Beyond good and evil

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2007)

Nolan's last haunting masterpiece is an impressive allegory about ambition, sacrifice, arrogance, obsession, titanic effort to go beyond natural limits and to challenge God. Nietzsche "Ubermensch" concept is embodied in the fight between these two Victorian-Age magicians, as well as the conflict between science and wizardry, instinct and rationality, respect of the rules and compulsive intention to go beyond good and evil. When you go out of the cinema, you think about the inner sense of this movie again, and again, and again... Great emotions, great plot (a sort of Greek tragedy!), great meta-reflection about perception, theories of mind, and psychological blindness: a great movie. Abracadabra!