Derren Brown created an illusion for a guy that the end of the world really happened.
Watch here:
P1 Derren Brown: Apocalypse Episode One - YouTube
(For some reason it's not embedding for me)
From the Mirror:
It had the premise of a Saw film - chilling, thrilling and at times, truly torturous.
The only initially apparent difference between the series of gruesome movies and Derren Brown's - Apocalypse was the pedantic showman didn't chillingly tell his victim, "I want to play a game."
Derren persuaded one man to believe the world had ended after a meteorite shower had crashed into the earth, leaving only a few survivors.
And most of the survivors had turned into infected zombies after a virus had spread through society and the world as we know it now was gone.
It's like Friends being cancelled on Channel Four all over again.
The case study (poor sod) who was chosen was a complacent twenty-something who took his life for granted.
His outlook was so bad that it wasn't a case of the glass being half-empty, it was whether there was even a glass there at all.
His own mother was brought to tears describing his emptiness and admitted the pain that there's no love between them anymore.
His mates joked about the time he cleaned ovens for Dominos Pizza, you could argue his world was already over.
But Derren's work is more than a mischievous sleight of hand trick or astonishing mind f**kery where he correctly guesses how many lives your cat has left - it's art.
He quoted Roman philosopher Seneca's ideology that the only way to appreciate what you've got is to vividly imagine losing it all. Your partner, your family, friends, house, car. Gone.
Try it yourself, it’s an utterly rubbish feeling and if there’s nothing else that will motivate you to wash your BMW, then hope is lost.
Derren described the subject of the experiment, Steven, as - "Stuck in a rut but lacks the motivation to do anything about it," and was about to experience loss in the biggest scale.
Steven woke up in what he believed was a treatment centre for healthy survivors after weeks of strategically placed and completely false news reports, radio broadcasts and television segments that planted the seed in his brain that the end was, er, nigh.
His phone was hacked (shouldn't there be some kind of enquiry into this?) to embed tweets and messages on the websites Steven visits to support the severity of what was about to happen.
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Now there have been rumors going around that the guy was really an actor etc.. However, he responds to those rumors here: Derren Brown hits out at 'fake' Apocalypse rumours... as he posts video debunking conspiracy theories | Mail Online
All, in all - worth watching...
Watch here:
P1 Derren Brown: Apocalypse Episode One - YouTube
(For some reason it's not embedding for me)
From the Mirror:
It had the premise of a Saw film - chilling, thrilling and at times, truly torturous.
The only initially apparent difference between the series of gruesome movies and Derren Brown's - Apocalypse was the pedantic showman didn't chillingly tell his victim, "I want to play a game."
Derren persuaded one man to believe the world had ended after a meteorite shower had crashed into the earth, leaving only a few survivors.
And most of the survivors had turned into infected zombies after a virus had spread through society and the world as we know it now was gone.
It's like Friends being cancelled on Channel Four all over again.
The case study (poor sod) who was chosen was a complacent twenty-something who took his life for granted.
His outlook was so bad that it wasn't a case of the glass being half-empty, it was whether there was even a glass there at all.
His own mother was brought to tears describing his emptiness and admitted the pain that there's no love between them anymore.
His mates joked about the time he cleaned ovens for Dominos Pizza, you could argue his world was already over.
But Derren's work is more than a mischievous sleight of hand trick or astonishing mind f**kery where he correctly guesses how many lives your cat has left - it's art.
He quoted Roman philosopher Seneca's ideology that the only way to appreciate what you've got is to vividly imagine losing it all. Your partner, your family, friends, house, car. Gone.
Try it yourself, it’s an utterly rubbish feeling and if there’s nothing else that will motivate you to wash your BMW, then hope is lost.
Derren described the subject of the experiment, Steven, as - "Stuck in a rut but lacks the motivation to do anything about it," and was about to experience loss in the biggest scale.
Steven woke up in what he believed was a treatment centre for healthy survivors after weeks of strategically placed and completely false news reports, radio broadcasts and television segments that planted the seed in his brain that the end was, er, nigh.
His phone was hacked (shouldn't there be some kind of enquiry into this?) to embed tweets and messages on the websites Steven visits to support the severity of what was about to happen.
..
Now there have been rumors going around that the guy was really an actor etc.. However, he responds to those rumors here: Derren Brown hits out at 'fake' Apocalypse rumours... as he posts video debunking conspiracy theories | Mail Online
All, in all - worth watching...
