Sunday, March 25, 2007

To know the Secret or to be Fooled .

Are you watching closely?

Every magic trick consists of three parts. The first part is called ‘The Pledge’ , the magician shows his audience something ordinary , a deck of cards, a bird or a man.

The second part is called ‘The Turn’. The magician takes his ordinary something and turns it into something extraordinary.

Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it because you're not really looking. You don't really want to know the secret... You want to be fooled.

But you wouldn’t clap yet, because making something disappear isn’t enough, you have to bring it back.

That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the most difficult part , the part we call ‘The Prestige’.

The above lines are from the movie “The prestige”. Watch it to test if your brain cells are still working and good enough to work non-stop for 2 hours.
I am getting back to my habit of finding analogy for everything , universal language as Paul Coelho calls it. This might get a bit complicated from here.

The pledge: You meet a person or go to a new place. Only knowledge you have about it is what others say about it or what you assume about it . Its just in the first blink of your eye. It’s the first snapshot of your brain.

The Turn : Your idea shatters , you see white instead of black , you don’t see what you saw earlier. Every thing you assumed or expected goes wrong. You would be too surprised and shocked to react. You will be struck by either awe or grief.

The Prestige: Everything comes back, like a full circle. Like they say, history repeats itself. But how do you see it, do u see it the same way as you saw it during the pledge or do you learn the trick behind the turn.

The point is , are you looking for the secret or do you just want to be fooled?

What is the magic here? It’s the change in life.

Are you watching closely?

4 comments:

arvind....in trans said...

do you see it, do u see it the same way as you saw it during the pledge or do you learn the trick behind the turn.

a very intresting line..
questioning u ,,..are u out of ur deep slumber..to be the difference...

we tend to do this very often,.....almost evry time..

to the habit of finding analogy for everything ...keep penning

The optimist from utopia said...

hmm.. I never thought of it that way. I also sometimes tend to analogise things but not to this extent. Its an interesting analogy.. and the reason I find it interesting is because I've experienced it quite a few times myself.

I watched the movie and it was pretty good.. I believe the multi-faceted personality of every human being was brought out very well in the movie.. or may be its just me.

Mrunalini said...

I loved this movie and the opening lines about bringing back something that had disappeared was my status msg for quite a while :)
Anyways..lovely analogy..
I think u usually learn the trick during the turn and thats how u appreciate the prestige part
u seem to be getting better with each post

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