Arthur: [Getting out of the water after the kicks] What happened?
Ariadne: Cobb stayed.
Arthur: With Mal?
Ariadne: No, to find Saito.
Arthur: He’ll be lost.
Ariadne: No, he’ll be all right.

I think I really was only positing one thing throughout this entire blog – and that is, Mal was right. Cobb is dreaming actually dreaming. All the rest is semantics. Are there actually 7 layers? No probably not… because Limbo isn’t a layer. And also because Cobb’s Limbo and Saito’s Limbo should be the same. But seven is so much snappier concept to sell than 5. heheh. It is the perfect number. Just saying.

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Taylor

When Fallon got trapped in the box by Cutter and Angier ,he immediately shot out through the box,to warn Angier he has a gun.Angier therefor could not open the box at will and perhaps pull his disguise off.It fooled Angier and bought Alfred`s true trick some time.This too was planned as Alfred lead them in the chase scene.

Angier`s quest for vengeance got substituted with seeking fame and to better Alfred.Yet he was the one being tricked all the time.The sacrifices he made are nothing compared to Alfred loosing his brother or perhaps a clone friend .But it did make him rich.Try and watch the film again with these opinions I stated ; magicians tricking a man to lose his wife (she would get the will if he should die rich)so they took her out of the picture first.With the Transporting man they lead him to feel not only jealous but vengeful.They kept leading him even after a while he thought he got the upper hand and lead Alfred to a set up.They needed him to draw in crowds many times with an awesome trick.Why does Angier close his eyes when he allows people to inspect his device.He wants to trick Alfred into inspecting it and the under stage to set him up.Perhaps Alfred wanted to be set up maybe not.When he read Angier`s notes in prison ,Angiers speaks to him directly.
Why does Alfred/Fallon so easily reveal his tricks to Angier but not the reason for the knot?
The knot was a murder, to con Angier onto to this path.And in the end they made money from a half-assed unoriginal ‘magician’.
If Fallon was a clone then Alfred iss a better magician than Angier ever could be.It was in his nature to work with his clone (himself) but Angier nor his 100 clones could trust each other or work together.
Angier even though he was the conned victim,deserved true death in the end like Alfred took responsibility for Sarah Borden`s death (Fallon`s wife),never for Julia (Angier`s wife).

What if this film is more about money than magic.From the very start before all the conflict started between two magicians,you were being fooled or should I say conned.It was all part of The Pledge.
Consider this.A father and his two identical sons,help rich people do magic for fame.They aren`t very well of because of their clothes and the way they speak.
A well of man joins this ‘family business’.He wants to learn magic.The father and two sons know they can make a fortune off him.Angier has good showman-ship,he knows the trade.
The Turn ; they kill his wife.Yes I said it.It was no accident.3 things happen now.We see Angier enraged and a lets be honest here , at an affordable funeral.
Why kill his wife you ask?To control the will.Or to lead Angier onto a path of not only revenge but competition only to be conned later.
Alfred starts a new act that plants the idea of revenge in Angier`s mind ; The transported man.
He meets Cutter (the father) who proposes an idea ;He can be better he has showman ship. He meets an assistant (Olivia )who is in on the act from the start.Yes she has been in love with Alfred from the start even before they met for the first time.She conveniently takes Angier to a double of himself or perhaps a clone.They constantly lead Angier away from the question, what knot was used and more to the trick of the transported man.As Angier follows Alfred.Alfred leads him and Fallon who follows hAngier down a certain path.Fallon falls through ,gets trapped by Cutter and Angier and held ransom for the the key code of the trick found in the notebook Alfred wanted .Bit weird that Alfred did the leading ?.He exchanges the key code but on purpose.When he told his wife he lost something precious was it the secret of his trick or perhaps Fallon his brother or maybe his clone.Bernard Fallon.The first letter followed by the a in Fallon is ‘ L ‘ again. Bernard is also the second letter to Alfred maybe meaning that he is the younger twin or the second original clone.
I`m not certain whether Angier knew that Borden was conning him and there for did a trick of his own and even revealed in his diary that he knew that Alfred Borden would play slip up and investigate.The thing is Angier killed many of himselfs leaving the question of where to all the clones go.Beckoning Borden to consider that and investigate.Angier staged his fake death to get back at Borden.But he still persist on knowing the truth of Alfred Bordens trick.He hit`s him where it hits hardest,taking his daughter.
The final part of the turn : Borden is hanged to death.
Cutter nods to Fallon/Borden after his conversation with Angier as he walks out of the theater.
The Prestige.Borden/Fallon appears or Prestiges only to Angier revealing the answer to him to his death.The whole world except Cutter and Alfreds daughter is still in The TURN phase forever.
Even when he explained almost everything and the audience is think they figured out the prestige the Narrator says ,….we want to be fooled. is true.
Alfred wanted to be caught and hanged for the murder of Angier.They needed for him to make lots of money then stop doing magic to hide his identity (Lord Coltrane) notice the C and play of the alphabetical letter through out the films characters.
Alfred finally killed the last and only version of Angier after they originally killed his wife.Conning him out of all his money he made for them.That`s what I thought happened anyway because Alfred meets with Cutter even though he was supposed to be on Angier`s side.

I didn’t realize the comments plugin jacked up the readability of the older comments. Need to go fix that pronto. Regardless, would love to hear your comments after you’ve rewatched it again!

Until then,
Taylor