Alfred says he doesn't know. He really doesn't! He's not the one who tied it. This tells us so much about the two brothers. Remember Alfred says "I've asked myself that question a thousand times. But he means it very literally. Borden has asked himself that a thousand times; or rather, Alfred has asked Freddie a thousand times. And the only way Alfred could "not know", is if Freddie insists he tied the simple slip knot, and Alfred doesn't believe him. But he doesn't.
So Alfred thinks Freddie is a liar. Would lie even to Alfred. That's pretty remarkable. That leads to another idea: at least part of the diary is genuine. Angier reads it and observes Borden's "divided mind": that suggests both men taking turns writing in the diary.
Creating a diary from scratch would take a lot of work: easier to use existing entries. By the way, if part of the diary is genuine, then Borden is exposing his "divided mind" to Angier, betting that Angier won't understand the secret. When Borden ties the knot on Juiia the night she drowns, it's Freddie performing. He shares that significant glance with Julua, which tells us that he ties the Langford Double. And she wasn't able to untie it, as Michael Caine had predicted.
When Angier goes to Borden's magic show. Alfred is performing that night. Angier holds the gun on him: he still doesn't know, doesn't have any better answer for Angier. So Angier shoots him. This is kind of a cruel irony: the one who didn't do it is shot as punishment. But that means Freddie has to bite down on the stick and take the maiming in cold blood it's Freddie whose fingers are "still bleeding". Nazgul's answer here about who's who is right on the money, as I see it, though I differ with him in that I think the twins discussed it a lot.
They fought about it. When Alfred tells us he's "asked himself" a thousand times which knot he tied, those discussions wouldn't have been any less heated. Nazgul also observes that Freddie is less mature than Alfred, and I think that's important. Freddie ties the Langford; Alfred gets shot in consequence. Freddie starts the affair with Scarlett; Alfred loses his wife in consequence. So anyway: that's it. The smart one "Freddie" tied the knot; the nice one "Alfred" faced the questions.
Offscreen they had many an argument about it, going over the events again and again. Freddie always insisted he tied the right knot, the simple slip.
Alfred didn't believe him. As if it's more important that Alfred loses someone than it is that Sarah dies. That's not my view, I'm just going for the parallel sentence construction here, for this point about Freddie compared with Alfred.
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Once Julia Piper Perabo dies, the men are torn apart and go their own separate ways. From there, the film chronicles each magician beginning his career and moving on with the next phase of his life.
Borden meets and falls in love with a woman named Sarah Rebecca Hall , and they have a little girl named Jess Samantha Mahurin. He also develops a wildly successful trick called The Transported Man in contrast with Angier, who now lives in the shadow of Borden's success. Offstage, Angier is consumed by his obsession with learning the secret to Borden's trick, laying the foundation for The Prestige 's macabre finale to unfold. Years pass, and Angier eventually perfects The Transported Man, with Borden arriving at one of his shows to witness it.
He sneaks backstage and appears to witness Angier die performing the trick, mirroring the sequence shown at the beginning of the film, before it's assumed that Borden is responsible and he is arrested for Angier's apparent murder. Once The Prestige timeline catches up to Borden in jail, the film moves in chronological order as the secret to both men's tricks are eventually revealed. The film ends with Cutter describing the fateful Transported Man magic trick to a little girl, who audiences now know to be Borden's daughter Jess.
Borden and Angier both master a trick called The Transported Man, in which the magician appears to travel between two wardrobes on opposite ends of the stage, almost instantly. The film's final act reveals each man's outlandish take on the trick, with Borden mastering The Transported Man first with a sleight-of-hand strategy. The ending of the film reveals that the identity of Borden is actually assumed by twin brothers.
On stage, one brother is located in each wardrobe. They take the deception so seriously that, when one brother loses a couple of fingers from a gunshot wound, the other cuts off his fingers to match. In essence, there is nothing flashy about Borden's approach here — the trick is grounded and straight to the point, backed up by the Borden twins' painstaking approach to detail.
On the other hand, Angier's mission to master The Transported Man takes him stateside to meet the famed inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla.
He believes that Tesla built a transportation machine for Borden - a belief that quickly turns out to be false - but Tesla still manages to build a transportation machine for Angier. This machine duplicates any object or living being placed inside and drops the copy a short distance away, meaning each time the trick is performed, Angier is cloned. This means the original Angier falls through a trap door into a water tank and drowns each time the trick is performed, with the new duplicate appearing somewhere in the theater to delight Angier's audiences.
Another possibility is that this is a clue that this machine did not duplicate at all, but was just a prop that Tesla sold as a con. One other explanation is that the process of creating such a machine was so unpredictable that he would be simply unsure whether he could create another. The duplication aspect was a glitch rather than being part of the design. The one duplication machine that he had ultimately did not belong to him. Borden, as he explains at the end of the film, is a natural-born twin.
