I guess I'm in the minority here, but I did not enjoy it.
I liked the premis, the presentation, the handling was flawless, but over all, it just felt over done to me.
I think mainly you lost me when you spent nearly a full 30 seconds displaying the two cards, twirling them around.
This may have been fine with some patter, or subtitles. Perhaps about their passionate affair, twirling through the ages.
Also, you spent similarly way too much time on the shuffling at the beginning. It all felt far too deliberate. Not in the sense that you were doing something sneaky, just that you were over emphasizing the "clean" shuffling.
And, though, again, I liked the idea, the change at the end is just too subtle to be effective. It turns into an anti-climax.
Any who, I guess mainly just those few things, but they reflect the over all feel of the piece to me.
It has all the elements of a beautiful piece of art, but they just didn't quite come together for me.
A similar piece as far as the feel, in my opinion, though no "story" per say, and much faster paced would be Jean-Pierre Vallarino performance on Worlds Greatest Magic.
I'm sure there are many more ways then I can currently think of to bring card magic to life, but this is by far one of the most beautiful. Very well done.
P.S. I believe kate did something like this not all that long ago, and this reminds me of that video aswell. Two of my favorite videos on T11 by far.
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