The opening magic trick with the canary perfectly explains the dark twist of the entire film.

Category: Foreshadowing

Timestamp: 00:05:15

At the very beginning of the film, Cutter's bird-disappearing trick with a young child actually reveals the ending of the entire film from the start. As one bird is crushed to death in the mechanism, another bird, an exact replica, emerges from the jacket. This brutal illusion mechanic is a perfect and terrifying harbinger of Angier's dark "The Real Man Moving Man" trick, where he kills his own clone every night, at the end of the film.

The opening magic trick with the canary perfectly explains the dark twist of the entire film. in The Prestige

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