Trance (trailer)

Fri, Jan 11, 2013

Danny Boyle has a new movie, and it looks like fun! Art theft and hypnosis… but is the film going to repeat the old canard that a person can be convinced to do something under hynosis he wouldn’t normally do?

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Paul Wartenberg

Fri, Jan 11, 2013 2:39pm

The trick is to make the hypnotized person believe they are doing something mundane. It would be hard to convince a person to say commit a murder (because it involves certain actions or tools that a reasonable person knows isn’t mundane) but it is within reason to put a person under hypnosis and have them give you a keycode under the belief that the keycode is a friend’s phone number.

RogerBW

Sat, Jan 12, 2013 10:54pm

It looks interesting, at least, and while I’m not Boyle’s biggest fan he’s always got something to say. I’m prepared to put up with real-world impossibilities (if I weren’t, I’d never watch films at all) as long as they’re portrayed consistently.