Current Events > Am I the only one who feels this way about the movie The Prestige? SPOILERS

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I LOVE The Prestige but I have one small critique.

IMO, I felt the movie didn't do a good job of saying both Bale and Jackman were both wrong. I didn't like how they initially tried to make Wolverine look like the good guy and then towards the end they made Batman the victim good guy instead. Hated that. If they were aiming to make it that both of them were dickhead bad guys then they should of just stuck with that from beginning.

They spent too much time establishing that Bale was a prick to then pulled a 180 at the very end and act like he's the victim. He was overall the more antagonistic of the two. Jackman's character came off more relatable, modest, humbling and more open minded thus giving the impression that he's the good guy. When Jackman did bad things towards Bale, you understood it as revenge for Bale killing his wife so you didn't think Jackman was a bad guy. He was just getting revenge. It doesn't help that Michael Cane's character was initially on Jackman's side even helping him take extreme measures to help Jackman win, and then Cane's character does a 180 and is all like "OMG Wolverine you are wrong, Batman is the good guy here!". They should of just made them look like bad guys equally from the start. That's just my opinion. Still a great movie.

I was also debating with people on CE in the past about the death of Jackman's wife. They were tryna tell me it was mostly an accident, tryna say Bale was blameless. I got kinda triggered by this because it was absolutely mostly Bale's fault she died. Everyone mainly disagreed on Bale's method of untying the rope while in the water because it was too dangerous and everyone was unfamiliar with it but the idiot tried it anyway during a live fucking show and that's what caused the death of Jackman's wife.

It was meant to be a misdirect I think, show that Bale (who seemed like a dick from the start) wasn't as bad as we thought, and that Jackman, the protagonist, isn't exactly good. I liked the movie overall

Good movie, but I don't think it necessarily paints either one as more or less positive.

Like, it goes to great lengths to show -

*Spoilers*

Just how bad Bale being two different people an effect it has on his wife. Bale and Jackman both inevitably put the game over their own personal fulfillment. It's only because Jackman was secretly wealthy that he came out on top.

That was the whole point of the movie, it was a misdirect. The movie did a good job showing both Hugh Jackman and the Christian Bale Twins as assholes.

I've been told part of the point of the movie is that there were no good guys. The purposely misdirect would make more sense.

See post 3. I've seen a lot of people say the say thing; where all initially thought both characters were shit.

What kind of Knot did batman did to wolverines wife?

^ no one knew.

it was assumed that it was the more difficult knot, and people theorized it was the other twin who tied it, but it was never confirmed.

her being unable to untie the (more simple) knot could have just been a freak accident.

I thought the Bale twin who tied it wasn't the usual one so he wasn't familiar which is he said he didn't know. But I haven't seen that movie in years.

VeggetaX posted...

Michael Cane's character

excuse me, i believe you mean Alfred
the man has a name for crying out loud

you've posted this same topic almost exactly word for word at least twice before

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

excuse me, i believe you mean Alfred
the man has a name for crying out loud

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DoesntMatter posted...

you've posted this same topic almost exactly word for word at least twice before

I repost a ton of my own topics

The movie wasnt about protagonist and antagonist, it was about obsession and pride. The primary difference is that Bale demonstrated his willingness to hurt those around him and Jackman was only willing to hurt himself; excluding their mutual desire to hurt each other.

BDSMKane posted...

The movie wasnt about protagonist and antagonist

The problem was that wasn't the initial indicator

Read the book. It's pretty good actually.