After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
This is one of two Christopher Nolan movies, in which a character has a two-headed coin. The other one was The Dark Knight (2008), in which Harvey Dent a.k.a. Two-Face used one to decide his fate, or the fate of his victims.
Alfred Borden:
Are you watching closely?
The English "nonik" pint glasses drunk from a couple of times during the film were introduced in the late 1940s. China mugs would have been most common in the era of the film, but that would have made the see-through-the-bottom feature relevant to those parts of the film impossible. A straight sided conical glass would have been possible at the time.
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