it's less supernatural and more "he's got a machine from a brilliant scientist that is supposed to teleport you, but actually duplicates you"
the build up to it, and the actual reveal were quite well handled I thought.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:14, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

but the fact is
that science is almost as far from us, as it was from the time of the film. So while not supernatural, it was a really lazy way out of a film that was so much about magic and the power of illusion and tricks
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I get your point
but that's in the book as well
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 18:35, Reply)