The Prestige
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Motivation
Andrea
Sep 01, 2011 01:34PM
I was wondering why the father threw the baby Nicky into the maching knowing it would "kill" him? An old rivalry between ancestors doesn't seem like a reason to murder a child. Was he just a bad man? Or did I miss something there?
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***Warning Spoilers***
The father didn't murder the child, the child was replicated. What was left was the "prestige materials" which are the image of a dead Nicky. What the daughter did not witness was that Nicky had been perfectly reproduced on the other end of the machine with all memories in tact and bodily perfect and living.
But I agree the act was certainly very cruel in the extreme.
The father didn't murder the child, the child was replicated. What was left was the "prestige materials" which are the image of a dead Nicky. What the daughter did not witness was that Nicky had been perfectly reproduced on the other end of the machine with all memories in tact and bodily perfect and living.
But I agree the act was certainly very cruel in the extreme.
Presumably though, Kate Angier's father knows of all the prestige materials (After all, they are in his own family vault) and has had to live with them and whatever else is there.
Now Borden's descendant comes in demanding to know the secret. The father is angry for having kept a secret for so long that has only caused him anguish, and he wants Borden's grandson to feel the same anguish. He knows he's not murdering his (Borden's) child, only using it, for effect, so to say, to hurt borden's grandson
Now Borden's descendant comes in demanding to know the secret. The father is angry for having kept a secret for so long that has only caused him anguish, and he wants Borden's grandson to feel the same anguish. He knows he's not murdering his (Borden's) child, only using it, for effect, so to say, to hurt borden's grandson
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