What is the explanation for the ending of the movie The Prestige?
I'm surprised by all the incorrect answers here. This isn't a sci-fi film. There's no “clone.” Tesla was buying duplicate hats and cats to trick Angier into thinking it was a clone and that the machine worked so he'd keep funding it, but Angier eventually figured it out. Angier realized that he had a much better use for his wealth: hire several doubles. Six specifically. Each would have to die (unbeknownst to them) after every run of the trick lest the secret be revealed. Angier had to kill each one. It's why his run of the trick (after the practice run where he shot the first double) was limited to just 5 shows — he could only find so many doubles.Remember: no one cares about the man in the box. So be sure he's the one you kill, or the one your rival wants to kill. It's the same as with the bird. Either you kill it or your rival does in his efforts to sabotage you.Also, remember the lines early in: “Never lose control of your magic trick.” If the machine were creating actual clones, the control would be lost (what do they decide to do, where do they show up). No, those are hired doubles. Plus, the film would be legitimately terrible to use such a bad and impossible 1950s sci-fi gimmick (cloned via simple electricity with the exact clothes and memories? Ummm. Ok).
Explanation of the movie knowing..?
First of all, I would not take the movie that seriously. Yet.. let's follow the reasoning of it. Time as we experience it linearly is in fact not linear. We have to experience it second after second, as we move through our three + 1 dimensions. There's a theory that more dimensions exist, where the time-space as we experience it, looks hopelessly simplified. See flatland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland to get an idea. Now the aliens may be super-dimensional beings that we experience in our three dimensions as appearing for us in a particular shape. For them time is like an old video tape, they can watch it again and again, wind forward, backward etc. To predict then becomes trivial, however intervening is ever-tricky. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox for example). Yes the others responding may be right and the aliens may be representing our creators, or the ones that set the scene for the first of men to establish, keeping an eye on our developments. It is only natural that in such case, we'd perceive their intervening as divine, and the aliens as (scary) angels. For such creatures, I could see how they'd be able to leave messages in our minds, such as the numbers, for those that are perceptive to their signals. The stones to me are flags, they are markers used by the director to impress or awaken the viewer, drawing the attention into the physical realm. It could be litter as a result of the aliens visiting, or left by their intent. As to the world ending for real, I would be stupefied if a movie would be the real message sent to us by our benefactors. More likely, if the world is about to end, indeed a not-so-happy few would be interpreting the signs. Crop-circles, climate changes, Nostradamus - take your pick. Humankind is destined to destroy itself some day. We just cannot see which day that will be. Take care, take it easy.
Movie where man is tricked into giving a kidney to his long lost father?
I can't remember if it was a movie, TV episode, or a online film on Youtube. There was a middle-aged man, whose birth mother finds him and tells him that he was created without the sperm of a man, therefore he had no father. He goes to find his father and they spend time together. When he finds out his father has a problem (I think it's kidneys), he gives one to his father. But when he wakes up, his dad is gone and he realizes that his father used him. He finds out his mother was a part of the whole trick too. He is no longer allowed at his father's house, so he spends everyday sitting in his little car (I think it's red) outside of the house. He meets a woman, who is the coordinator in a support group he goes to, that talks about having things regrettably taken from them and never returned. He leaves her bed every night to sit in front of his dad's house, and she forces him to choose between her and his dad. I can't remember anything else. Do you know what this show/movie/clip was called?