History TearJerker / ThePrestige

* Julia's [[DrowningPit death]] and subsequent funeral. It's utterly tragic seeing the effect her passing left on the two main characters, with her husband descending into madness and obsession from the grief and her friend wracked with guilt from the knot ''she asked for''. And when a rage and grief-stricken Angier demands, "Which knot did you tie, Borden?", the distraught Borden genuinely doesn't know - his more aggressive twin brother is the one who tied the knot.

* Julia's [[DrowningPit death]] and subsequent funeral. It's utterly tragic seeing the effect her passing left on the two main characters, with her husband descending into madness and obsession from the grief and her friend wracked with guilt from the knot ''she asked for''.
** "Which knot did you tie, Borden?"
* Sarah. Just. ''Sarah''. Not only did she ''accept'' that her husband apparently only loved her half time [[spoiler: even though that wasn't true]] and continued to stay with Borden despite her unhappiness, she [[spoiler: eventually kills herself from the agony after a particularly bad fight with "Freddie".]]

* On a second viewing [[spoiler: Borden and Fallon's final goodbye]] is heartbreaking.

* [[spoiler: Angier's death]] and his parting words with Borden. Even after everything he did, you can't help but weep.

* Angier lets slip that he cares more about figuring out Borden's trick than his wife's death. Showing just how powerful his obsession had become.
* During the fight scene between Borden and Sarah, Jess is listening outside the door. The resigned look on her face shows this is not the first time she had seen and heard her parents arguing like this.

* Angier let's slip that he cares more about figuring out Borden's trick than his wife's death. Showing just how powerful his obsession had become.

* [[spoiler: Angier's death]] and his [[WorldOfCardboardSpeech parting words with Borden]].. Even after everything he did, you can't help but weep.

--> Sarah: I want you to be honest... no tricks... no ''lies''. Do you love me?
--> Borden: *beat* No. Not today.

--> Angier: He had the happiness that should've been mine.

--> Angier: You never understood, why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special... you really don't know?... it was... it was the look on their faces...
* Angier let's slip that he cares more about figuring out Borden's trick than his wife's death. Showing just how powerful his obsession had become.

--> Angier: You never understood, why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special... you really don't know?... it was... it was the look on their faces...

* [[spoiler: Angier's [[spoiler: death]] and his [[WorldOfCardboardSpeech parting words with Borden]].. Even after everything he did, you can't help but weep.

* [[spoiler: Angier's [[spoiler: death]] and his [[WorldOfCarboardSpeech parting words with Borden]].. Even after everything he did, you can't help but weep.