He proposes, she accepts with a spirit knock, and they kiss. He is then surprised when Sophie, who had arrived before him, knocks a spirit knock. Returning dejected to Aunt Vanessa's, Stanley admits that he fell in love with Sophie at first sight. Sophie is taken aback and rejects his haughty, awkward proposal. He finds her and asks her to marry him instead of Brice. In a conversation with Aunt Vanessa, who has recovered from her car accident, Stanley admits that he is in love with Sophie. Stanley is initially angry at Howard and Sophie, but decides to forgive them. Rather than unmask her to stop the ruse, he enlisted Sophie to help him one-up Stanley.
Sophie is indeed a charlatan, and Howard had found out. He discovers Sophie was able to know so much about him and his aunt because she and Howard collaborated to fool Stanley. Using a trick seen earlier in his stage act, Stanley appears to leave the room but stays to overhear Sophie and Howard discuss their collusion in what has been an elaborate ruse. He decides once more to prove she is a fraud. He rejects prayer, the supernatural and by extension, Sophie and her powers. Stanley rushes to the hospital, and considers turning to prayer for solace he begins to pray for a miracle to save his aunt, but is unable to go through with it as the rationality that has been his whole life comes back. The conference is interrupted when he receives news that Aunt Vanessa has been in a car accident. The next day Stanley holds a press conference to tell the world that he, who spent his life debunking charlatan mystics, has finally come to find one who is the real deal. Stanley is taken aback and admits he has not thought of her in that way. As they walk together later that night, Sophie asks him if he has felt any feelings for her "as a woman". After the rain subsides, they open the roof up and view the stars.Īt a Gatsby-esque party, Stanley and Sophie dance.
When caught in a rain storm, Stanley and Sophie end up at an observatory the former had visited as a child. He has an epiphany, realizing that his lifelong rationalism and cynicism have been misguided.
This finally convinces Stanley of Sophie's authenticity. When Stanley and Sophie visit his Aunt Vanessa ( Eileen Atkins), Sophie is seemingly able, after holding Aunt Vanessa's pearls, to somehow relate secret details of Vanessa's great love affair. A candle floats up from the table and Howard grabs it to try to discern what trickery is at play, but is astounded to find no apparent subterfuge. Stanley witnesses a seance in which Sophie communicates with the deceased patriarch of the American family. Howard and Stanley travel to the French Riviera, but Stanley is soon astonished by Sophie's ability to go into a fugue state and apparently pull out highly personal details about him and his family. He asks Stanley, who has debunked many charlatan mystics, to help him prove she is a fraud. Howard said he has been unable to uncover the secrets behind Sophie's tricks, and is tempted to believe she really has supernatural powers. Howard enlists Stanley to go with him to the Côte d'Azur, where a rich American family, the Catledges, has apparently been taken in by a clairvoyant, Sophie ( Emma Stone) the son of the family, Brice ( Hamish Linklater), is smitten with her. In his dressing-room, he is greeted by old friend and fellow illusionist Howard Burkan ( Simon McBurney). Soo is actually a British man named Stanley ( Colin Firth), who wears a disguise in his act. In 1928, an illusionist, Wei Ling Soo, performs in front of a crowd in Berlin with his world-class magic act.
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