Plot

The Prestige is a 2006 psychological thriller film .

Borden and Angier are assistants for a magician. They are used as the audience to be
volunteers. The first show, the Fallon messes up on the knot and they argue that the
Langston double knot is better than the slip knot. Cutter is the igenieur • Borden and
Angier go to watch the Chinese Magician. • On the second show, Borden uses the
Langston double and Julia, the assistant is unable to get out of it, causing Julia to
drown to death. • At the funeral, Angier asks Borden which knot he uses and Fallon
replies that he doesn’t know. • Borden then goes to work by himself and is called
‘The Professor’ with Fallon as his engineer. He meets Sarah and they fall in love and
marry. • At the same time, Angier starts his magician career with Cutter as his
ingenuieur. He calls himself the Great Danton, the name Julia made up for him.

Story • Angier sabotages Borden’s bullet catch trick and ends up shooting off
Borden’s left ring and pinky fingers. • Borden in turn sabotages Angier’s
disappearing bird act and ends up hurting an audience member. • Angier spies on
Borden and sees the new trick, ‘The Transported Man’. • With a stunt double, Angier
manages to duplicate it and calls it the New Transported Man. • However, Angier still
sends Olivia, his assistant, to Borden to spy on him and learn Borden’s secret. •
Olivia falls in love with Borden but gives Borden’s journal to Angier by Borden’s
request. • The journal is encrypted so Angier kidnaps Fallon in order to get the key
word to decipher it.

story • The key word is TESLA. Borden uses that word in order to send Angier into a
wild goose chase because the scientist Tesla has nothing to do with Borden’s trick. •
Angier goes to Colorado Springs to talk with Tesla. He funds Tesla’s work while
reading the journal. Soon, Tesla builds a cloning machine. • He tries it out for the first
time and ends up killing the first clone because it actually worked. • During Angier’s
journey to Colorado, Borden has trouble at home and Sarah ends up hanging herself
because she knows that Borden is not the same person everyday. • When Angier
comes back with the ‘Real Transported Man’. He only does 100 shows. • Borden is
unable to figure out the engineering of the trick and gets frustrated. Borden then goes
backstage one day, and finds Angier drowning inside the Chinese Water Torture
Tank. He tries to get him out but fails.

story • Borden goes to trial for Angier’s murder. He then goes to jail. Lord Caldlow’s
assistant visits Borden in jail and gives Borden Angier’s journal. He offers Jess’
future in return for Borden’s tricks. • The next visit, he sees Lord Caldlow and
realizes that Angier is still alive under Caldlow’s name. He then visits Fallon and tells
him to live on for the both of them. • After Borden’s execution, Angier takes the
cloning machine to the cellar and Cutter finds out that Caldlow is Angier. • Borden
then meets Angier in the cellar and kills him and burns down the whole place. •
Borden then goes back to meet up with Jess an Cutter.