Movie: The Prestige
It’s been a while since I last saw a movie in the cinema, because I have a stupidly busy schedule. The prestige has been on my list of movies to see since I saw the trailer a few months ago. Maybe my heart is just not in it tonight, I just didn’t quite like this movie. Production, acting, and everything else is great, just the story itself is something of a let down. Basically, it’s about two bitter rivals battling it out, triggered by the death of the magician’s assistant. A bitter rivalry it was, stupid too. You see these two continue to sabotage each other’s act/career just because they are jealous of each other. Till the very end, one of them finally dies. Neither of them take the bright or right path and go with very under handed tasks to destroy each other. The frustrating thing is they do a douzen of these little thing knowing it won’t fataly wound the competition. It’s like watching two sissies fight. If one truely hates the other so much, just grap the gun and get it over with.
With that said, the whole movie is like north american politics. You try and cheer for the lesser of two evils. Oh and the background is supposely set in turn-of-the-century London,…hmmm…what’s the British accent? Other than the wardrobe, you’d probably dont’ realize it’s suppose to be London. Oh and the magical machine that has such significance to the conclusion, Ed agreed with me on this one, if I or anyone have such a machine, first thing is fuck the audience. Who cares about the audience if you have a machine that can duplicate anything.
…anyway, you’d probably notice by now I’m not too into writing about this movie neither. Seriously, I really wanted to watch "running with scissors". My brain needs some intellectual stimulation more than some hollywood thrill.