Other than his word, there are several bits of evidence for this. First, Borden is seen to bilocate when he is a struggling magician working in basements. At that point, he never could have paid for the duplication machine. Secondly, when Tesla creates the machine, he has no idea how it works exactly, something which he would not be if he had created one previously. Furthermore, when confronted by Angier, Alley confirms that Tesla never made the machine for another magician before.
Most importantly, when the Bordens see Angier's final show they have no clue how he does his trick and are completely shocked when he shows up alive after he drowned.
If they had been duplicates then they would have immediately known, or at least suspected, that Angier was using a duplication machine, especially since they were the ones who sent Angier to Tesla. Another way to tell that the Bordens are natural twins is that they have distinctive personalities. One of them, the Borden hanged by the end of the film, is very rash and hot-headed.
The one who lives and is reunited with his daughter is much more reserved, honest, and is willing to accept defeat to end the feud. One alternative theory is that Borden at some point learns about the existence of Tesla's machine and creates a duplicate of his own, which he then uses to do "The Transported Man" trick and with whom he shares the "Bernard Fallon" persona.
The surprising answer is yes. Many of the things presented within the film can be viewed as ambiguous, even though most do not see it as the intent of the filmmakers. In interviews, it has been suggested that the movie is meant to be ambiguous. There is an article here which supports the premise of the idea of alternate interpretations: As he wrote, Jonathan Nolan never shied away from letting the audience draw their own conclusions about all that is going on in the raging battle between Angier and Borden.
I love contentious stuff, he admits. Chris and I still argue about aspects of Memento and we've had arguments about The Prestige as well. I think if you get to the point where people are sitting around a table arguing about what your movie means, then you've done your job as a writer. Some of the more popular theories involve whether or not the machine actually duplicates since there is nothing within the film that requires a working duplicator; everything can be explained presuming the machine is simply a prop.
Thus there are some who believe that Nolan intended the twist to be that the machine is a prop. Others believe that the entire film is meant to be a debate and changes interpretation on how you see the film, like a perception illusion. It's really impossible to know. The twins would switch places frequently every time they did the trick therefore both of them had sex with Sarah. In the end, it doesn't really matter who is the girl's biological father.
The twins shared the life of Alfred Borden and both of them acted as the girl's father when they were in the role of Alfred Borden. It is interesting to note that they also acted affectionately towards Jess when they were in the role of Fallon, behavior which she accepted as if it came from the father she knew.
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Who or what is the "Prestige"? Was Nikola Tesla a real person? What is the name of the song during the end credits? Who played Root? What were the words mumbled by Root while rehearsing onstage? The FAQ items below may give away important plot points. Why did Cutter tell Angier the truth about drowning? Why does Cutter want to buy the machine? What is the connection between Angier and Lord Caldlow?
What were Borden's last words? What did Cutter mean when he told the judge that the machine is real and has no trick? Why did Borden send Angier to Tesla? What did he mean by "Tesla is the key to my diary but not my trick"? Why did Angier only perform shows? When Borden shows up at the show, how does Angier know not to appear in the balcony? Why didn't Angier just use one duplicate? Why keep killing them? What is the twist at the end of the film? Why did Cutter betray Angier in the end?
How closely does the film follow the novel? I'm pretty sure I have the answers to all of Nolan's riddles. Read on! Obviously, if you have made it this far, you know that Alfred Borden Christian Bale had a twin brother, and the two siblings took turns playing both Borden and his manservant, Fallon.
Bale, the actor, plays both characters throughout The Prestige , and the siblings go to incredible lengths to hide the identity of the twin so as to protect the integrity of their stage trick. This means that the one brother, the one who loved Olivia Scarlett Johansson , is the one who is behind bars for Angier's "murder.
Angier, meanwhile, followed a red herring left by Borden that sends the struggling magician to Colorado, and the workshop of unconventional inventor Nikola Tesla David Bowie. In a nutshell, Angier believes that Tesla built a machine for Borden, and he demands that the inventor replicate it.
Tesla finally relents, and creates a machine that allows Angier to clone himself. Finally, Angier can pull off his magic trick. Each night, he clones himself on stage by stepping into Tesla's machine. The "original" Angier drops into a tank of water waiting below the stage.
Meanwhile, the "clone" emerges in the balcony seconds after, completing the trick. We see Angier's blind assistants taking tanks of Angier "clones" out of the theater each night and dumping them in a deserted theater, where Angier and Borden will have their final encounter.
Angier, as you see, survives his final act. He drops a "clone" in the tank, allows Borden to be captured at the scene of the crime, knows that his rival will be charged with murder, and then chooses to disappear. Earlier in the film, Angier reveals that his family is wealthy, and that they are embarrassed by his pursuit of magic.
So at the end of the film, we see "Angier" assuming the role of the wealthy Lord Caldlow -- who actually is the last created Angier clone. This final deception is revealed to Angier's longtime associate, Cutter Michael Caine.
Cutter, upset by the betrayal, tips off Borden -- who is able to reunite with his daughter. Why is Borden victorious?
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