Are you also using the same machine to create your dupes dupe? did you kill off all your previous dupes or someone did it for you?

I prefer NXJ

but that's the best part!

it's supposed to be a teleportation machine. but one of the outcome of EPR effect is it creates a copy at the new site.

in star trek's transporter machine, ur body is disintegrated and reassembled at the new site.

here, it creates a copy at the new site, but the original remains at the old site.

this is why angier said his trick requires absolute courage, because he literally DIES at the end of every trick. only his copy lives on!

don't expose la!

ok ok shhhhhhh

Maybe that's just me, at first I thought Wow, a pure magic tricks movie, but suddenly science fiction kicks in..

y u no like scifi?

yeah it felt kinda weird and it turn to a dark story

One of my all time favourite

I love sc-fi movie, but at first Prestige was giving me the feeling that it will be a pure illusion and magic tricks movie, but suddenly it changes direction, it doesn't feel good.

so u got tricked?

Guess so.. LOL

But both the actor made the movie alive, their acting skills is superb, especially Christian Bale..

The whole movie is about rivalry leading to deadly consequence. The electricity duplicate is the science fiction part. You have to realize Danton sacrifice even his life in order to outdo his rival. Remember what he said, he did not even know if the "real" him was going to die everytime he used Tesla machine to make a duplicate. Remember the machine was going to make a clone. There was two way this could work:

1. The machine teleported the original to a new destination, and left behind a clone.
2. The machine did not teleport the original to a new destination, but created a new clone in the new destination.

Since the magic trick would kill the person who was standing in the original spot, there was a 50% chance that everytime Danton used this trick, the "original" him would fell into the water tank and drown. And the clone, having the same memory of the original, would not know whether he was a new copy or the original Danton. But both the clone (or the original) would realize that he might have to kill himself in the next trick and agonized over it, and he could not stop himself because he wanted to outdo his rival.

The other rivalry portraited in the movie is the rivalry between the inventors Edison and Tesla, and that actually happened in real life.

The moral of the story is to teach you all not to be obsessed over winning so much.

Danton was obsessed to find the truth until he can't see what was in front of his eyes. That was the REAL tragedy of it all.

It was, but that was secondary in the movie. The movie is to show the extend some people will take to "defeat" their competitors, until they lose... with their lives.

Now I feel like wanna watch again!

at the end, Christian Bale aka the Professor indeed had a twin behind all these tricks which trolled Danton

my 2 cents summary

the only question i kept wondering is did the professor (christina bale) really has a twin or did he use tesla machine one time and create his twin/duplicate/clone?.