Film The Prestige - 2340 Words

The Prestige – Perception and Identity Introduction The Prestige is a 2006 film directed by Christopher Nolan. The background is set in London in the late 19th century. Rupert Angier (played by Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (played by Christian Bale) originally are the shills of a magician. Angier’s wife is drowned in a show and he blames Borden for that. Since then they are rivals and start their own careers as magicians. Angier becomes ‘The Great Danton’ while Borden becomes ‘The Professor’. They try to sabotage each other’s show. Borden loses two fingers in a bullet catch trick while Angier loses some reputation in bird cage trick. Later Borden starts to perform a new trick called ‘The Transported Man’. Angier is impressed and†¦show more content†¦It is our intellect but not senses to judge that he is a man. It may be the same in the magic tricks. What a magician does is not deceiving our senses, but our ability to judge and reason. What we see or what we hear in the magic trick are no doubt the truth, just like a piece of solid wax and a piece of melted wax, we can sense them correctly but we cannot judge that they are the same. What we really feel wonderful about is that we cannot find out the reason or relationship between the two pieces of wax or to explain the magic trick. That is why the prestige is the most important part of a trick, as mentioned in the movie. Taking Borden’s ‘The Transported Man’ as an example. In his trick, when he steps inside the door at one side of the stage, he can immediately come out from another door at the other side of the stage. In th is case, what the audiences see is Borden stepping in a door and he stepping out from another door, as compared to a piece of solid wax and a piece of melted wax, they are both the truth. He accomplishes this by using a double, who is his look-alike twin brother. It is a very simple idea. But still, why people think that he is really transported? 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