The Prestige/Fridge

""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 work it out. You want to be...fooled.""
 * Fridge Brilliance: Christian Bale's performance becomes a lot more impressive when you realize that
 * It also makes the scene where Borden is talking to Fallon about Sarah even more heart-wrenching.
 * When Olivia addresses Bowden, he asks her to call him Alfred, and soon she starts calling him Freddy. you realize that   had already been revealed then and there. As the movie said, it's only realized in hindsight because the viewer didn't look closely enough to discover the secret, and didn't want to know it. Those lines are actually Breaking the Fourth Wall. Subtle.


 * When Borden said that he couldn't remember whether he used the new knot, was he lying, flustered, or ?
 * There's even more Fridge Brilliance here.  - if you just watched the movie and realized it, you'll be hit by a bomb. The night when Julia drowns,
 * The acting also makes it clear that
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 * An additional example:
 * Or possibly,
 * Just before the twin is executed, his last words are "Abracadabra". We realize what he meant when the real Bowden comes in and shoots Angier before revealing in the Tomato Surprise.
 * The whole plot of the movie was based on the very same trick at the center of the plot, only not on stage. It was done with twins after all.
 * Fridge Horror: In a fashion reminiscent of Quantum Suicide, each time Angier uses 's device he appears to Equally possible though is that  The end result is that not only does
 * Worse still, each time the trick is performed, By the end of the film,  Angier  has survived the trick potentially dozens of times;
 * Whether the above is true or not, by the end of the film
 * Either that or there is no Angier/corpse that is more or less "original" and the entire debate is an exercise in arbitrary definitions.
 * Fridge Logic: If the only bar to pulling off the Transported Man with body doubles is finding a good enough doppelganger, Angier only really needed to
 * It's halfway between Logic and Brilliance. Yes, he absolutely could have. However, by that point he's got tunnel vision something fierce: remember, back when he, Borden mocked him mercilessly for it. Thus, in his mind the "correct" way to do the Transported Man doesn't involve that particular schtick. And so he flies right past the obvious solution to set up his own, needlessly complex  version.
 * The audience is already presented with the reason why two live Angiers wouldn't work:
 * It also shows a key difference between Angier and Borden. Borden is willing to sacrifice his own life for magic; Angier will sacrifice others.
 * When you put it that way, it's much easier to see who the black is in this Black and Gray Morality.
 * Although, it's also revealing of Angier's motivation as a performer:
 * Actually, his motivation is the audience, receiving the applause.
 * Or, more simply, Angier
 * Or, more simply, Angier