🎩🪄 The Prestige - how far would you go to win the illusion?

**Movie discussion - watch the full film beforehand. Full spoilers, no screening.**

**What this is**

Christopher Nolan’s **The Prestige** starts as a rivalry between two Victorian magicians.

Then it gets meaner.

Two men chase the perfect illusion and slowly give more of themselves to the trick: their relationships, their identities, their decency, their ability to stop. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale are both excellent, but the real pull is watching obsession become a kind of prison with applause at the end.

This fits our October run around illusion, belief, identity, and what people are willing to accept if the performance is convincing enough.

**A few questions for the room**

* “At what point does dedication become self-destruction?”

* “Is the real trick the illusion, or the identity someone builds around it?”

* “Who pays the highest price for being believed?”

**When and where**

🗓️ **Date:** Sunday, October 18th, 2026

🕒 **Time:** 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

📍 **Location:** Vancouv