The Prestige.2006.BDRip.XviD by MRA7

The story is told in a non-linear manner. The following is a linear, chronological summary of the plot:
Magician Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) is sentenced for the murder of rival Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman). Both were assistants for "Milton the Magician" (Ricky Jay) with ingénieur John Cutter (Michael Caine). Angier's wife Julia (Piper Perabo) drowned performing a water cell act and Angier blames Borden, who professes not to remember if he had tied her with an inappropriate knot. The two become bitter competitors, disrupting each other's acts. Borden becomes "The Professor" with the enigmatic Bernard Fallon as his ingénieur while Angier becomes "The Great Danton" with the lovely Olivia Wenscombe (Scarlett Johansson) and Cutter assisting. The magic trick from the beginning of the movie is explained: the original bird is crushed and replaced with a double. Angier is incensed when Borden meets and marries Sarah (Rebecca Hall) and they have a daughter, Jess (Samantha Mahurin). Angier sabotages Borden's bullet catch, costing Borden two fingers. Borden then ruins Angier's victimless bird cage act, maiming an audience member, killing the dove, and damaging Angier's reputation.
Borden soon begins performing an impressive trick called The Transported Man, where he enters one cabinet and exits another across the stage a moment later. Angier and Cutter argue over how it was done, with Cutter insists that Borden is using a double, an answer Angier refuses to accept. Angier begins performing his own version of the trick using a lookalike named Root (also Jackman). The act is a hit, but requires Angier to end up below the stage while Root receives the adoration of the crowd.
Angier sends Olivia to discover Borden’s secret, but she has grown tired of his obsession and betrays him to Borden, with whom she soon begins an affair. Olivia delivers an encoded diary of Borden's to Angier which supposedly contains the secret to his trick. Angier and Cutter kidnap Fallon to force Borden to give them the key to the cypher. Upon learning that the key word is "Tesla", Angier travels to Colorado Springs to meet with Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) and enlists the inventor to make a teleportation machine for him. Meanwhile, Borden's marriage has begun to fray due to his obsession with magic and Angier. After an angry confrontation, Sarah hangs herself.
Angier finishes deciphering Borden's diary to discover it's a fraud that Borden deliberately had Olivia give him. When a test of the machine appears to fail he angrily accuses Tesla of embezzling his money to pay for other experiments. However, he and Tesla soon discover that the machine works, just not as a teleporter. Instead it creates duplicates at some distance from the machine.
Angier returns to London, electrifying audiences with The Real Transported Man, vanishing within the machine and reappearing in the back of the hall. In reality, the machine creates a duplicate. The film doesn't clarify whether the original Angier is teleported or remains in the machine, but the one left in the machine falls through a trap door and plunges into a water cell, drowning. The tanks are disposed of by blind stage hands every night.
Borden witnesses Angier drown while snooping backstage and tries to save him but is caught and convicted of murder (in the opening of the film). In prison, Borden is visited by the agent of a Lord Caldlow, who offers to care for Borden's daughter Jess in exchange for Borden's secrets. Borden is given Angier's diary, and finds his conviction has been orchestrated. When Lord Caldlow arrives to collect the secrets, Borden discovers he is actually Angier, somehow still alive. Borden attempts to give them but Caldlow rips them to pieces without reading them, before leaving with Jess. In a final visit, Borden tells Fallon to live for them both, and is hanged.
Cutter learns that Caldlow has bought all of Angier's tricks, including the machine, and visits Caldlow's estate to plead for its destruction. He recognizes Angier, who admits he has always been Lord Caldlow, but pretended to be the American Robert Angier, to spare his family the embarrassment of his theatrical career. Cutter realizes Borden's death was planned but, unable to have Caldlow come forward, accompanies him to store Tesla's machine beneath his theatre among the tanks previously used for the duplicates.
On his way out, Cutter recognizes and nods to Fallon as Fallon enters and shoots Caldlow. Fallon's disguise removed, he tells the dying Caldlow that he and Borden were identical twins who shared their lives on stage and off. He removed the ends of his own fingers to duplicate Borden's injury and the two shared lovers to maintain the illusion of being a single man. Fallon reveals they each loved one woman. Borden loved their mistress Olivia, while Fallon loved their late wife Sarah. Caldlow reveals his machine's own trick, repeatedly recreating Julia's suffering in order to bask in the admiration of the crowd.
Borden leaves Caldlow/Angier to die as a fire consumes the building. The first scene of the film replays, with the magician (now known to be Cutter) vanishing (killing) the bird for the delight of the little girl (Jess). This time, the scene continues and Fallon/Borden appears to reclaim his daughter.