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I thought it odd enough that a 2nd Truman Capote movie came out a year after Capote. And now, just a few weeks after seeing the Illusionist, another period piece on magicians, covering many of the same issues of what is real and what is illusion.Christopher Nolan made Memento, and his style seems to be to chop and scramble the time sequence, causing some viewer confusion. In the end, however, this structure adds a satisfactory sense of solving the puzzle as you can think back and put all the pieces together.
There are 2 magicians in late 19th century London, who have become bitter rivals and enemies. They are in competition primarily through the master trick that they both do. Both are intensely interested in the method of the other.
This is a puzzle type of movie, rather like The Illusionist and it would be a mistake to say too much about it. Scarlett Johansson does a good job as an assistant who may be in love or may be betraying either or both magicians.
Unlike The Illusionist, which is a fairly straightforward story, this movie asks some provocative questions about sacrifice in the service of art. I could not say more without revealing too much.
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And he can sing & dance.I especially enjoyed seeing Andy Serkis and David Bowie. The idea of Bowie-as-Tesla creating a machine that - well, you know - I found irrestistable.
Caise, as always, is the rock that holds the whole thing together.
Bales has GOT to do something about those eyebrows!
I'm a straight male, so take from this what you will, but I think Hugh Jackman ranges from hideous to tolerable.
...Stevie Nicks - a sawed off pekingese with a voice like like a squeaky wheel.
wow.
A puzzle whereby I didn't put all the pieces together unfortunately and I'm not afraid to admit as much.I don't know that I'll view it in the theater again but a netfix rental eventually will afford the luxury of not having to return it until I decide to do so. :)
...duplicate top hats on the mountainside in Colorado, and the two kitties.The last shot gives it away.
Hollywood does this continually. Two Christopher Columbus movies, two heavenly bodies crashing into the Earth movies, two Mars movies, two L.A. in the 30's crime movies, etc., not to mention the inexhaustible series of sequels.
as it built towards the finale. Poor Jackman couldn't act his way out of a damp paper bag and poor Bale has already become the 21st Century Lee Van Cleef . . . but it all worked.One thing, though, Mike Caine will really, really be missed someday unlike other more "lofty" personages. He brings such a deft touch of commonality and humanity to his roles.
Grits: the other white starch!
.....Your Lee Van Cleef analogy. That's interesting.I don't know Van Cleef's work that well, beyond the obvious, later stuff but I do appreciate Bale's work. Agreed, he's no heavyweight or pretty boy but he seems to work with consistency in terms of ability, growth and activity. He can carry a movie.
This is no challenge, just a curiosity about your particular insight.
brilliant, of course.
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