The Prestige, and a podcast.

The Prestige is a masterful film that’ll keep your brain up until way after the credits have rolled. Christopher nolan is fast becoming one of my favorite directors, and both Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale are coming into their own as actors. Scarlet Johanssen comes along to entertain us with some boobage, but could easily have been replaced with some equally well endowed bosom.

I can’t reveal the plot too much without giving away spoilers, but what caught my attention the most was the allusion to Thomas Edison as something of a villainous character, in that he would use goons to menace Nikola Tesla, who at the time was proposing an alternative to Edison’s more popular DC electricity. Edison in many ways has taken on the form of a legend, of a man who brough the 2oth century to us with his inventions. To see him portrayed as a cunning and wily businessman who would stop at nothing (even holding back technology) to protect his patents is an eye opener, to say the least.

Right, back to the movie. Since there’s nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said, I’ll point you guys to my favorite movie podcast, Filmspotting. I’ve listened to these guys for almost a year now, and it’s partly their fault that I’ve felt like I’ve watched so many movies without actually ever going to a film theater for the longest time.