comments are closed on this review, click here for worldwidereview home
From: JJ
Category: Other stuff
Date: 01 October 2003
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/D/david_blaine/ or http://www.davidblaine.com Go see the magic man in his perspex box craned 60 foot in the air across the river from that other prison, the tower of London. He's not eating anything for 44 days, but that seems hardly important. It's the spectacle you see. Why? Because there is beauty in the out of the ordinary, in the people drawn to the freak show, in the idea that a person can do something (a real person not an image on tv) which fascinates other people. The wonder which this quite stupid act causes, makes one question what effect a really amazing thing could have. His importance is in his proclamation of individual will and power, and he attracts those with none: losers, wannabes, and the dispossessed homeless.
comments are closed on this review, click here for worldwidereview home