The Prestige is one of those movies where I'm fascinated by the plot and premise, but the movie itself doesn't really grab me the way I whish it would. Good commentary though.

And I don't like that the machine works...

I had never seen the Prestige till last night (31st Jan) so I could listen to the commentary afterwards. I knew nothing of the film but I spotted the truth about 'Fallon' from the start. Not boasting or being smug, I'm really pissed off at myself that I did!

Anyway, I liked the film but I agree with Zarban's comments above. Plus, on the comm, you guys talk about the wife's knowledge of the scam but she obviously knew of the twins early on due to the fact that she helps with the cutting off the fingers. Great comm as usual guys, you magnificent bastards

Here I thought I was the only one that had a problem with the machine just working as advertised. I had no idea it was such a widespread gripe.

I was afraid of being a lone voice in the wilderness, the victim of a pile on of everyone else singing Prestige's unblemished genius.

Had I known, I wouldn't have been so timid about it.

Ah well, screw "The Prestige." It's a stupid movie, devoid of all merit!

That's correct, we only see her tending to his wound wondering why it hasn't healed as much as one would expect.

Of course, if she were tending to both their wounds on a regular basis, wouldn't she have noticed that it went back and forth repeatedly?

@Brian: I always got the impression that they pretty much did it right after the first brother had to get them amputated. So that it would at least, to her, just look like the wound had just reopened and was taking a while to heal.
I don't think that they would have waited til it had healed fully to do it, one because of the whole wife thing, but then also because they are already so committed to the trick, that they wouldn't want to leave any discrepancy between them for too long.

Just so you know, it's CHUNG Ling Soo, not CHING.
"Ching" Ling "Foo" was a real Chinese magician that feuded with Chung.

That's a really great point. The only real answer that I can think of is "He was obsessed. Shit happens." I'd never considered that aspect of his character in retrospect before, good catch.

It's part of his character arc, when Cutter is demonstrating the new bird cage trick to Angier he implies that the new trick will kill the bird and that he will only get anywhere in this business if he gets his hands dirty (or something to that effect), Angier gives in and performs the trick, thinking that he is killing the bird. When he asks Cutter why, he says 'I just had to know you could". And this theme continues until we come to where he is at the end of the movie so obsessed with the new trick that he allows himself to literally be the bird in the cage that he kills in order for the trick to happen.

Is that Crispin freakin' Glover!?

/Z