Only to the audience and planning of Angiers shooting   Can someone please tell me how he recounts his method only to the audience  It seems to me that hes explaining his method directly to Borden as he was dying  He tells Borden to look where you are and it takes courage to walk in every night not knowing whether I was going to be the prestige or the man in the box paraphrasing  Obviously he doesnt play a video to Borden showing him exactly what we the audience see but it was pretty clear to me that these clips were meant to be explanatory not only to the audience but in a sense to Borden as well  The phrasing included below makes it sound like Borden never finds out how Angier did the trick  Similarly flashbacks recount only to the audience Angiers method that each time he disappeared during his illusion he fell into a locked tank and drowned and the machine created a duplicate who teleported to the balcony and basked in the applause  Also having just watched the film again it seems to me that Cutter colludes with Borden to allow Borden in to kill Angier so that Angier can reunite with his daughter who he earlier recommends that she needs her father  Cutter leaves Lord Caldlows estate disgusted as he has stolen Bordens daughter and helped frame him for murder  I assume that he resolved to help FallonBorden to get his daughter back after finding out that Lord Caldlow was really Angier  Thoughts     The ending of the film Angier is still alvie This is the reason for Caines VO asking the audience to see it Now if you pause the DVD you will actually see an air bubble rise int he water How am I the only one who see this I will keep changing this page till people understand this Thank you  Preceding unsigned comment added by     Please review the archive links at the top of this page  We discussed this when the film was originally released       So what are you suggesting An Angier hid in a water tank held perfectly still and held his breath for a at least  good minutes For what If there is an air bubble its probably because Jackman needed to breathe   The air bubble is real I saw it twice in the theater and on DVD  I can upload a screen shot from the DVD with the air bubble if necessary  The point is other editors have argued that this doesnt mean anything however what bothers me is this the Nolans are really good at what they do  If we saw the air bubble then you can bet they saw it and if it was a mistake it would have been digitally removed  The fact that they left it in the film is very interesting and nicely parallels the end of the novel itself  On the other hand it doesnt make sense  The Angier floating in the tank is clearly dead and has no way of getting out       Plot Ending  In the plot description of this page it states that the film ends with Borden eyeing the water traps containing the dead duplicates of Angier However when I saw the film and I may be mistaken in this it seemed as if the trap shown immediately before the credits contained a living Angier This fact was further emphasized when the camera panned away from the burning theatre and to the body of Angier which had wide open eyes and appeared to be viewing the scene that had just occurred between Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale and the credits roled immediately after he came into full view only showing the body for a second It may also be that the director included this to leave the audience guessing as to whether or not the body was alive or not and whether Angier did in fact have the last laugh Either way a reference to this should be included into the Plot Summary  Preceding unsigned comment added by       Keep in mind that like most Nolan films the film is nonlinear so the plot summary synthesizes in many areas including the conclusion  This format isnt de rigueur and improvements are always welcome as long as the plot is short and sweet per WPMOSFILM  As for whether Angier has his eyes open or is alive that is pure speculatio