Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary, a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".
This film had me from those words, and those words alone. I knew, without knowing who the director was before this film popped up in 2006 I was in for mind bending and fundemantal treat from start to finish and thats what I got. The story, Two magicians, ambitious, brilliantly giften with their talent but with one curse, the curse of obsession, jelousy and envy for ones self
To put it simply, I am quite in love with this film, there is something about magic I have always loved, adored and at the same time envy such a talent. This film, brings magic to life but to a more serious and fundermental scale, mixing science with magic with great plots and twist which to me leaves the entire film as one great magic trick.
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