It was awesome to watch such a great Christopher Nolan film that had previously escaped our radar! And it is no surprise that a movie about a war between magicians made for some magical moments!

Out of everyone I’ve seen react to this movie, you guys were closet to figuring out the truth. While the film has lots of foreshadowing throughout, the way it’s structured makes it difficult for lots of people to figure out. But you guys are one of the smartest reactors out there. Always a great watch.

The Prestige is a masterpiece. The way it effortlessly straddles genres has impressed me from the first time I saw it.

Bale is not guilty. His twin was the one that's on the stage when Hugh's wife died, that's why Bale genuinely doesn't know what knot was tied because his twin did it.

The film is structured like the process of a magic trick. Act 1 ends with the wife drowning or the pledge, Act 2 ends with Angier stepping into the machine for the first time ("and here at the turn, I must leave you"). The ending of Act 3 is the reveal of Borden to Angier, or the prestige. The Borden twins actually have distinct personalities. The first of them (who loved Scarlett Johansson) is obsessed with performing magic tricks and is loud, confrontational, and quick to anger. He's the one who tied the double knot and killed Angier's wife in the process. He's also the one who got his fingers shot off by Angier and was ultimately jailed and hanged at the end. The second twin (who loved Sarah) is much more quiet, measured, and approachable. His talent is he's really good at deciphering how other magicians perform their tricks. Chronologically, we first see him when he and Angier go to figure out how the fish bowl trick is done. He is also the one who shows up at the funeral to pay his respects and says he doesn't know which knot was tied (he really didn't know and was telling the truth!). Tesla did build a machine for Borden when he and Angier's rivalry over the transported man trick started heating up, but it was just glorified set dressing, a machine that gave off electricity overhead. The trick was still performed by the twins as usual, there were no clones involved. Angier still believed Borden was just one man and that Tesla really had built Borden a teleporting machine. Angier asked Tesla to build one that could do the same thing, but better. Since Tesla was staring his last financial resource in the face he agreed to do it. Tesla did in fact succeed in building such a device for Angier, with the unintentional side effect of creating copies of beings or objects ("These things never quite turn out the way you expect them to"). Through science, Tesla inadvertently created a machine that could do REAL magic and you could calibrate how close or far away to send the duplicate. Tesla wanted Angier to destroy it because, well think about it: creating endless armies, endless resources to invade the world with if it fell into the wrong hands and such. Lord Caldlow is actually Angier's real name. Angier is his stage name. He came from a wealthy family who didn't approve of his interest in magic. He was a great showman but to fellow magicians his methods were amateur at best ("I can spot Angier's methods from the back of the theater"). Borden was good at magic tricks, but terrible at selling the crowd on them ("He's a wonderful magician, he's a terrible showman"). The first time you see Angier and Borden as magician's assistants walking up on stage you'll notice that Borden just walks up the stairs directly over to Angier's wife, whereas Angier faces the crowd, smiles and bows, putting on a show.

Oooh, I love this flick, particularly David Bowie's appearance as Tesla. Something so perfect about that casting choice.

Had The Presitge come after The Dark Knight, it would have garnered the attention it deserves. It's one of Nolan's best works, yet the most underrated.

A movie so packed with talent that David Bowie and Andy Serkis are minor side characters.

You guys should watch “Prisoners” from 2013! It’s also with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal

Every time I watch this movie with someone new, I'm sitting there sweating bullets, terrified that they're gonna figure it out. But, they never do. 10/10 movie, definitely Nolan's best.

Fun fact: the movie is even more interesting when you realize that the rivalry between the magicians can be seen as an allegory to the rivalry between Tesla and Edison.

Something I’ve realized, I think at the end, Michael Caine figured out how Angiers did it, and realized Angiers came up with this plan because he thought drowning was peaceful… because that’s what Caine told him to comfort him after his wife’s death.

For my money, this is still Nolan's best movie.

Dear God. That scene with the boy's reaction to the birds is my ultimate Nolan goosebump moment. "But, where's his brother?".

You come to the conclusion that one of the brothers was still "at fault" for the death of Hugh Jackman's wife, because he was told not to tie that certain knot and did it anyway, but if it was a different brother that was scolded than the one that tied the fatal knot, it was really an honest accident. The brother that was at the funeral really didn't know what knot was tied, because he wasn't the one that tied it.

The prestige might not be Nolan best remembered film, but it might just be his all around best.

You guys were far closer to getting the "prestige" of the film than anyone who I've seen react to this. Not many were even suspicious of Fallon. Another great reaction to a great film guys 😁✌️

This is the "magic" of this movie, you can sit and talk about the complexities (or simplicity) of it for hours! Great to see you guys sitting and cranking through the theories.

What i like most about the movie is that it is like a magic trick. First it fools you and makes you guessing. Then, when you know how it works and you go back to see it, suddenly it becomes so obvious and catching all the little tells becomes the fun of it. One of the rare instances where a rewatch enhances the experience imo.

Mindblowing movie. Gets better on every rewatch