thread to ask a question
How could time slowing down compound like it did. Okay so your brain works faster when you're sleeping. But even if youre 4 levels in, it's still all in your head and your brain can't work 1000x faster
Also in one of the dreams they use a sedative to make the guy fall asleep. How the frick can a sedative work in a dream?
It's magic; you have to suspend your disbelief. The whole premise is dumb if you think about it that hard. Can't speak for others, but I've never had a dream coherent enough for the movie to work the way it did. The setting is too normal, as are the people and the world's physics.
Just accept the video game logic, and apply it. It only becomes a problem when it breaks it's own rules, not real-world ones.
>Also in one of the dreams they use a sedative to make the guy fall asleep. How the frick can a sedative work in a dream?
I mean, the movie is about entering people's dreams and influencing them...and you don't think they convinced the dreaming guy that he got a sedative? It's all about perception. Like, the whole movie is about that.
>don't think they convinced the dreaming guy that he got a sedative
See that's the thing. They put a bag over his head then give him the sedative without even telling him, and he wouldn't have been able to see it either. So it's not a case of the mind making it real. It had to be a biological explanation
IRL, you barely remember dreams at all. Hardly at all. You can have an extremely vivid dream, a nightmare, and by the time you've woken up and tried to recall you've forgotten all but one detail.
Who's to say your mind doesn't work 1000x speed 4 dream levels down? Not you, I assure you.
basipally: you can't prove it doesn't, per your own experience so shut up.
The movie's about nested lucid dreams, I happened to go 3 levels deep, meaning you recognise you're in a dream, wake up but still a dream etc.
Very unsettling but fascinating.
The idea of the different speeds is rendered cinematically by slow mo etc, but the meaning should be the places and situations we dream seems familiar, meaning our brain works hard and fast to recreate something that doesn't exist but it's still believable to us, the deeper the levels the faster / harder the work, that's my assumption.
In the end, like for the op the main theme is what's real and what's not and how can we tell with certainty.
In memento the protagonist use tattoos.
It's one of the better "everyone is an butthole" movies for sure.
The clone shit is awful. "It was bad on purpose" is not a good excuse
Overrated trash. Can always tell a pleb by those who revere The Prestige.
>felt the movie had some connection to me and the ac
>not like I was hearing coded messages just interpreting the plot, lives of the actors involved (stuff like Christian Bale= bale on Christ) and other stuff.
>when Borden says "are you watching closely?" NOPE the frick out
>scared to watch the end
I cannot keep living like this bros! Shit like this happens all the time in my mind. I don't hallucinate but I think I definitely have schizophrenia (otherwise the movie really is cursed). What do I do?
Even now I feel Borden is operating like an egregore of sorts, that he's come out of the movie and attached himself to me.
What is the ac?
Bad guy at the end of the Bible
This
This is the only real Nolan movie that made me actually sit through and care for what is happening innit
I rooted for Jackman's character the whole movie.
Even when he started killing his own clones?
Did they use a blue filter in this movie's remaster? When I saw it in theatres I don't remember it being this blue
The best trick he ever pulled was making me not realize he was the person that made this movie.
Honestly Nolan was kind of moronic to show Angier drowning at the beginning of the film. I knew exactly what was going on as soon as the hats and cats were shown. They should have just shown the trial so it was ambiguous whether there actually was a death-"faking" trick in the first place. Then the twist about angier killing his clones wouldn't be so obvious. That's just how I feel tbh.
The Borden twist is better
https://www.thisisbarry.com/movie/the-prestige-alternate-theory-the-machine-didnt-work/
>we developed a copier that can make anything for almost free, food, technology, even people perfectly copied for just some electricity
>use it for magic shows
bravo notalentlon
see
>the only people who know about it are a spooky scientist who thinks it comes at too high a cost, his loyal assistant, a revenge-obsessed rich dude who doesn’t care about the bigger picture, a convicted murderer who is about to die and might not believe it anyway, and his brother who can’t say anything if he wants to see his kid again