wirtten and directed by batmans and inceptions Christopher Nolan and staring hugh jackman and christian bale
the opening scene is of "the Prestige" is of a pile of tophats looks very out of place in the woodland setting this confuese the audience as apart form the tophat magicien connoation it has nothing really to do with the film, but what it does do is atrackt the audiences attention as they are wating for somthing to happen. instead of the film starting you get Christian Bale is his very reconisable gruff voise saying "are you watching closely" this couppled with the lack of music giving the opening a sloum feeling as you are waiting for somthing bad to happen.
After the top hat scene the shot them cuts to birds in a cage that will soon be a part of a magic trick. The voice over is of Michael Caine explaining the three parts of a magic trick the pledge, the turn and the prestige this is a moving monologue but also gives back ground information to the film, though out this monalog the scenes move around the in the time line making it hard to pin down exactly whats happening.
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