Akbar The Prestige November 24th, 2006
For the first 20 minutes, I thought it is a boring melancholic drama. Then…. it got interesting. The story is about two men rivalry for getting famous position in magic show world. The first one is Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman). He has a wife, who is dead because of accidental drowning because his wife can not untie the tie on her hand in magic show. The second one is Alfred Borden (Christian Bale), who tied Robert Angier’s wife. Robert blamed Alfred for his wife death. After that, they try to beat each other with very very bad way. Alfred had a show. He can catch the bullet from gun. Robert is in disguise as ordinary audience. So he become volunteer to shoot the gun to Alfred. But Robert knew the trick so he put something into the gun which neutralize the magic of Alfred. The Alfred assistant push Robert so the ‘thing’ that Robert put into the gun did not kill Alfred but instead make his finger broke. Then Alfred revenge on Robert show.
The rivalry got hotter after that. Both men has dedication, ambition and commitment for magic show world even it mean to sacrifice finger (in Borden case). Robert killed ‘him self’ every time in his show. They both crazy, I think. But the movie is really good. I just can’t imagine the ending would be like that.