chaostrick reblogged
Right at the end, and this is something that Jonah very much put into the script before I took it over, there’s this moment that he absolutely nailed—that I absolutely love. ‘The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It’s miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, then you get to see something really special…it was the looks on their faces.’ When I first read that in the script, I was like, ‘That’s great.’ He’s talking about the nature of magic and how you can make people believe there’s more to it. I think that’s exactly what a great film will reveal, which is always, the world is way fucking worse than you think it is and you missed it. It should be depressing. The reason it’s not is, we want the world to be more complicated than it is. It’s pleasurable, because what it’s really saying is there’s more to this place than meets the eye. You don’t want to know the limits of your world. You don’t want to feel this is all there is. I make films that are huge endorsements of the idea that there’s more to our world than meets the eye. - Christopher Nolan
The Prestige (2006) dir. Christopher Nolan
Source: nakedhiddles
