“The Prestige” follows two enthusiastic magicians in the late nineteenth century who at first are friends, but slowly become rivals in the art of performing magic because of the growing envy of one another to find the best magic trick. The Prestige skips between three time periods in both Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) that pulls all the events in their competitive careers into one conclusive end. By putting these three time periods into the movie, it follows the same pattern as an actual magic trick. First there is “The Pledge”, a basic trick to start off your show: then there is “The Turn”, the part of the show were you would unveil your best trick and perform it and leave the audience stunned and then at last “The Prestige” which would be the part of the show where you would conclude your act, or in other words, “reappear”.

The movie is really gripping because you can’t quite guess what will happen next, but you also really won’t know what is really going on until the last five minutes of the movie, because just like magic, you want to leave the audience fooled.