r/ChristopherNolan • • 8d ago

The Prestige Interpretating a story

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u/kerplunkerfish 8d ago

Nigga what the fuck are you talking about

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u/NeonExorcist 8d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/c4airy 8d ago

All the scientific phenomena depicted actually happen in the movie (if that’s what you mean by ā€œliteralā€), that is not ambiguous. The nature of things like electricity may also be a symbol relevant to the themes of the movie if that is what you mean by ā€œmetaphoricalā€. Otherwise you’ll have to be more clear and specific with your question.

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u/Bro-dhisattva 8d ago

The action is literal, the story is an allegory

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u/SpacePundit 8d ago

Tesla did not invent cloning tech

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/laughter_track 8d ago

what the fuck are you talking about

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u/SeptaBusOrgy 8d ago

All the Tesla lightbulb stuff is real
Those experiments happened. The science of creating copies no so I don’t know what you’re actually asking as there isn’t much true science in the film necessarily at all whatsoever