A magic dilemma

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2008)

It's a MUST SEE movie. In fact, this movie must be watched at least twice. It elicits enticing existential questions: the kind your brains just WANTS to figure out... A bit like the first time you try to imagine where the universe might end, what it looks like there and what comes next. If you watch the movie and don't get what I mean, just try to put yourself in the place of the magician going into his machine. Now decide which one you would be...and then, what comes next? The reason I say that you must watch it at least twice is that there are a set of events during the story where it becomes apparent that you have to work out which character was actually involved. The first viewing doesn't prepare you for the need to do that. Since I was passively watching the story the first time around, I didn't notice what was actually happening but I was uncomfortably confused from time to time. It is only with repeated viewings that you move towards a better understanding. And I still feel like I need to watch it again because I haven't yet quite figured out what happened in the end with respect to possible use of the machine. The nice thing is, you can figure out a couple of different possibilities and work through their significance. It's a lot of fun.