Essentially the people have the ability to rewind and fast forward time. To go back or forward in time you need to go through an entrance, red means forward, blue means backwards. Their weapons and bullets have the ability to do this by themselves. The bad group wants to acquire the original source of this power and rewind the entire earth to undo climate change, the good guys believe this would destroy the world instead of saving it. The protagonist is the creator of the group in the future, but sends his associates back in time to recruit his younger self and put an end to this group. The main way they attack in this movie is by one team attacking at one point in time and another team attacking backwards in time. Eventually, the bad guys get all parts of this source and begin the process to reverse all of Earth, but the protagonist wins in the end. This is when its revealed he recruited all these people in the future to save the world, making the ending also the beginning.
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_number8_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i really hate that shit where they intentionally cut the movie in a really shitty annoying confusing way just to make the story ostensibly more cOmPleX rather than just writing something good and relying on its strength like a normal good film
the prestige really pissed me off
yeather@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Thank you. Also WTF. I did not pick up any of that and I think I’ve seen it three times.
yeather@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The movie gets a lot easier to understand when you figure out the red and blue thing.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What pissed me off is that in a time travel movie where the end is also the beginning, the climax should be the opening scene again (the theater assault) but now viewed with more information showing how the whole loop tied up.
Instead we just got some bang bang explosion shit because someone gave Nolan too big of a budget and he he was damn determined to use it after being inspired by his rewind button on his VCR.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I kind of understood it, until the ship scene near the end, when there were two Debickis going FORWARD in time, slightly offset from each other. If they can do THAT, why not do it all the time? Why make people go backwards in time, breathe inverted air, and none of the protagonists have a grasp on what’s going on anyway?
yeather@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Im pretty sure one Debickis was actually moving backwards it just wasn’t as clear
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait till you watch Memento
Pinecone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Prestige was one of the most comprehensible movies Nolan ever made…