The Prestige

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frnds

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I watched the prestige last night, and while I enjoyed it, I feel a bit left in the dark as to what exactly happened...

Did Borden duplicate himself or did he have a twin brother... why did he send Angiers out to Colorado... why did Telsa build him that machine if Borden never got one... erm.... anybody?
 
I don't know their names as i've only watched it once but Christain Bale actually had a twin.
 
Alfred had a real twin. They lived as one person. Robert though had a machine that was capable of making duplicate's of himself. Also transporting the orginal to a certain distace. I think he went to Colorado to find out how Borden was capable of performing such a trick. Basically walking in his footstep's via his diary.
 
Yeah Borden had a twin and performed his transported man trick that way - and apparently they lived their life as one person and took turns in the role. Don't think it was made clear whether both twins got to bang the missus Sarah though.

So far so just about plausible...but then the other dude actually gets David Bowie to make a real machine that clones people out of electricity and stuff - and the whole thing seemed to get a little far-fetched around this point.

Still, entertaining hokum though.
 
my mate gave me a new theory to the film. i thought i had the film figured out.

if the machine teleports the copy some distance away each time - like the hats/cats - did Hugh Jackman kill himself each time? i always thought it was the clone that died, via drowning - but if the machine transports the copy some distance away - was Hugh Jackamn a new clone everynight. My mate brought that up . my orginal understanding of the film was - the orginal is transported i.e. - the real Hugh Jackman is teleported to the other side of the auditorium, whilst the unsuspected clone is left to drown. but that wont explain the hats/cats.........unless the hats/cats is copied each time, thus producing a new clone everytime - and the "original" is kept in the room. whilst a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy is thrown over the hill.
it makes sense in my head.
but my mate did kind of get me thinking of it again.
 
He says in the film that it took corage walking into that box not knowing whether he'd be the one to drown or take the bow. So i guess it was a random thing, some nights he drowns some nights he lives.
 
The Prestige is a real win-win situation. The film is very good, but is also different to the book which is excellent. The ending is explained better in the book.
 
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