re: The Prestige [SPOILERS]

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I'm just wondering if there are any thoughts out there, that the movie is a trick in itself. I just asked if the book went into anymore detail on that.

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IIRC, there were one or two people who thought that. Casty McBoozer, for one, stands out as someone who thought the movie itself was a trick and that we, the audience, were being tricked. It had something to do with the bodies in the tanks at the end, but I can't remember exactlty what his argument was. I do remember completely disagreeing with him on that though.

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The questions revolved around what all does that truth imply? Who was being killed nightly? etc.

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IMO it was very clear that the "current" Angier went into the tank every night, and that the clone ended up in the spotlight. I know there was a line in the movie where he said something along the lines of "Sometimes I never know if I'm gonna be the one in the tank or the one getting the applause" or whatever. But I always took that as just him describing the mindfrick of knowing that he (the "current" he) knowingly sacrificed himself every time he gave a performance.

The thing that was weird though, was why they kept all of the dead clone bodies...seems easy enough to dispose of them. That had something to do with Casty's argument IIRC.