• randomsnark@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s a fictional diary entry, from The Prestige. The next entry is 2 months later, when he’s fallen in love with a different woman.

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            Oh I didn’t know that was based on a novel, thanks! But that entry must be meant to be hilarious, was the novel comedic?

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              The novel is made extra strange by a modern day framing story starting the last living ancestors of the two magicians. I read it 20+ years ago and remembered it as a strange book. The movie was excellent and made the whole story make much more sense overall.

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              I haven’t actually read the novel version, just seen the movie enough times to know this wasn’t in it and that there was a novel