On behalf of the people who haven't actually seen the film, could people please put "Spoiler Alert" in the email before you give away crucial details to a movie? Many of the films mentioned in this thread I haven't seen. If I had read Chris's post before watching The Prestige I would have been pissed off.
Thanks, Terren On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:20 AM, chris peck <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It makes even more mysterious your resistance to UDA > > Well The Prestige is a film about obsession and the lengths people go to > meet them. Its not about the UDA. > > It does contain a teleport machine in it and the naughty magician keeps > duplicating himself and killing off one of the duplicates. > > At one point, when arguing about what sacrifices he has made for his art, > he points out that every night he is in a state of horror because he > doesn't know whether he will end up at the back of the stage or drowning in > the vat. ofcourse, he is just in a state of denial because he ought to know > precisely what he will experience: survival to the prestige AND drowning. > Its not as if there could be any doubt about it. The set up makes both > experiences certain. But its not really a flaw in script, because the > audience sees it clearly. Its why its such a macabre ending. Here is man so > obsessed with bettering his rival that he reduces his life to a living hell > drowning himself every night. The goody magician's sacrifices are bad > enough, losing a finger, losing a wife, losing a brother. But the naughty > magicians sacrifices are deliberate and knowing self annihilation and its > this that makes his story so horrifically tragic. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 13:53:15 -0400 > > Subject: Re: Films I think people on this forum might like > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> "The Prestige" may just be the best movie in the last 15 years. > > > > So we agree on this. > > > Yes. > > > It makes even more mysterious your resistance to UDA > > > I see absolutely no contradiction between thinking that "The prestige" is > saying something profound that rings true and thinking that the things that > the Universal Dance Association says that are profound are not true and the > things that it's saying that are true are not profound. > > John K Clark > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
