The Prestige

I realized today why I like this movie so much. Well, one, because Christopher Nolan is probably the most amazing screenwriter and director to ever walk the fact of this earth. But today I remembered a quote from the film that I used in an English paper once. Robert Angier, one of the magicians, says it. And it's how I feel about acting. It's why I act. I'm not particularly good at it, and it terrifies me to no end. But this is why I do it. And this is why I write.

The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special... you really don't know?... it was... it was the look on their faces...