This block will stay here, I am going to leave this post here and then change out the movie plot details below. This page will get outdated as far as posts go, but will have a new movie each week (or at least I am going to try and do one a week). You can stream older movies on places like Fandago but they don’t have all the titles and some are really hard to find. You could go to the library and get the DVD and watch these older movies but then you run the risk of the copy being scratched and well not working that’s what happens when you lend things out to anybody. So yeah this change, I may update the date on the post so that you will be able to see when I have a new movie to watch.

The Prestige

In 1890s London, aspiring magicians Robert Angier and Alfred Borden work as assistants to the magician Milton under the mentorship of ingénieur John Cutter. Angier’s wife, Julia, is Milton’s onstage assistant. During a water tank trick, Julia drowns after Borden ties a potentially dangerous knot, which he later claims not to remember. Angier blames him, and the two become bitter rivals.

Both men pursue separate careers in magic. Borden, a gifted inventor of illusions, marries a woman named Sarah and hires an enigmatic assistant, Fallon. Angier, whose strength lies in showmanship, continues working with Cutter and takes on a new assistant, Olivia. The feud escalates as they sabotage each other’s acts—Borden loses two fingers in one of Angier’s traps, while Angier’s act is ruined in retaliation.

Borden soon debuts a remarkable illusion, The Transported Man, in which he appears to teleport across the stage. Angier becomes obsessed with discovering his rival’s secret and, with Cutter’s help, recreates the act using a double named Root. Though his version is successful, Angier resents remaining hidden beneath the stage while Root takes the applause. Desperate to outdo Borden, he sends Olivia to spy on him, but she falls in love with Borden and defects.

After stealing Borden’s coded diary, Angier learns that the key word “TESLA” supposedly reveals his rival’s method. Seeking answers, Angier travels to Colorado Springs to meet inventor Nikola Tesla, locked in a rivalry of his own with Thomas Edison. Believing Tesla built a teleportation device for Borden, Angier commissions him to make one. Tesla eventually delivers a working machine but warns that it will bring only misery. When used, the device creates a duplicate of its subject while leaving the original intact.

Back in London, Angier uses the machine in a new illusion, The Real Transported Man, which earns him great acclaim. Meanwhile, Borden’s marriage collapses as Sarah grows suspicious of his secretive nature and commits suicide. Determined to uncover Angier’s method, Borden sneaks backstage during a performance and witnesses Angier fall into a water tank and drown. He is framed for murder, convicted, and sentenced to death.

While awaiting execution, Borden is approached by a solicitor for a wealthy Lord Caldlow, who offers to care for Borden’s daughter Jess in exchange for the secret behind The Transported Man. When Caldlow visits the prison, Borden is horrified to discover that he is Angier, who faked his death and resumed his aristocratic identity. Angier tears up Borden’s note revealing his secret, leaving him to hang.

Later, Cutter realizes Angier’s deception and helps dispose of Tesla’s machine. That night, a disguised visitor shoots Angier, revealing himself as Borden. The dying Angier learns the truth: “Borden” was two twin brothers sharing one identity and alternating lives. One twin loved Sarah, the other Olivia; one lost two fingers, and the other was executed. Together they performed The Transported Man by switching places undetected.

Angier confesses that each time he used Tesla’s machine, it created a clone—one of whom drowned beneath the stage each night. As he dies, fire consumes the theater, revealing rows of water tanks holding the bodies of his duplicates. Borden returns to reclaim his daughter, as Cutter narrates that the final act of any magic trick—the “prestige”—is the return of what was thought lost.

Author: admin

Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.