Well, if any of you have not seen the new movie called The Prestige you really aught to. We got it out and watched it last Sunday. It is a movie that makes you think about what it is trying to say. I was a bit sceptical about its premise (I had gathered what I THOUGHT the premise was from hearing about it from people and reading about it online.) I thought it was simply about two magicians in Victorian England fighting for who was the best. But while that is there, there is SO many more themes and truths conveyed.
You never guess the ending until it is sprung on you (at least I didn't) and it leaves you with things to talk about. Like convincing Daddy that it WAS a believable plot because while some of the things would not have worked in the real world "that is the reason for fantasy." As I said to him "In all good fantasy you are asked to make one big assumption. For WOM to work you have to make the assumption that in Victorian London people really could walk around throwing spells at each other. In The Prestige, the assumption that you are asked to make is that the machine can actually work."
It doesn't happen often that a movie sparks loads of conversation, I think it happened last with The New World. Which was also good. I am looking forward to watching The Prestige again with Mom and ironing out some of the kinks in my remembrances of it.
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