Quote: Jeremy said: Neither does the audience. I watched it again last night and noticed things that I missed before. Like all the tanks with the dead doubles (I now think one of them was the original Angier). And how when Angier and Borden finally get each others secrets in their hands, they act like they don't care. As obsessed as they were, they still didn't want to see the truth.
Of course one was the original!
The only way for the original Angier to survive would have been to clone himself prior to doint the trick, then only ever let the clones do the trick, meaning there would always have to be two Angiers. Angier (the original) would not have been able to stand by and watch the clones do the trick, as we already saw how badly he hated taking the applause from under the stage!
The original Angier was willing to sacrifice everything for that trick, even his own life, especially as as far as the clones were concerned, they just took over where the previous Angier left off, retaining all their memories!
