The Prestige

After watching Inception, I was really in mood to watch another Christopher Nolan-classic, so I watched this one, again. This movie is simply fantastic and amazing, and you’ll notice more of its amazingness if you watch it second time.

Rating: 5 of 6

Inception

Interesting, fascinating and complicated movie from the director of The Dark Knight, The Prestige and Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan). This movie has received good critics almost all over with good reasons, and therefore I had huge expectations before watching it. As mentioned, the movie is fascinating and complicated with good execution and great visuals, and it’s the complication which has reduced the rating of it. Not everything is understandable when you watch it for the first time, but it can happen that you’ll understand more when you watch it second time and then also improve its rating.

The story deals “in a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job till date”.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

The Prestige

Christopher Nolan has given us several remarkable movies, (i.e. Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight), and this movie is also simply amazing. As he said in the Making of the Prestige-material, he has made this movie to show how storytelling techniques can help to give the public a wonderful experience. The screenplay in this movie is structured so well, and you get the right piece of information at the right time in order to give you a magical experience. Ironically, the story deals around magicians and how their performances were/are structured to give the public an exciting experience. Such a performance consists of following three parts;

The pledge
The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't.

The turn
The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"."

The prestige
So what’s The Prestige? The Prestige is the climax to every magic trick - traditionally the re-appearrance of the magician after he had dissapeared.

The movie is also structured just like such a great magical trick. First you’ll see what happens in the movie and get indicative ending. But that wasn’t the ending anyway, and you’ll experience the prestige to get the overwhelming experience.

The movie is simply a piece of art work.

Rating: 5 of 6

The Illusionist

When I saw ”The Prestige”, various people compared it to ”The Illusionist”, primary because they have similar topic and came almost at the same time. They even said that “The Illusionist” was better than “The Prestige”, which I don’t agree with. The Illusionist lacks some of the thriller atmosphere and isn’t as exciting as The Prestige.

Rating: 4 of 6

The Prestige

The director of Memento and Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, gives a really good movie. It is about magic and tricks, which most of us as children were really fascinated of so it was cool to look into that world set in 1895-1905. In addition, Nolan proves his story telling capabilities again after the master piece, Memento. The switch between flashback and the real time functions good, and the end were remarkable. And of course, how could I forget to mention that Scarlett Johansson was in this movie, so that in itself is a reason to watch this movie. :)

Rating: 5 of 6