The Prestige Conflict Essay

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In Christopher Nolan’s movie The Prestige, we see a major conflict reoccurring between Robert Angier and Alfred Borden. Angier and Borden rival to see who the more superior magician is and who can win over the audience, while trying to stay true to their identity. The choices Angier makes takes a wrong turn when he is faced with a clash that will change his morals and judgement. The encounter between Angier and society will conflict with his moral judgement between himself and the people around him. Robert Angier had formerly been a caring, loving man who wanted to be with his late wife Julia and perform magic tricks to make other people thrilled. As the film goes on we see Angier’s moral judgment get the best of him as his identity changes profound. Angier has many unsettling problems with Borden, Angier believes that Borden tied a knot that Julia could not get out of. Julia did consent Borden to tie the knot that Julia unfortunately could not manage getting out of. Angier’s success gets the best of him as he makes his Magic tricks his whole life, and starts to forget his late wife Julia. Angier becomes a version of himself that he never wanted to be.…show more content…
Angier starts getting his hand dirty as cotter said he would have to do in order to move his career forward, but Angier goes from getting his hand dirty by killing doves in order to make his magic trick look ‘real’, to killing replications of himself, he did so by using the electric machine made by Tesla, to make replications of himself to make the audience fall for his act. Angier didn’t know that by killing replications of himself, Angier was simply killing himself. Angier was killing many parts of himself that changed Angier’s moral judgment and made him only care about the audience and

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