 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Worth It Oxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at Sentimentalism from Luca Volpe. What is it? Basically it's a DVD that contains a series of effects, all mentalism and all kind of psychological mentalism that helps you connect with your spectator on a personal sentimental level. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. Two, one, action. Yeah, that's magic. I call myself a sentimentalist because mentalism for me is all about connecting people. In this DVD you will find mentalism routines which are suitable for one-on-one close-up and strolling performances that are very easy to do and that require only everyday objects. So if your goal is to entertain people by giving them emotions, then this DVD is for you. You might remember he also did the ultimate book test, he also did the ultimate chair test, he did in and out and he did in my mind. This DVD is seven different routines that he is putting together for you. They're all, like I said, they're all kind of close up, very good for walk around, very intimate. It's kind of why it's called Sentimentalism. It's like sentimental, it's not a stage production, it's more of a one-on-one interaction. The DVD is two hours, 11 minutes long and like I said, you get seven tricks, you get a bonus section which is really cool. All everyday props, things like business cards, golf pencils, envelopes, pieces of paper, rocks, little bags, just all the little simple props that you can find at your local office store or just things that are very familiar to a mentalist. You're going to learn a couple tricks on this DVD. One of them is called Unlock Your Dream. Basically you have a little baggy and some keys at a lock and you will have the spectator lock their prediction in a bag and then they, through divination, select the key that unlocks the bag. That was pretty cool. Emotional drawing, probably one of my favorite tricks on this DVD. Luca gives you his own version of a task-conditioned impossible drawing routine and I think it's awesome and it requires basically nothing to do. There's a trick on here called the Mind Journey where Luca goes across his own one-ahead principle and it's just a mixture of different concepts that'll help you create a really impossible, really stunning effect for your audience. There's a pin number revelation on here. There's a crystals prediction on here. There's a subliminal message trick on here where you kind of influence somebody's choice using three different colored envelopes. There's a trick on here called Key of Your Mind. It's very emotional and very bold. I think you'll like it. And then there's another bonus section in here where Luca sits down with Paul Rothman and they discuss all the effects on the DVD. They discuss a lot of the ins and outs and Luca goes over once again maybe some advice and some tips that he forgot to mention the first time around. And then after that there's two more bonus tricks. You end up with nine tricks total. Is it what I thought? It's better than what I thought. I knew it would be a really cool DVD on mentalism but this is far better than what I was expecting. Again, very familiar elements, very familiar methods of mentalism. I don't think you'll be surprised at any of his methods but the way he assembles them, the way he puts them together, the way he's able to take a very familiar plot and then add an element maybe from this trick and then stick it into this one in a fresh new way, I think you'll find very intriguing. What's the overall quality and production value? It looks like it was filmed at a school using some of the teachers or staff that works there. It's not shot in HD and sometimes you can actually hear kids playing in the background and that would kind of be my one negative is it just doesn't have that same kind of HD quality that maybe a lot of DVDs today have. The presentation videos have more of a handheld feel where it's just one camera panning back and forth between the two people and then the revelation area is a private all-black backdrop, black table area where then you do get into multi-camera angles and Lucas talks directly to the screen. Positives. All right, so what are some of the positives? Like I said, very creative ways to use familiar plots and simple methods. The Q&A section with Paul Rothman is almost the same length on the DVD as the explanations to all these tricks. I mean you get so much in the Q&A that it almost feels like you get a whole bonus DVD that's included and you kind of do because he's giving you so much more ideas, so many more handling, so many more tips, plus the two extra tricks that are tucked onto the back of this they almost feel like Easter eggs, so it's just jam-packed. There's so much mentalism here, so many great ideas, even if you don't copy these tricks point for point, I think you'll still walk away with something valuable. Is it worth your money? It's 23 bucks, 23 dollars and like I said you get nine effects. 23 bucks for nine tricks is really inexpensive. Who would like this? I think anybody looking to break into mentalism, I think if you want to start with something simple that uses simple props, this is definitely for you. However, if you're already doing intermediate or advanced mentalism and you like Luca Volpe stuff or you just want to try some new ways to do familiar plots, also I think people who are more interested in installing mentalism or people who want to do close-up or people who enjoy doing mentalism with their friends as opposed to strangers, I think would definitely like this. All right so that is Sentin Mentalism from Luca Volpe and Titanus Magic and I'd like to thank the good people down at Murphy's Magic for supplying this for me so that I could review it for you and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at one of your favorite Murphy's Magic dealers. Thanks, bye.