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Or he might just have been inspired by the old Chinese guy to make a double for himself, and live as the same person. Also, why would he send Angier halfway around the world to Tesla, only to find out that he acutally had a way to create doubles for himself? The key to his notebook could've just as easily been Lima, and he could've sent him to Peru or some other random ass place to find nothing and throw him off. I don't think that sending him to Tesla (and the fact that Tesla didn't even have to ask specifically why he was there) and then Tesla happening to actually be able to create a cloning machine was a lucky coincidence. The only clue that blatently references the idea that it was his brother was when Borden does the trick where he makes the bird disappear and the little kid starts crying. He makes a bird re-appear, but the kid still cries, "but where's his brother?"
Either way, it's got me excited to watch it again and try to break it down a little further.
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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?
Also, did anyone notice how in the advertisements for the Prestige they presented Bale's character as the bad guy, while Jackman's was the good guy? This movie was set up on misdirection from the beginning.
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.
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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What about when Tesla's assistant made a comment after they discovered all those duplicated hats in the surrounding area, stating that they didn't bother to check the hat since it didn't move. That led me to believe that Tesla knew Angier wanted a teleportation device, but it turned out to be a duplication machine. After all it's not an exact science.
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