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vseslav.botkin posted:The only thing that ever really bothered me about The Prestige is the very end, where we have that pan to the tank with Angiers in it with Caine's closing speech about how you want to be... fooled. I feel like it's set up as though we're supposed to be shocked by what we see, or that there's something missing in what we've seen that we didn't realize until now? I mean, they've just explained what's going on, and it's been obvious for a reasonably perceptive viewer ever since the new trick started. I think this part is meant to mirror the bird trick at the start, where the kid sees through the illusion that there were two birds, and they killed one for the trick. For the trick to work it's magic, you have to blind yourself to the fact that the bird dies. Similarly, at the end, they give very clear hints as to what's going on with Angier's trick. Either you don't catch on and his dead clones are the twist, or you catch on and you hope it isn't true.
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