The Prestige

I am constantly surprised by Christopher Nolan. He manages to get the central conceit of a tale so strongly, and then proceeds to have such an iron-clad grip over it, that not just the the art and beauty of storytelling, but the craft and audacity with which he constructs these films is to be applauded. In Memento, he explored a story about a man who can't remember, through mind-bending reverse chronology, and in Batman Begins he told the origin of a dark superhero by pondering on the rough and tumble of his early days and the darkness that surrounds his soul. In The Prestige, once aga....