IV Movie Screening Details

Dear Members,

We will be screening the IV movie on 11th of April i.e on Saturday. The venue for this screening is Engineering Sciences Block's Seminar Hall .The time of screening is around 11.30 AM .Please do carry your ID cards with you.

The Prestige Movie Review

At the beginning of the movie Michael Caine says that every magic trick consists of three acts: "the Pledge, in which a seemingly real situation is set up, the Turn, in which the initial reality is challenged, and the Prestige, where all is set right again." It's a movie about two magicians Alfred Borden played by Christian Bale and Robert Angier played by Hugh Jackman. These two magicians are initially used as plants by another magician called Milton the Magician (Ricky Jay), with Cutter (Michael Caine) as his illusion engineer. Angier's wife,Julia, falls into a Chinese Torture Box during a show and dies. This starts a bitter rivalry between Angier and Borden because Angier blames Borden for the death of Julia. After the fight the two magicians start two separate careers and Borden becomes popular with a coveted trick called 'The Transported Man'in which he bounces a ball across the stage before stepping through a door and instantly reappearing from a second door on the opposite side of the stage to catch the ball. Obsessed with obatining the trick, Angier plants Olivia (Scarlett Johansson) in Borden's camp. Borden and Olivia fall in love and Olivia cheats Angier, which results in Angier losing a leg. So, as retribution Cutter and Angier bury Fallon, Borden's aid alive. In exchange for the location of the coffin Borden gives the key encrypted diary, which contains the details the transported man. The key-Tesla. So, Angier treks into the snows of Colorado to visit the hidden laboratory of the (real-life) Nikola Tesla (David Bowie), who may have manufactured the trick for Borden.

The Prestige by Chris and Jonathan Nolan has nearly everything except The Prestige. It's more like a trick about a trick, which was kind of disappointing. However, an ensemble cast, good performances and quite a lot of magicmakes The Prestige a nice watch.