re: I have a question about The Prestige

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So you think Tesla's machine worked?

Now, you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because, of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled

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IMO Tesla's machine clearly worked and it's pretty inarguable. I mean, we see the (assumedly) multiple cats, plus the hats, plus Angier be cloned. Now, there are arguments that the cat(s)/hats were planted to fool the audience, and that the Angier/clone scene was a lie (unreliable narrator type of thing), but I think that's a bit unfair and would be pretty shitty if that were the case. I think if you take the movie at what it presents, you have to believe that the machine worked and actually cloned things. The hats prove that for me, and even if you don't believe the story told by Angier that the clone machine worked and cloned him, at the end with the shot of all the Angier bodies should spell it out for you, no?