How could you do for your true love?

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2007)

Suppose you are young boys, a male and a female; then, your families are divided and you don't meet for several years... Each one has his own life: girl is coming to become the bride of the Austrian Crown Prince, boy is a successful illusionist. So, it happens that the two meet them to the show, on the stage, and they immediately understand that nothing is changed since they were young... How could you do for your true love? Both them will try to answer to this question, and with shrewdness and without fear, they secretly start to meet them. But soon they will realize that it's not so easy to hide their meetings to the Crown Prince, and something will occur... A very intelligent movie, from the begin to the end; different, from my point of view, from "The prestige", which tells about power and corruption and perversion of who this power has got: in "The illusionist", magic is not used like a cunning to become rich or powerful, to have success or glory: it's only an outline to resist to the life adversities. As Northon says, "I pray you to not forget it's only an illusion": he only wants to not fear love, for not fearing life!