# Questions about "The Prestige" -- unboxed spoilers

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**Created:** [August 27, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-the-prestige-unboxed-spoilers/417054 "2007-08-27T04:48:58Z")\
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[QUOTE=Alessan]  
I agree, and that’s basically my point: that the drowned Angiers weren’t “duplicates,” and that he was, in a very real sense, committing suicide every night.  
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Yes. I think at the very end he tries to show Borden how committed he was by saying something like “You don’t know what it was like, convincing myself every night that I would be the Prestige and not the man in the box.”

He knew that “he” would have the subjective experience of falling through a trapdoor into a tank of water, and drowing without hope of escape.\* When we see Borden below stage trying to break the tank open, Angier is struggling hard and begging to be saved.

\*Simultaneously, “he” is also having the subjective experience of stepping into the electricity and suddenly finding himself at the back of the theatre.

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