Robert Angel and Alfred Bourdain were once good friends, the former complex and sophisticated, a natural performer who knew how to present himself perfectly to the audience on stage; the latter Contrary to him, this highly gifted and very creative magic genius is a bit out of place due to his sloppy and naive personality, let alone how to use flashy means to express his magic ideas. Such conflicting parties also laid the foundation for the later inconsistency between the two. The film does not show the friendship between the two when they were friends. Instead, it pulls the two into a fierce tit-for-tat shortly after the opening. On the one hand, this expression method is a last resort due to the limited space, and it can also make the audience immediately. into the ensuing struggle of paranoia. And the two rivals with completely different personalities ended up unanimously straying into the "cultivation" of going crazy. Not only did the two fight openly and secretly on their respective stages, and they overthrown each other, they even infiltrated their own lives into the terrifying "magic battle". Bourdain had to endure the torture of his wife on the secret of love in the heart of a "true and false" magician every day, while Angel did not hesitate to send his lover to the other party in order to explore the secret of his opponent. soldiers". However, when we finally saw the whole thing, we found that the two lost not only their own lives, but a part of their lives. "Borden" sacrificed his twin brother's life in exchange for a shot of revenge; Angel Every day, he had to suffer to kill "another self in the world" in exchange for top honors and a trip to the gallows of his opponents. And the reason why the two magicians are so madly copying a simple "conspiracy and murder" story is for the expressions on the faces of the audience. Survival is cruel, and the price of good tricks is sacrifice. The magic of turning into a bird at the beginning of the film represents everything. Behind the success of a little magic is the demise of a life. In fact, this little detail also hints at the final fate of the two in the film.
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