The Prestige (2006)

Director : Christopher Nolan.
Genere : Drama / Mystery.
Cast : Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson.
Rating : Must Watch
Magic tricks consists of three parts “The Pledge”, “The Turn” and “The Prestige”. This movie is about two rival magicians who try to become the greatest magicians. They try to sabotage each other’s “Prestige” to upstage the other. But when Borden comes up with his ultimate trick “The Transported Man”, Angiers was dumbfounded and becomes obsessed to find the secret behind the trick.

The trick is told when the trick is sold. The movie is a thrilling race between the two to expose the “Prestige” of each other’s ultimate trick. The movie explores through the world of magic and magicians. An ultimate sacrifice is necessary to perform the ultimate trick.

Christopher Nolans’s dramatic story telling itself makes Prestige more magical. A movie is much like a magic performance; both are meant to make belief. Like magic a movie can also be divided into three parts, The introduction, The cause and The climax. Magic can never be explained but to be experienced and so is the movie.