[Movie] The Prestige

Originally Posted by guyinrubbersuit

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But what about when Angier was given a demostration for Tesla's machine, and they had no idea what had happened. More misdirection or did they not know how the machine was behaving?

I really enjoyed this movie. One of, if not my favorite I have seen this year. It was well done, with some fantastic acting, good writing and good use of misdirection. I want to see it again.

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From what I gathered, Telsa and his accomplice knew what the machine would do, at least roughly, which was to create duplicates. I thought that they were expecting the duplicate to appear close by; and this was why they said that it was not an exact science, when they found out the duplicates were way outside. Just because they didn't know why the machine wasn't behaving the way they expected doesn't mean that they had never built the machine before.
It seems apparent, from when Jackman's character approaches Tesla, that Tesla knew exactly what machine was being talked about, and exactly what it was it was intended to do. It doesn't seem like coincidence at all.
With that in mind, I don't think it was obvious at all that Bale's character had a twin brother, as Jessykins said.

Also, for the person who talked about Angier having a lack of compassion for his clones, or whatever, I don't think that really was the case. I think he fully viewed it as killing himself, not other clones, which he wouldn't have to care about. But of course, he didn't mind either, since Cain's character had told him that the sailor felt "like he was going home" when he was drowning; and in addition, he was consumed with his anger and spite towards Bale's character.

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