[Movie] The Prestige

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How could Bale have a clone? Tesla had no idea what the machine was doing until Jackman's character stumbled upon the hats and cats and that came long after Bale started his transfered man trick. It was his twin.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Spoiler:

Well, what I got from it was that he made his keyword Tesla because the notebook was a setup and he was deliberately sending him halfway around the world on a wild goose chase. After he came to the end of the writings and discovered it was a trick, he confronted the assistant and they had a back and forth to the effect, "You lead me to believe you built a machine for him," to which the assistant responded that they never said exactly that.

It's in no way definitely said either way, but thinking back, the whole movie gears clues towards Bale's character being two people as early as before the drowning accident of Jackman's wife.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Spoiler:

Also remember that there's a certain amount of ambiguity about whether or not the clone was the one transferred or if he was the one that remained in place. By the end of the movie, Jackman's character was most likely already a copy of a copy of a copy, the original long since dead.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

A warning to people now that this has recently been released on video, tread carefully in this thread. Those spoiler boxes mean spoiler, there's not so much reviews in here than there was intricate plot discussion. If you haven't seen the movie yet, don't be tempted to look!

edit: lol, "video," what is it seven years ago here

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