7. On magic

Kung hei fat choi!

Just over a decade ago I started getting interested in the idea of ‘magic’ again - as well as its connection to ‘curiosity’. This interest had a combination of triggers - mostly caring for my small children and their attendant reading needs, and in so doing, discovering a box of my old how-to magic books from my childhood. Around the same time there was a resurgence of films set in and around the figure of the theatrical magician and magic show/performance. Christopher Nolan’s (2006) () which came out the same year as another (2006) are indicative of that resurgence. [I’m not linking to the trailer for because it does a real disservice to what is an adequate movie]. These were followed by their modern equivalent - the heist series (2013-), new TV magicians and the arrival of the YouTube magician.