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Derren Brown isn't as interesting (IMHO). He doesn't mind using camera tricks (e.g. his lotto prediction) and for me, that doesn't feel very clever.



Go see his live on stage shows. no camera tricks there.


I'd have to agree with you about his magic tricks. He doea blur the lines a lot and it's hard to see what he really did. In that sense all of his act is a huge demonstration of misdirection. But when it comes to hypnosis, I've never seen anything more impressive


That's because some of the people he hypnotizes are just stooges.

Ever see his show where over weeks he hypnotized and conditioned normal people to rob a bank (The Heist)? They were actors. :(


What gets me is that anybody would even believe something like that was real.


I can't find any source for this random comment's claim that they were actors, which seems like it would be pretty easy to prove. I think you've been bamboozled.


Why wouldn't it be real? Hypnosis does work.


Hypnosis only works if the hypnotee wants to be hypnotized or feel social pressure to play along, not what lay people usually think hypnotism means.


Do you have any evidence or source for this or are we expected to believe a comment from a random person on the internet ?


No they weren't?




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