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Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'

I watched this based on a tweet from Henry Winkler (Barry, Happy Days). I knew nothing about it other than Mr Winkler liked it. The show is an exercise in identity and includes some phenomenal sleights of hand. The camera is close up on Derek&#39;s hands and his skills are amazing. Spoilers
The story that ties the different facets of Derek&#39;s life together to help us learn his journey is too disjointed to adequately provide a smooth transition from one segment to the next. The two segments that were the most impressive (other than his card handling) were when people randomly selected from the audience randomly select a letter from a pile and then read it to themselves and then out loud. Many of them burst into tears reading these letters, and we learn that they are from their relatives or friends. So, not really random at all. This viewer felt manipulated since the method of the selection appeared random, but clearly some clever behind the scenes work made sure these letters were made well in advance and would wind up as planned in the hands of those &quot;random&quot; people. The second impressive thing was the end, when Derek somehow was able to assign each I AM card to the exact audience member with 100% accuracy. Amazing trick and or memory exercise or both. I believe I saw David Blaine, Bill Gates and Tom Ford participating in the audience. That was interesting but also made it feel even more of a trick than some personal identity epiphany. Bottom line, some really good moments with over-dramatic staging.

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In & Of Itself

Well, I know some people will really like this movie but I&#39;m not one of them. The film itself is considered a documentary, but I don&#39;t consider it that, but rather a performance art meets Tony Robbins self-help seminar Meets magic show meets The Moth storytellers. While the Gambler story was entertaining on its own and it was interesting to hear about his lesbian mother and how we dealt with it as a whole I didn&#39;t think the whole thing came together, but rather a garbled pretentious collection of stories and self-discovery to make people feel good and cry with a little bit of trickery and slight of hand. The Cameo of David Blaine and him crying because he called him a brother, and I swear I saw Bill Gates professing himself as a leader and the audience to but that might just be my imagination. These cameos alone I found cheesy and took me out of the film altogether. I&#39;m not the kind of person that likes to be forced to feel things, and this film felt like it was trying way too hard to be emotional, a little bit heavy-handed for my taste.

Lots of disjointed parts to a story that don&#39;t really have anything to do with each other... what&#39;s the log book about with respect to the roulitest or the time between dog and wolf.... its just disjointed tripe that doesnt deliver an overall encompassing story. Lots of irrelevant parts to the show are dressed up as profound revelations that we ought to think deeply about but they really have no profound meaning. I did appreciate the performance and it is a polished delivery. The magic is decent but the teary eyed audience are just desperate to find meaning in anything. They are wrapped up in the moment ok but it&#39;s all a bit pathetic.

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In & Of Itself

Interesting performance art

A tad pretentious

All seems a bit contrived

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