To All Intelligent Cine-Goers 1.7

Movie:: The Prestige
Starring:: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson
Directed by:: Christopher Nolan

Review::
"Are you watching closely"
These are the first words of the movie, and, believe me, they are very rightly put.

This is one of the best creations of director Christopher Nolan (others are Batman Begins, Insomnia, Memento and Following.) He is one of the best directors Hollywood has ever produced. He not only directs the plot brilliantly, but also manages to get the best out of his acting crew and also manages to excite his audience time and again.

The movie is based in 1970-80's when people used to be amazed by the tricks of magicians, and almost took them for saints.
The plot is set such that Hugh Jackman (The Great Danton) & Christian Bale (The Professor), in their early days are involved in presenting a trick which goes terribly wrong making them best of enemies for life. These blood-thirsty magicians find nothing but their tricks to out-cast each other. Each tries to cut the others trick and make a fool out of him, in a very barbaric manner, which again drives each one to develop a new trick.
It sounds pretty funny now, but, it isn't. They go to every extent possible to get on the one-another.

Some very interesting tochan dialogs, Nolan's USP, are screened very brilliantly.
The thirst of revenge drives them to unthinkable deeds, leading to the very best of climax.

The best thing is, IF you understand the climax properly, you will tell your self, "WTF! This was just in front of me!!! How could I have missed it?”

Interesting plot is screened showing a scientist named Tesla who is the competitor of Thomas Edison (yes, the dude who invented bulb.) If we go by the movie, it seems that Edison was really not that big of a dude. But, again, history is always written by the winners, which makes it one-sided. Let’s not get into this now.

On the whole, it’s a must-watch. One can definitely put this in the Nolan collection and watch any time.

~ El Goldman