The Prestige (2006)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, David Bowie
Synopsis:
Two magicians, one a natural, the other a huckster, are locked in an internecine struggle for supremacy after an accident kills the wife of one of them.
Review:
Kaleidoscopically arranged in time and for the most part preoccupied with the theme of audience perception. The Jackman character's pursuit of a machine that will actually make something appear out of nowhere is seen as self-destructive next to supreme dedication to the craft of illusion, but that quality is itself responsible for the misery of several characters on the Bale side of the equation. The result: neither wins, though one has a poetic victory. It is a fascinating subject, and one which the director is supremely qualified to handle, using reduced light, fractured perception, and the deployment of the odd clue early on, to work his own tricks with the viewer.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, David Bowie
Synopsis:
Two magicians, one a natural, the other a huckster, are locked in an internecine struggle for supremacy after an accident kills the wife of one of them.
Review:
Kaleidoscopically arranged in time and for the most part preoccupied with the theme of audience perception. The Jackman character's pursuit of a machine that will actually make something appear out of nowhere is seen as self-destructive next to supreme dedication to the craft of illusion, but that quality is itself responsible for the misery of several characters on the Bale side of the equation. The result: neither wins, though one has a poetic victory. It is a fascinating subject, and one which the director is supremely qualified to handle, using reduced light, fractured perception, and the deployment of the odd clue early on, to work his own tricks with the viewer.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, David Bowie
Synopsis:
Two magicians, one a natural, the other a huckster, are locked in an internecine struggle for supremacy after an accident kills the wife of one of them.
Review:
Kaleidoscopically arranged in time and for the most part preoccupied with the theme of audience perception. The Jackman character's pursuit of a machine that will actually make something appear out of nowhere is seen as self-destructive next to supreme dedication to the craft of illusion, but that quality is itself responsible for the misery of several characters on the Bale side of the equation. The result: neither wins, though one has a poetic victory. It is a fascinating subject, and one which the director is supremely qualified to handle, using reduced light, fractured perception, and the deployment of the odd clue early on, to work his own tricks with the viewer.