The Prestige - great movie (spoilers probably)

[Kahuna Burger]

Though if both men were sleeping with the wife, though (to preserve the illusion), it's really anyone's guess.

yeah, I tend to think they both slept with both women, and with identical DNA, the question of exact parentage is acedemic. I would definitly say that it was the one who loved his wife and daughter who lived....

In other "which one" questions.... I'm almost certain that the one who got Angier's wife killed was not the one who got shot for it. But I think he was the twin hanged at the end.

 

[dravot]

His wife was pregnant before he conceived of the trick, and needed a duplicate.

 

[John Crichton]

His wife was pregnant before he conceived of the trick, and needed a duplicate.

Really? I thought the twin was around the whole time. Like when he appeared in her apartment when she just saw him outside after they met early on.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Really? I thought the twin was around the whole time. Like when he appeared in her apartment when she just saw him outside after they met early on.

That's the way I read things. Remember, Borden was going on about his trick way before he actually started doing it. IIRC, he introduced her to his manager/twin before they were married (but I could be wrong about that).

I also think it's implicit that the two men were masquerading as one another prior to him meeting his wife due to a couple of other things- the rope error that led to Angiers' wife dying (one twin had been told not to do the knot, the other had not), and him immediately identifying the Chinese magician's secret (knowing that the man was living his life pretending to be something he wasn't- a cripple- all for the sake of a magic trick.)

Then again, looking at it now, I guess I could see a different interpretation of those events as well. That's one of the things I love about this movie- even weeks later, it still makes me think.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

I also think it's implicit that the two men were masquerading as one another prior to him meeting his wife due to a couple of other things- the rope error that led to Angiers' wife dying (one twin had been told not to do the knot, the other had not),

Right. So when Angiers demands to know which knot he used, Bordon's, "I don't know," is a truthful answer. Angiers even asks himself at one point, how could he not know? If only Angiers had answered his own question at that point....

Did anyone else think that the opening shot--all the hats on the ground--gave too much away? It didn't right at that moment, but if you remember it during the first experiment with the hat, well, you've solved that piece of the plot puzzle a little early.

 

[dravot]

Doh. You're right. I don't think I'd picked up on the 'assistant' being there at that time.

My bad.

 

[Starman]

Did anyone else think that the opening shot--all the hats on the ground--gave too much away? It didn't right at that moment, but if you remember it during the first experiment with the hat, well, you've solved that piece of the plot puzzle a little early.

I knew that shot was going to be important and I kept trying to remember it so that I could figure it out when the time rolled around. Unfortunately, by the time Tesla was doing the experiement, I had completely spaced it out, engrossed as I was in what was going on.