Our second Christopher Nolan movie, The Prestige “follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London. Obsessed with creating the best stage illusion, they engage in competitive one-upmanship with tragic results.”
Like Memento, the movie plays with our conception of time and ends with a twist. You’ll probably want to watch it twice!
The movie [...]
May 16, 2008
Categories: movies . Tags: historical, London, metaphor, mystery, revenge, supernatural, twist ending . Author: setipensteven . Comments: Leave a Comment
November 22nd is Turkey Day (Thanksgiving) here in the US, but the SAC Movie continues nonetheless with the final movie in David Fincher month. Zodiac is another Fincher movie about a serial killer, but this time Fincher focuses much less on the killing and much more on the detective story and mystery surrounding the [...]
November 22, 2007
Categories: movies . Tags: crime, mystery, San Francisco, true story . Author: setipensteven . Comments: 1 Comment
One of the all-time great thrillers and crime films, Se7en (or “Seven”) is the film that elevated David Fincher to great director status. It also gave its stars, Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, newfound popularity. In the film, Pitt plays a new detective in a big American city where Freeman has been working [...]
November 6, 2007
Categories: movies . Tags: crime, metaphor, mystery, religion, the classics, thriller, twist ending, violence . Author: setipensteven . Comments: 7 Comments