By MANOHLA DARGIS Throughout his career, Christopher Nolan has taken on big stories — though especially those of men, their struggles and their wars — and bent them to his virtuosic will. In movie after movie, in darkness and in light, his characters push against the limits of human endeavor and consciousness, testing themselves much like he tests the possibilities of the medium. If the line in his 2006 drama “The Prestige” about how a magician takes something ordinary and “makes it do…
