Challenging the ethics we know

Gerda 2022-04-20 09:01:04

The whole film is perfectly embedded in that model philosophy, from "show" to "transportation" to "miracle". Some mundane, procedural plots flow in front of my eyes for the first two-thirds of the film. It didn't take much brainpower to understand some foreshadowings and hidden lines, so that I could almost fall asleep in the last ten minutes. After the "amazing" appeared, the fire light ignited in my brain, and the "miracle" that appeared after stealing the day. "Let me be speechless for the sophistication of thought and the depth of subject matter.
Such as the title is the theme of the film, from the original story of the film, both fantasy and reality, after the Industrial Revolution, people's enthusiasm for science and superstition for knowledge, created the monsters and annihilated humanity in Frankenstein's story; Pull and Edison's bizarre psychedelic battle period; then to one of the plots of magic strokes - Angier asked his performance to be strictly controlled in a hundred performances, like an unexpected counterattack, the stamina came fiercely, causing I was speechless after the movie, and suddenly thought of that old YY joke—the story of a woman and thirty men living on a deserted island. I'm not ashamed, the point is that these men may have uttered the one voice that Angier had been moaning inside "What happened next was disgusting."

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Extended Reading

The Prestige quotes

  • Robert Angier: Which hat is mine?

    Nikola Tesla: They are all your hat, Mr. Angier.

  • [repeated line]

    Alfred Borden: Are you watching closely?