Film Analysis: The Prestige

The Prestige
The Prestige is a movie about magicians that turn into enemies when a magician’s wife dies in an accident on stage. Angier’s wife dies when she is doing a trick with him and another magician Borden. Borden is possibly the one that caused her death depending on the kind of knot he tied for the trick. Throughout the movie we see several different parts of what we have seen or read in the recent chapters. Anywhere from love and attraction to aggression to the law; this movie seemed to have it all. Angier loved his wife so very much; she was important to him. He became very angry toward Borden as he deemed it his fault his wife was killed. His anger was fueled when he later found out that Borden had gotten married and had a child.

There was many storylines within this movie but it was easy to see that Angier’s anger from the death of his wife fueled his need to be aggressive and harm Borden. That that hatred and anger consumed him to the point that he could not see that he could have had if only he forgave Borden and moved on with his life. That the love that Borden had with Sarah was all so real but with him living only half a life with his twin sharing in the spotlight and pretending to be him he could never give Sarah what she truly needed and he failed her. That the love that Borden’s twin had for Olivia was not infidelity but a relationship that if he was not living half a life could have been a wonderful relationship for him. That if the law had been more defined and regulated in the early 19th century with more abilities to find evidence that could exonerate “Borden” that he would not have been found guilty and hung. At the end of the movie you hear a voiceover saying “Now you are looking for the secret. But you won’t find it because, you’re not really looking.” Perhaps there is more than meets the eye when it come to magicians and their tricks; as well as life and