love Sarah, apologized for his brother's mistakes at Angier's wife's funeral; once persuaded Freddie not to mess with Angier.
Tired of swapping lives at 1:28:00, telling Olivia don't call him Freddie.
He took the blame for Freddie and was interrupted by Angier while performing magic tricks.
Freddy: More obsessed with magic, more rebellious, and more advocating freedom (Angier reading diary evaluation);
love Olivia, because he insisted on the way he decided to tie knots, indirectly killed Angier's wife; used to write a diary and left a diary for Angier; He was charged with making a living and was hanged for being curious about Angier's magic.
In order to be consistent in magic, after Alfred cut off his finger, he also cut off his own finger. (around 33'). The many conflicts with Sarah showed that he was tired of exchanging lives.
But there are still two things that are not very clear:
Freddy's diary does not admit what kind of knot is tied, but note that half of the diary said that he thought it was a normal knot, and the other half thought it was a double knot. . I understand that he wants to excuse himself (in fact, it's not his fault, after all, Angier's wife is confident that she can solve it), not that he really doesn't know like Alfred;
Freddy was in prison, and he missed Sarah. Daughter, on the contrary, Alfred, Sarah's lover, doesn't seem to care much about her daughter being sent to child labor. Freddy didn't seem too happy when the little girl said she named her doll Sarah (47'40''). Is that daughter Freddy's? I still tend to think that the twins see the girl as their own though (Freddy didn't have a baby with Olivia anyway)
After only watching it for the first time, all I saw was the contradiction and struggle between Gauden and Angier. The second pass also sees feuding and friction between the twin brothers' different personalities; and the struggle to keep an identity a secret.
Nolan's films really can never see all the meanings he wants to express in one go.
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