only to the audience and planning of angier's shooting can someone please tell me how he recounts his method only to the audience it seems to me that he's 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 doesn't 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 angier's 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 re unite with his daughter who he earlier recommends that she needs her father cutter leaves lord caldlow's estate disgusted as he has stolen borden's daughter and helped frame him for murder i assume that he resolved to help fallon borden 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 v o 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 talk 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 it's 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 doesn't mean anything however what bothers me is this the nolan's 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 doesn't make sense the angier floating in the tank is clearly dead and has no way of getting out talk 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 talk contribs keep in mind that like most nolan films the film is non linear so the plot summary synthesizes in many areas including the conclusion this format isn't de rigueur and improvements are always welcome as long as the plot is short and sweet per wp mosfilm as for whether angier has his eyes open or is alive that is pure speculatio