THE PRESTIGE Breakdown | Ending Explained, Every Twist Clue, Easter Eggs & Things You Missed

INSANE DETAILS In The Prestige | Ending Explained, Every Twist Clue, Foreshadowing, Easter Eggs And Things You Missed. In the video, we breakdown The Prestige and talk about things you probably missed the first time around. The Prestige is one of Christopher Nolan's strongest movies and it's definitely a film that gets better and better the more that you watch it. Filled with easter eggs, hidden details, amazing foreshadowing and a lot of things you might have missed, I thought I'd take a trip through the film to discuss everything about it. Let's get into it!

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Ok so The Prestige is one of Christopher Nolan's strongest movies and it's definitely a film that gets better and better the more that you watch it. It's one of the only films I've seen where I finished watching it and immediately started it up again in order to see how everything was connected. Filled with insane details, amazing foreshadowing and a lot of things you might miss I thought I'd take a trip through the film to discuss everything about it.

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So the movie centres around the victorian magicians Robert Angier and Alfred Borden...and his twin. We watch as their rivalry escalates further and further and being someone who exists in the highly competitive landscape that is Youtube, I'm ashamed to admit that I've even been pulled into vicous things like this too.

I'm sure lots of people have found rivalries similar to this and the characters in the film have one that develops into an obsession. Unintentionally this leads to the death of their loved ones and them being truly alone in the world.

The deaths of the characters wives actually foreshadown their own and early on they reflect the fate that's in store for each character.

Angiers wife Julia drowns in a box and this is of course mirrored in the death that the versions of him face if they're trapped in the tank.

One of the Borden brothers die by hanging and this is set up by his wifes death earlier in the film who hangs herself at the mid point.

The film is very much about duplicates and mirrors with Angier creating copies of himself in order to pull off an impossible magic trick. This is mirrored in the Bordens who are revealed to be twins at the end showing how there was a hidden double in the movie the entire time.

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[omairmazhar]

If you watch the movie very closely, you notice that Bale actually shifts personalities while representing either of the Borden brothers. the one married to Sarah is overall more calm and composed with more focus on his family, while the brother who falls in love with olivia is more obsessed with magic, and looses temper easily. He's the brother who is later hanged, so in a way, the one who was the familyman got to be with his daughter, which to me, was very powerful moment in the final scene of the movie

[joey_dangerously]

At the beginning of the film, Borden says something like "We were two men at the start of a career." You'd think he was referring to himself and Angier, but he is really referring to himself and his brother.

[AntonioPizza]

My favorite of all Nolan's films. He blantanly spoils it several times in each act, and even explicitly tells us that even though he's revealed the twist, we the audience will CHOOSE not to believe it.

[markcowley]

In my opinion, this is one of the few complete movies; fully formed, rounded, no obvious plot holes. One of my absolute favourites.

[Aishasiddiqa_]

The entire movie was a trick to the audience. The last line where Cutter goes “You don’t really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.” gives me chills once I spotted the explicit giveaways of the twist in my third watch. It felt like Nolan himself said that
to the audience. This film, hands down, is the most brilliant psychological film ever made. He matches the pacing of the movie to the story so perfectly. He did the same with Memento and that was a masterpiece too.

[kinhamid]

Another thing I love about this film is that all the time we see Borden and Angier compete obsessively against each other, it's hinted that Tesla and Edison might be going through the same thing, in a scientific context. Masterpiece.

[ObaREX]

I like the "we should've told Fallon" bit. Implying Sarah is talking to the wrong brother and that the one posing as Fallon is the actual father.

[alexanderdumas-]

I think Angier knows he could never share the spotlight with a copy of himself and neither would the copy. When he looked into his own eyes he literally sees his inability to do so and in that moment they both know one must die for this trick to go on. It’s why the other is immediately afraid of what’s going to happen.

[MuscleBound_withDre]

This movie was my entrance/beginning into the “Plot Twist genre.” It’s been an amazing journey and I WISH I could rewatch this for the first time.

[BigEKccwp]

This movie has a special place in my heart. It was the last film my mom and I saw in theaters together before she rapidly got sick from cancer. I remember discussing it all the way home in detail, and we were so perplexed by it. Good times, miss you Mom. ❤

[vincentchow]

Something that wasn't pointed out: at the 18:00 mark there's a reference to why Angier shoots the duplicate instead of having two - later in the movie Borden remarks that the 2 brothers were satisfied living half a life each - something Angier couldn't do. I thought it was a nice touch - the reason Angier can't do the trick, even after having a duplicate, is because he can't live that life - Angier and Borden aren't the same.

[sophiaisabelle]

The Prestige had so much to offer in terms of the plot, the characters, and the overarching themes. We appreciate your breakdown of this.

[Dom_]

I agree, this one of Nolan’s best movies. It’s a testament to how great it is that it’s so rewatchable

[Cottn_]

Personally believe this is one of the best written movies of all time. Expertly crafted, acted, & executed. Thanks for the video on it, as there’s not many and this move is extremely underrated.

[moses]

A real beauty of this movie is that the "twist" is foreshadowed so heavily that it's almost expected, to the point that Michael Caine repeatedly tells Angier what the trick is but he won't listen. But the foreseeable but unknown twist is basically what the theme of the movie is. I think it's represented well when Borden shows his wife the bullet catch and she's like "womp womp". Ppl would rather be tricked, ppl want to believe in the impossible. And that's what makes magic (and film) so enduring.

[Boyso]

This is an incredible movie. Nolan did such an awesome job of showing us Fallon and who he was yet at the same time he made sure that you didn’t notice him too much. You’re well aware of him but at the same time you almost forget about him completely. It’s always amazed me how a director knows exactly how much of a character needs to be noticed while not making the twist too obvious. It’s brilliant

[Shani]

My favorite movie broken down so well, seen it probably 20 times and you showed me stuff I never caught. Thank you.

[mirjamheijn]

17:13 I don't think he was acting mad because he almost lost his brother, I think he was acting mad because he had been buried alive for half a day. After all it is the ambitious/risk taking brother that followed Angier, whereas the calm/family man rescues him.

[mebeBrianna]

The first time Tesla tests out the machine it’s on a cat that he brings out in a box. While I was thinking about the concept of Robert having to face death every night, I realized that at the moment he stepped into the machine, he was both dead and alive, exactly like Schrödinger’s cat. I am utterly blown away by Nolan.

[savioemc]

Agreed, this is his best film so far. And C. Bale was great in it: if you pay close attention, you can really tell when he's playing one brother and when he's playing the other one. One (Sarah's lover, and the girl's father) is "the brains" of the two, he is the ingenieur, he is the one who invents the tricks and writes and draws the diary, and has a sweeter voice and calm temper, and seems a little more shy; the other one (I call him Freddie because of Scarlett) is the angrier one; it is the "manual" one; he is the one who loves manual tricks such as the bullet-catch, and plays with the red ball, or with the ring, or with his business card in prison; he raises his voice often, gets angry when Sarah asks him to buy the house, and has a huskier, deeper voice; he's the one who asks his brother "the brain" <why can't you figure out HOW Angier is making his trick?>