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But he's coming out to play
A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.
Daniel Isn't Real
2019 Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer
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Elijah Wood Josh C. Waller Stacy Jorgensen Brett W. Bachman Daniel Noah Elisa Lleras Michael M. McGuire Johnny Chang Lisa Whalen Peter Wong Emma Lee Timur Bekbosunov
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내 상상의 친구, 다니엘 이즌 리얼, Daniel není skutečný
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It was very entertaining! It is very different than what I expected. It was grittier! I feel there is an ideology/mythology there that the surface was barely being scratched. They could have developed more what makes Daniel Daniel! I still think it’s good and I’d love to see a sequel so that the mythology of Daniel could be developed! Check it out!
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Pretty blatantly Hereditary + Mandy + Jacob's Ladder + Fight Club by way of the best of 80's NYC trash (think Henenlotter and Lustig), but for better and for worse, ends up reminding me of nothing more than Andrew Getty's The Evil Within. Doesn't have the revealing outsider thrill of Getty's oddball late-night classic, but makes up for it in sheer commitment to the bit. This totally mishandles mental health, literalizes every metaphor six ways from Sunday, but unlike other movies that try to pretend they have nuance, this takes genuine pride in the ludicrous dumb energy. Everyone is having so much fun with this goofy, sleazy nonsense. Schwarzenegger is ridiculous. I've said before that I prefer this SpectreVision psych-horror freakout type thing to the "elevated" stuff, but if this is how those approaches are bridged, more please.
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an openly raw experience of the inescapable possibility of genetic illness, a fear that we might soon be forced to accept our own insanity as an inevitability. Daniel isn't real, yet he's forever a suffocating reminder of the terrorizing force of the self-destructive mind.
persistently unambiguous yet highly conceptual. it's hereditary, but we know from the beginning he never stood a chance. it's fight club, but we know from the beginning and are constantly reminded that daniel isn't real - the entirety of the film depends on that knowledge (hence it being the title). the filmmakers had one goal: to make the viewer experience the claustrophobia of genetic psychosis, and in this way it is immeasurably powerful.
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I've dealt with PTSD for decades now, I'm a survivor of trauma and I'm pretty sceptical about any film that tries to tackle mental illness.
Not just horror movies, movies in general.
Most of the Oscar nominated films portraying mental illness as a subject are miles behind stuff like Japanese anime and pro wrestling.
So? How does Daniel Isn't Real measure up? Well. It tries a lot more than other films and I'll give it points for that. And it's very interesting and a lot more intelligent than people give it credit for being.
Daniel Isn't Real is the story of a young boy who witnesses a horrible act of violence and it scars him and leads him to seek…
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Sure... it looked nice and all that but this just wasn’t my thing... plus while watching this I couldn’t stop thinking about how I should’ve watched the blu I scooped of Fulci’s Conquest instead.
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I think we might have a secret gem right under our noses. While, nothing great. It subverts our expectations on how we view the deepest and darkest parts of ones self. its pretty damn compelling and it gave me some much needed chills down my spine.
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The awful nadir of FrightFest 2019. Adam Egypt Mortimer's follow up to The Ladybird Film of Conflict Resolution is The Ladybird Film of Tortured Metaphor. It does for mental health what Some Kind of Hate did for the subject of bullying. A film of such mind-numbing insensitivity and stupidity, I can't even begin to do it justice. Suffice it to say, various ways of treating schizophrenia are explored, from a witch doctor with a Tibetan singing bowl to a broomstick that doubles as a sword.
And why is it that aspiring artists always live in vast warehouse apartments and do all their painting with a palette knife?
Fuck this film.
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arnold 100% didnt watch this shit but told his son he did
tried to get excited when some cenobite guys showed up but it was still just indifferently-shot fx and slow.. droning... zooms on symmetrical pink-lit hallways. i cant believe this is cornier than BLISS! shouldve googled the director before watching c8.alamy.com/comp/WB9BN3/cineworld-leicester-square-london-uk-25-august-2019-adam-egypt-mortimer-attends-daniel-isnt-real-adam-egypt-mortimer-credit-julie-edwardsalamy-live-news-WB9BN3.jpg
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With the exception for a few gory images it mostly felt like a PG-13 movie targeted for a teenage audience. It for sure wasn’t boring, the first half was decent and showed some potential, but the second half couldn’t live that up. Although it was awesome to hear that Boy Harsher song in it.
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