I think it was Angier who lived, and his clone who died - why would he want to go on if he died? In that case it'd be like him and the actor after all. Question, though: at the very end, was it me imagining things or did the second clone - the third Angier (the first one died when Borden "killed" him, the second [the real Angier - or was that a clone?] when Borden's brother shot him in the warehouse) - blink his eyes? The very last shot of Angier (or clone) standing in the shadows. Or was it in the cupboard. I don't remember. Anyway, did he bilnk his eys? Did he come alive? Was there even something in there that became alive? Because if he did, then it throws up interesting questions of just how many clones there are out there (in the film, anyway) and who then the real Angier was.

So in this case, it would be Angier who cooked up the idea, the main man - of course I am biased by my thinking, that I feel clones cannot think and so all the evidence of intelligence is the real Angier. In going into Tesla's machine, the real Angier comes out in the end (remember, he wanted the machine because he didn't want the actor to be basking in the limelight) and a clone is created, which is then killed by drowning...and because I assume the clone has no intelligence, the clone then has no way of wrecking the party, so to speak.

I am little intrigued too about the end, did one of the clones blinked or something?? I think I saw that