转载前还必须分享一点：本片海报也极其有趣，见：http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02764/derrenjpg_2764944b.jpg
一开始看不懂或不相信么？都是diversion的功劳。。而diversion也是本片的g点。要看懂的话请看这里，再来感叹Derren大神宣传的用心用力：http://derrenbrown.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/DSC2175.jpg
Michael Hogan
'Tis the season not only to be jolly but to steal things, clearly. Next week sees BBC One's two-part drama The Great Train Robbery. But a certain beardy mind-bender（好称谓！） snuck in first with Derren Brown: The Great Art Robbery.
The mind trickster has been off our screens all year, while touring his latest stage show, Infamous. （目前还是哪里都找不到！) In the interim, Brown has shaved off his thinning hair （见Svengali那场秀中渐秃的脑顶！）and invested in a selection of dapper tweed caps. Perhaps he’s a fan of BBC Two drama Peaky Blinders.
He returned on typically mischievous form, trying to commit the perfect crime. Brown bet his mate Ivan Massow – millionaire art collector, gentle giant and thoroughly game chap – that he could steal a £100,000 painting from under his nose at a charity exhibition. The wager was for the princely sum of a quid, which suited these straitened times. （全片这点最体现Derren与生俱来的幽默，也或者本身就是个diversion。问艺术家拿一块钱干嘛竟然说买口香糖吧。。。真是实诚的孩子！）
Brown seemed supremely confident, verging on cocky. （不cocky还是Derren么？）He told Massow which work was being targeted (an unremarkable daubing by The Chapman Brothers), precisely when the theft would happen, even providing a photo of the perpetrator.
So who did Brown recruit as his heist gang? Career criminals, international ninjas or nimble young urchins? Nope, none of the above. He plumped for a handful of seemingly ordinary pensioners.
As well as being a good gimmick, this allowed Brown to make a wider point about OAPs often being invisible to society. （因为秃顶所以突然关注起老人问题了么？）This unlikely gang were retired from work but by no means retired from fun. They retained a lust for life and relished the chance to be naughty. It was refreshing and all too rare to see on-screen. （这点绝对同意：Derren is nothing if not original。）
Their month’s training in the dark art of misdirection involved card tricks, filching chips on Brighton beach (if caught, blame seagulls), illegally spraying graffiti (fake policemen gave them a fright here) and stealing watches off wrists – although the latter proved a challenge too far. As the appointed day approached, tension mounted. （后来一想，这种tension就是对观众本身的diversion了） I found myself rooting for them from the safety of my sofa.
（以下这段有spoiler，选择性跳过）
So did the silvery stealers succeed in their audacious mission? Yes and no. Some devilish twists left me feeling slightly swizzed but largely satisfied. After some shenanigans with a swivelling sign and a catering table, they got caught red-handed. Except a pair of twins and a wheelchair meant they actually got away with not one but two paintings. Clear as mud? Thought so.
This film was a tad too long but ticked along at a fair lick and was stylishly shot. London looked ravishing, as it often does on TV – see also The Apprentice, Doctor Who and Sherlock – but rarely does in real life （严重同意）, when you’re being jostled, rained on or beset by fried chicken and ratty pigeons.
We closed with our pleased-as-punch pensioners stood in a row, sipping champagne and gazing across the London skyline, set to a soundtrack of Debussy’s Clair De Lune （神来之笔！而且Sherlock某集闪回有没有！！）– a neat homage to the Bellagio fountain scene in Ocean’s Eleven. （高潮了！）Here's to staying young at heart.
（原文http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10515888/Derren-Brown-The-Great-Art-Robbery-review.html）
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