The Prestige has a scene at the very end that really beats just about any movie before it in how shocking it really is. There is a lot in the movie hinting at the shocking twist. The entire movie, there is a man with Borden, named Mr. Fallon, who almost never talks, not even when he is being buried alive. There is also the way Sarah asks Borden quite frequently if he loves her. He always say yes, but she knows that some days, he does not mean it, but other days, he does. There is also the way Borden got into Sarah's house when they first meant. It is suppose to be just an innocent magic trick. But there is something a lot more to it.
In the actual scene where all of this is explained, Angier is watching Borden get hanged for his own death. Just as Borden dies, a figure appears and shoots Angier. Out of the shadows Borden is seen, very much alive. That is when Angier figures it out. There were always two Alfred Bordens. They were identical twins who pretended to be only one person while the other would be Fallon. They did it all to become the only people in the world to do the transporting man trick. Angier also reveals, as he is dying, that the machine Tesla had made made duplicates of himself. The person who had drowned was another one of Angier's duplicates who he had killed to keep out of the way. I don't know about you, but I saw none of that coming.

The movie I watched was The Prestige. I saw this movie last year, but to be honest I was really confused with the ending. It really made no sense to me. Despite that, I tried watching it again and I am glad I did. This time I actually understood much of the movie that I didn't before. For example, I will not give away the ending because it is way too good, but the way Alfred Borden pulled off the transported man was epic and I never saw it coming. But this time I noticed there were clues through the entire movie. For example, in one scene, number 17, he seems to forget that he promised to take his daughter to the zoo. Of course, you would think that has nothing to do with an illusion and you would think nothing of it. That is the trick to any illusion like the movie say; making people look where they shouldn't be. Another important fact is that Mr. Fallon is in the movie a lot but never talks. Again, a person may find that weird, but it does not mean anything until you actually figure out what is going on.

But this movie does more than explore the complexities of a magic trick. It also has a deep message about obsession and the cost of pursuing it. This message is one repeatedly visited including one scene where Tesla specifically tells Robert Angier that pursuing the secret to the transported man will only cause trouble. I believe this is a lesson we can all learn from since we all at some time try too hard for something we shouldn't. Overall I thought the movie was great but watching it just once is a bad idea.

As a sidenote, much of the movie takes place in Colorado Springs where I use to live. That is awesome.

The David Maraniss article “Winning actually isn't the only thing” was about the Monday Night Football game where the Seahawks beat the Packers due to a bad call made by replacement officials. While much of the article talked about the many people whose mistakes led to his team losing, the argument he made is that the Seahawk’s coach, Pete Carroll, and the Quarterback, Russell Wilson, should not have acted as if they had won the game fairly. According to him, they clearly should have lost and the fact that they pretended that they had deserved a victory showed bad sportsmanship.

                I do agree with the argument made in the article. I saw the game and it was very clear that the packers should have won. Like Maraniss, I was disappointed that members of the Seahawks pretended that they deserved to win. They had to have known that the call was bad. I know it is probably too much to ask these days for someone to acknowledge that they should have lost, but it would have been the right thing for them to do and they know that.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120926/SPORTS/709269933/1004

Macs are the computers that people should use. It is true that PCs are what people are use to, but why? Macs can do things that PCs could never do. I have never been able to use things like logger pro or the new word settings. If people only took a few extra minutes to learn the new computer, they would discover a computer far easier and more useful.

Macs are not good computers. Not at all. PCs are much better. PCs make sense and are easy to use. Macs take hours to figure out. They don't always let open and close files and the scrolling is inverted. What's even the point of that? I don't know who came up with Macs, but they could definately use a lesson or five from PC makers.

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