The Prestige

Borden:

"Are you watching closely? Look closer." "Never. Show. Anyone. They'll beg you and flatter you for the secret- but as soon as you give it up you'll be nothing to them. Understand? Nothing. The secret impresses no one- the trick you use it for is everything."

Angier:

"The audience knows the truth- that the world is simple. Miserable. Solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, you could make them wonder.

Then you got to see something very special...

(coughs, looks up)

You really don't know?

It was the look on their faces."

I finally saw The Prestige, directed by the magnificent Christopher Nolan. It took me so long to see it not because of a disinterest, but because Nolan requires your absolute full attention when he gives you a piece of his mind. The past few years I've been distracted by life, feeling almost unworthy to watch the film because I wasn't absolutely sure I'd be able to give the film the attention it deserved. But it seems that these very distractions have been necessary to build up for me its important message.

Above are quotes from the two stars of the film. (Watch it for context)

Inevitably, in life, you will experience events that will disrupt your flow. Of thinking. Of living. Of everything you may have seemed to figure out. You will question this disruption. Ponder new mechanisms, new truths, to reestablish your flow. And although you might find yourself a solution, life happens again, and it leaves you in what seems to be an endless pursuit of finding answers, an equilibrium, a steady flow.

So why fight what seems to be an unending battle? An unsolvable mystery? An unexplainable magic trick?

Because no one ever said they didn't enjoy riding a wild river flow.

We live to be able to experience the magic.