A trained hypnotist takes issue with Hypnotic.
opens on Friday, May 12, and goddamn does it look silly as hell. While it’s clearly aiming to be the nextThe film follows Rourke , a cop who is dealing with the trauma of his missing daughter when he is called to the scene of a bank heist. While there, a mysterious man begins hypnotizing random people to act strangely in order to facilitate the crime. Eventually, it all ties back to a government conspiracy about creating superpowered mind controllers.
Absolute mental control over someone is impossible. Even great historical brainwashers like Charles Manson required months of isolation, domination, and substance use to convince his followers to kill, and even then a fair number of them refused on multiple occasions. That scene in the trailer where the man convinces a woman she’s overheated and she starts shedding her clothes in public? A skilled hypnotist might be able to make a person sweat a bit, but that’s the end of it.
That said, it’s just a game of pretend, and it can’t stand rise to the level of fully created world. For one, a hypnotist simply can’t account for the all the random variables to maintain the illusion. I’ve sent so many people to so many peaceful beaches, but if I say the beach is sand when in their mind it’s rocky, I can literally watch the loss of the hypnotic state in their face.-like worlds are created.
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