Fatal magic-not just magic

Keith 2022-01-25 08:01:23

There is a kind of movie that has more mysteries than general dramas, and more philosophical than detective movies. Both IQ and EQ can reach a certain height. Moreover, the ending must make you marvel at the case!

For example, David Fincher, his movie will let you fall into his own nightmare. You can choose to accept and interpret his dreams. You can more and more appreciate the state of Zhuang Zhou’s dream of butterflies; you can also not accept it, because it is from beginning to end. A boring journey.

Or like another David, David Lynch, he ambushes a few interesting questions and starts to arouse your interest, but the answer disappoints you.

If the first two are not exciting enough, then I will give you a few interesting puzzles and never tell you the answer. You can guess or leave it alone, but you will never forget this in your life. The question is.

Nolan has racked my brains with a piece of "Memories", this "Fatal Magic" is another breathtaking movie. (The 2006 film, I only watched it today because

I only knew that the director was Christopher yesterday) I can't tell all the mysteries in this film, because the director's ambition is to fool the world.

Is Anger dead?

No, at least one of the anger in the water tank has air bubbles.

What exactly is that machine?

It’s not teleportation, but copying. I think it’s not appropriate for many netizens to classify that machine as "clone" because that machine is copying all of you "now", including memory, that is, not just your chromosomes, but It's every cell, every physiological change in your last second.

Who on earth is dead in the tank?

This can only be said to be "one of the anger", because it is possible for an anger replica to kill which one. The first replica produced was killed by the anger, but every future A magic trick is a self-sacrifice, which is the so-called "sacrifice" of the anger before his death. The teleport succeeds, and at the same time he accepts the applause and thunderous applause, the other anger is already dead.

Broden's sacrifice?

His sacrifice is to "share", sharing half of his life, including love. Sarah's death, the severed fingers, and all the applause of the audience were all victims.

For the person cutter?

He knows that Broden is going to kill Anger. You will see that when Cutter is out of the theater, he nods with Broden, and everyone's explanation for this is that he wants to give jess a father. But I think it can't be that simple, and it's unreasonable. Cutter and Anger have been partners for so many years, and in terms of the relationship, Cutter and Anger are much better. In the duel between Anger and Broden, Cutter always advises Anger.

What is the story about sailors told by cutter?

That story, told to anger before, drowning is like going home, and at the end tells him another truth, drowning and desperate for life. This means that every "sacrifice" of an anger is a "sorrow to life". Those angers who die are all for magic, and their dedication is greater than the value of magic.

What if this commercial film is raised to a philosophical level?

Every copy of an anger must be killed by one of the anger. It may be the operator or a copy. If the memory and body are the same, then is the dead person you? Are you still alive? Is it possible to refer to the "intrinsic self", "self" and "superego"?

That anti-scientific, supernatural "replicating machine" may be an image of another concept. All the replicas are each "I" or "I", and whether each "I" is willing to do Sacrifice for the next "I". If you want to, why does every "I" who is about to sacrifice struggle to death in the water tank? It's like the magic that turns the bird in the cage out of it! Every time, a bird must be sacrificed. In the movie, Broden's phrase "who will be the next bad luck", foreshadows Anger's future life.

Every drowning is a painful one.

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Extended Reading
  • Wayne 2022-03-23 09:01:07

    I like this period film with texture and characteristics the most. The rhythmic suspense editing and photography are all very good, but the inexplicable supernatural elements make me feel very contrary, otherwise it is a magical film.

  • Richard 2022-03-23 09:01:07

    Turn the magic into decay (-_-#)

The Prestige quotes

  • Robert Angier: No one cares about the man in the box, the man who disappears.

  • [In reference to a bird from a trick]

    Alfred Borden: See? He's fine!

    Boy: But where's his brother?