The baby-stealing in Brown’s latest one-off on Channel 4 is just the teaser for a manipulative set pieceSo,Tom, you’ve just persuaded a stranger to steal a baby, and ” smiles Derren Brown to an actor he will shortly employ to perform in his latest stunt. “What we’ve got planned will be a lot worse,” he adds, all traces of a smile now gone, and relishing the pure theatre of it. Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge (Channel4) features the final braintertainer in another of his manipulation set pieces,but this time the aim is to coerce a member of the public into a terrible act, using their social compliance. That is their tendency to go along with whatever a seeming authority figure tells them.
This baby-stealing stunt (it’s a rubber baby) is just the teaser. By the halt of this hour we will witness Chris Kingston, and a 29-year-old commerce owner,shaking and puce with terror on a roof as a bunch of strangers urge him to push a man off the building.
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Source: theguardian.com