I recently went and saw the film “Now You See Me” which I was pretty excited for considering I love magicians. It had nothing on the prestige, although I still reallllly enjoyed it, just because any trick a magician does whether it is an elaborate underwater cage escape or a simple card trick, freaks me out (in a good way).
Has anyone seen Dynamo on TV? If you haven’t I recommend you YouTube him right now. RIGHT NOW. He’s amazing. He has me convinced that he’s a wizard. He must have some sort of degree in black magic. He performs street magic by approaching random people in the street. He moves tan lines up people’s arms or makes objects disappear right in front of your eyes. What I said right there wasn’t even very impressive but I assure you if you watch an episode of his show you’ll be mind blown.
A while ago I watched a magician live performance. There was this certain trick that stuck with me. I cannot figure out how it was even slightly possible. The magician got an audience member to sign a piece of paper. The magician then grabbed a banana, peeled it, cut it in half and in the middle of the banana he pulled out a piece of paper. The signed piece of paper. My face was like…
THAT DOESN’T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE.
In today’s society we are always told that there is a rational explanation for everything and that is why I find magicians like these so fascinating. In our minds we know that magic does not exist, however what we are presented with before our eyes seems to have no other explanation. It takes me back to when I was a child and I didn’t really understand the world around me which led me to believe all sorts of crazy things like monsters and all that stuff. Magicians are a flicker of childhood, a flicker of imagination. Something that twists everything I believed in before and now makes me question whether my eyes are decieving me. How did that tan line move up the girls arm? How did the piece of paper get inside the banana? As much as I am dying to find out, I’d rather not know. Although the world now seems to have a thirst for reality. News programs are always hunting down figures to the decimal point. “What is your microwave really doing to you and your family?” “Are your supermarkets scamming you?”. At the end of the day I think adults enjoy watching someone perform that brings back that nostalgic feeling of childhood.
Anyway I am tempted to drop out of uni and become a magician’s apprentice and learn all of their secrets and become the most mysterious person in the world.