The Pledge. The Turn. THE PRESTIGE.

Rating: 8/10 (10 June 2010)

In an era where most human perception was still inferior to the magic of the lightest human tricks, comes a montage of amazement from the blinded audience.
It's also the applause, the acceptance, the stunned audience's hunger for curiosity why these self proclaimed magicians thrive in an environment where your name is only as good as your last show.
It is for this same reason why rivalry emanates among them. They study, they search and drools for the required learning to ecstatically shout that they own that next best kept secret in town. For what? For The Pledge, The Turn and The Prestige.
The Prestige is an enigmatic film. It's smart, that you can fall for its conundrum or choose to just wait as a patient spectator. Or, you can even be smart enough to just open your eyes, as the film quotation tells us, "Are you watching closely?"
If appropriate praises are needed for cleverly making this film, then I would simply give it hands own to, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan for the FANTASTIC screenplay, the great editors of this film for expertly putting this puzzle in one piece and off course, to the person who started it all, Christopher Priest.
And for the cast, to me they are sort of pieces of puzzle that incredibly fit to fill every space in the story board, Good job.
I won't dare to give any detail from any act in this film. It's better to watch it with a sense of urgency to literally look out for the answer like every magician's audience does. After all, the same enlightenment we get from any magic does not differ from any. We learn it is always about detail.
It's safe to say, that this Nolan's masterpiece is centered about magic but is never entirely about it. The film's depth is about human "ambition". Frailty as an effect of the consequences following that bold dream and is subsequent when be fallen to an obsession. But it is also that human "will" that won't stop us chasing it. For every little inch we grasp by reaching it fascinates us, wanting more. And for what Again?
The Prestige.