Hypnotist in Cinema Tried to Erase Viewers' Memories of a Film so They Would Watch It as if for the First Time: "It Was Fun"
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In a cinema in The Hague, visitors are put under hypnosis so that they forget their favorite film and can experience it again as ‘new’. “The danger is that it starts to resemble a circus act. Whereas hypnosis can be a good therapeutic tool,” says an expert.
Film Show Dinner "Funly" during the Accessible Kids Film Festival Photo: Gontof Communication/ Dissemination Film Network in the Netherlands puts in practice plan to hypnotize viewers. The goal: try to make them temporarily forget movies already seen and recreate the feeling of watching a story for the first time.
Participants in the experiment said they still remembered parts of the plot, while others described that they were absorbed again by the plot they already knew.
Is it possible to experience that one favorite film as if it were the first time? That is the question at the heart of an experiment by cinema Pathé. Under hypnosis, 30 people are watching the space film Interstellar by filmmaker Christopher Nolan again. "I thought that with hypnosis you had to enter a deep trance, almost sleep. That wasn't the case here; you remain conscious."
Hypnotist Victor Kraemer at the Pathé Buitenhof cinema in The Hague hypnotized 30 film lovers to forget "Interstellar" and watch it for the first time. Judging by their reactions, the experiment didn't quite work.
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