Derren Brown: Miracle

Name: Derren Brown: Miracle
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-10-10
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Derren Brown

TV Special
20162016
1h 13min

6.6/10

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Derren Brown in Derren Brown: Miracle (2016)

Documentary

Illusionist Derren Brown reinvents the concept of "faith healing" through a series of stunts that debunk the confines of fear, pain and disbelief.Illusionist Derren Brown reinvents the concept of "faith healing" through a series of stunts that debunk the confines of fear, pain and disbelief.Illusionist Derren Brown reinvents the concept of "faith healing" through a series of stunts that debunk the confines of fear, pain and disbelief.

6.6/10

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Directors
- Julia Knowles
- John L. Spencer
Writers
Star
- Derren Brown

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- John L. Spencer
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Illusionist Derren Brown reinvents the concept of "faith healing" through a series of stunts that debunk the confines of fear, pain and disbelief.

tv special

Genre
- Documentary
Parents guide

Goofs
Derren references the unbroken genetic chain from the people sitting in the audience all the way back to the first single-celled organism "seven billion years ago."

Single-celled organisms didn't evolve until 3.5 billion years ago, and, in fact, the Earth itself didn't form until 4.5 billion years ago.

Quotes
Derren Brown: This is the one life and the one body we have. We can tell ourselves a different story about it at least.
Derren Brown: We can be kinder to ourselves and therefore to others as well because we are all doing it.
Derren Brown: We're all telling ourselves those unhelpful stories, all of us.
Derren Brown: Everyone you meet is dragging around their own heavy case of bricks.
Derren Brown: What's important though is to mentally stop time and return to that present moment and how we're treating ourselves and each other in the moment.
Derren Brown: Because it's only the present moment that has the power to be utterly compelling and rich and vibrant as if that moment were you're first.
Derren Brown: Or as if it were you last.
Derren Brown: You are the miracle!

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2/10

Skepticism?

In this very staged "live" performance, Derren Brown claims to be a skeptic, bad-mouths faith healing, rattles off what I assume are jokes, and performs what actually amounts to faith healing himself. I really hope the people he "healed" were plants because if they were credulous audience members, he played a very mean trick on them in convincing them that he had cured their ailments. Unfortunately, the tricks were old cliches, the humor fell flat, mostly because you couldn't keep up with the nonsense he was babbling, and the claim of skepticism was tainted by his "if you believe it, it's true" presentation. No. If it isn't true, it isn't true, no matter what you believe, and this hack is lying to you.

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