The movie starts of with some
street magic and mentalism played on some unsuspecting victims. The four
horsemen are gifted magicians and mentalists. They each discover that they have
been chosen to join a secret organization, but first they need to pass a test.
They need to have perfect faith that they will succeed at the test in order to
join the Eye. Which is a magical organization much like fraternities and
sororities in universities, but this organization is codified in true magical
and mystical esoteric fashion. This organization is part of the western
esoteric tradition of magic and occultism. The Knights Templar comes to mind. And
in fact the four protagonists are known as the four horsemen.
The four horsemen possess
certain magical powers, that consist of elaborately planned illusions as well
as very real psychic mentalism and magic. The four members are chosen to be
part of a magical esoteric organization known as the Eye. The members each have
a capacity for knowing way beyond the capacity of most people. They have access
to a field of psychic knowing especially one character in particular who is a
mentalist, who relies mostly on the psychic dimension to divine facts about his
environment and the people within his environment. He also has the capacity to hypnotize
individuals as well as mass numbers of individuals.
The magicians use misdirection
to deceive their audiences that the trick is happening in one location when
they are actually happening somewhere else. They understand the power of
illusion and how it is virtually impossible for anyone to find out how they do
their tricks. This is where morgan freeman steps in and assumes the role of
trying to debunk the magic of the four horsemen.
The magicians are so advanced
intellectually and technologically that they are able to use the
inter-connectivity of the world wide web and its application to cellular
technology in the most creative ways. They must perform their miraculous feats
in blind obedience to the eye, in order to succeed in their mission. They are
being protected by an unknown force that is watching their every move, this
unknown force we later find out to be the Eye itself. But they don’t know where
the Eye is or how to contact it, they must trust that they are being looked
after and that no matter what they will be okay.
Rohan Ravi
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