A 2006 film by Christopher Nolan about two rival Victorian magicians whose obsessive competition leads to sacrifice, deception, and a Faustian technological bargain.
Used the three-act structure of a stage magic trick (the Pledge, the Turn, the Prestige) as the film's own narrative architecture, making the movie simultaneously about illusion and an act of illusion.
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