The prestige is magic trick on the audience

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2007)

This is not just a movie about magic. the best part is he makes the film itself like a magic trick.the screenplay is organised in a way like a magic trick.IE he keeps creating situations where each time the audience gets to suspicion & at last he pulls out the rabbit over the other end.similar to memento where we understood the 15 min memory loss like experiencing itself thanks to the order of the screenplay.similarly we end up her being the magician's audience rather than the film's audience.
i tell you. u got to watch intensely to know the way the director has carried the audience. when u do not understand the situations & not encourage your doubts you might only end your experience as partly logical & one supernatural portion of the film.
i might not have been impressed if it were a linear screenplay.like i said the non linear magic trick fitted the story like jigsaw.if u take a suspense film.u got to be a genius if at the end of the day the audience end up satisfied by the suspense itself more than the end disclosure itself. i came to a situation where i could accept anything supernatural in the plot of a perfectly logical film.now that was a fact not all would approve of.u can have a dozen way of criticizing but what matters is how uve been carried into the film & how good u feel about it even before its end & even a normal supposed to be spoiler supernatural end only make you feel not any less good.
lots of contradictions & irony in this film eg.eg.magician's life is about simple day today logical tricks while science produces the real magic.but the best part is the way he displayed the one superficial part of the film which is logically supposed to be a spoiler considering the other strong logics of the film. he built the suspense so much that at the time of revealing the mystery the audience is already into his hands & it doesn't matter how it ends & the best logical way to end the magical suspense is a real supernatural thing itself.we grow too accustomed to appreciating logic behind a magic trick that at the end the we are inclined to appreciate the supernatural.& what more once again like a magic trick the real magic of story was not in angers disclosure but of Borden's secret which we & the characters could have guessed several times but only end up stupefied by this. i was more surprised of burdens secret than angers. i appreciated a supernatural plot while i was stupefied by a logical reasoning of burdens.now that is real magic & cinematic genius.
Jonathon Nolan has his strength in screenplay.now he has chosen topics which complement this non linear screenplay. now this is a team that is genius. i tell you. u got to watch intensely to know the way the director has carried the audience because not understanding the situations & not encouraging the doubts might only end your experience as partly logical & one supernatural aspect of the film.