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Film review: The Prestige


The craft of magic has had a sort of resurgence today with the proliferation of so-called street magicians who astound and regale via up-close-and-personal illusions. But even if we’ve seen David Blaine levitate on a city sidewalk on TV, we know there is a catch.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1435777 [AuthorName] => Kap Maceda Aguila [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365777 [Title] => Malevolent magic [Summary] => Everyone remembers seeing their first magic trick. (At least I can remember mine: a bit of business in which my ginger-haired uncle detached his index finger from his hand, only to return it safely moments later.) What amazed us kids, usually, was bearing witness to the impossible. Didn’t matter that, later, our uncle showed us how the trick was done. As Borden, Christian Bale’s character in The Prestige, points out to us: "The secret means nothing; the trick means everything."
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365965 [Title] => Malevolent magic [Summary] => Everyone remembers seeing their first magic trick. (At least I can remember mine: a bit of business in which my ginger-haired uncle detached his index finger from his hand, only to return it safely moments later.) What amazed us kids, usually, was bearing witness to the impossible. Didn’t matter that, later, our uncle showed us how the trick was done. As Borden, Christian Bale’s character in The Prestige, points out to us: "The secret means nothing; the trick means everything."
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