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| Reepicheep wrote: |
I want to see Memento so bad!
I liked The Prestige, but I didn't think it was up to his usual standards. I enjoyed the complexity of it, but it was lacking a Bruce Wayne or a Dom Cobb. |
It had two mains, that was the problem so many had with it. When you let go of wanting to root for a hero and instead realize its two selfish, horrible people struggling against each other (one for perfection, one for feeling) then it gets better. I loved it, its one of my favorite movies. |
To me the Prestige is Nolan's best movie. I'm not sure why it is less popular. I think you're right that people might have an expectation for a more straight-forward protagonist. Nolan's protagonists are flawed and misguided, but they are still there in Memento and Insomnia. You might be expecting that from Jackman's Angier, and then be let down that he really is not the good guy. At the end you might think that it was mixed up and Borden is the good guy, or you're just not sure. It's like Nolan's prolific Batman line, "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
I think the thing about the Prestige is that there is a side of it that you never see. Both characters are villains and also tragic heroes. It's more subtle than Memento where you never see the true story, just one man's brief impression of it. In the Prestige we see the story told through one person's eyes looking at it from the other's perspective. But remember that there are three parts to the trick. We get the Pledge and the Turn, but do we really get the Prestige? Watch the movie with that question and I think people will see it in a different way.
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I wanted to see it...
