Misguided, unexpected ending, this is the magic of magic

Marcelle 2022-04-19 09:01:07

It's hard to deceive a magician with ordinary tricks. That's what this movie tries to show. That is to say, the story of the whole movie revolves around the fighting between the two magicians. One of the magicians has an experienced mentor. He instructed the young magician, telling him that the leanness of magic lies in the wrong guidance, and the magic method and props are secondary. Another pair of brother magicians grasped this and devised a magic trick that puzzled the magician. The instructor saw the mechanism at a glance and pointed it out to him. But the magician was successfully misled by them to pursue higher-tech props. A lot of money wasted.
It's hard to deceive a magician with ordinary tricks. Because the magician devised a set of misguided methods, which made ordinary people feel inconsistent with what they see in daily life. The so-called unexpected ending is the cognitive dissonance of the audience at the moment, and the existing cognitive model. produce great conflict. Therefore, these magic techniques will gradually become the inherent cognitive mode of magicians. You can no longer mislead trained magicians in the usual way.
Therefore, to deceive a magician, you can only use the magician's inherent cognitive model to mislead. Convince the magician to believe a guide and then achieve the effect of a false guide. Then the ending was unexpected. Like the ending of the movie. The ending of the film is actually the director's misguided guidance for the audience. That's the magic of magic.

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Extended Reading
  • Roselyn 2021-10-20 18:58:02

    To put it bluntly, whether they are twin brothers or clones, what makes them so obsessed with the success on stage is the surprise expression on the audience's faces and thunderous applause. When we have been living in a vicious circle that needs affirmation from others, we lose our original self.

  • Madisyn 2022-03-20 09:01:06

    Never expected the ending, many details are foreshadowing the ending

The Prestige quotes

  • Robert Angier: He's a dreadful magician.

    Cutter: No, he's a wonderful magician. He's a dreadful showman.

  • Cutter: Obsession is a young man's game