Name: プレステ：平然と隠れている (The Prestige: Hiding In Plain Sight)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:19:15.000Z
Duration: 7 min 38 s
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As a filmmaker, Christopher Nolan always wants to walk a fine line.

If there's one fundamental theme that suffuses his entire filmography

can be a hugely  powerful cultural force.

the Inception team bears a strong resemblance to a film crew.

But interestingly, though a lot of his work

about avoiding metacinematic images in his work.

For example, in the established Batman continuity,

Bruce Wayne and his parents are out to see

that incites the Dark Knight's whole saga.

the Waynes are out to the opera "Mefistofele" instead.

his cinema has always been about immersion,

and you're carried along by the narrative momentum.

This is the line that Nolan wants to walk;

he wants to be immersive and metacinematic at the same time.

In other words, he wants to hide in plain sight.

Hiding in plain sight is essentially the subject matter

You could almost call this film meta-metacinematic

in that it functions as a kind of rule book

without seeming deconstructionist to use Nolan's words.

The first thing you see is the film title over a mysterious shot

The text here is, of course, the title card.

you know that this text also has a literal function,

because these hats are the prestige of the prestige itself.

It's the key to understanding the tricks of this film,

and this is echoed in the second shot as well,

with bird cages full of identical canaries.

From here, Michael Caine's character goes on to describe

"Every magic trick consists of three parts or acts:"

The pledge, the turn and finally, the prestige.

The sequence carefully sets up the film's own pledges,

played by Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, respectively,

illustrating its method through Michael Caine's voice-over

But the film is playing its own tricks here, through editing.

someone commenting on the events being shown

it cuts to the courtroom scene of Borden's murder trial

as if Michael Caine's whole explanation was testimony.

that we learn that the bird trick with the girl

is chronologically the last moment in the film.

between the voice-over and the scene under it.

And this kind of displacement is the key mechanism

that moves its object through time and space instantaneously.

This is exactly what all film editing does.

Most of editing cuts between short distances and continuous times,

But that same simple cut can traverse great distances also

and great lengths of time in either direction.

Nolan has described learning the power of this

by watching Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line",

and the powerful effect this can have on a viewer.

"The Prestige" exploits this power to the extreme,

cutting between multiple different nested memories.

Nolan sets up this device with Borden and Angier's journals.

he cuts between the narratives, at will, and without warning.

without compromising the audience's suspended disbelief.