![]() Several years later, Luke is a law school student and still struggling to adapt in college. Although they get along very well in the beginning of the film, Luke locks Daniel away in his grandmother’s antique dollhouse after Daniel’s advice nearly kills his mother. ![]() Luke first meets his imaginary friend Daniel during a time when he is at his most vulnerable, soon after he realizes that his parents’ relationship was deteriorating and he accidentally sees a gruesome crime scene. “It’s a personal story about a young man struggling about how he feels doing the wrong thing, but the book makes this an external process, which I thought made it so cinematic and I could see how the story could be visualized,” Mortimer told the Korea JoongAng Daily at an interview after his film “Daniel Isn’t Real” screened for the first time at the 23rd Bucheon International Film Festival (Bifan). When director Adam Egypt Mortimer finished reading the novel “In This Way I Was Saved” by Brian DeLeeuw, he immediately thought the material would be interesting to adapt to film. But what if your imaginary friend wasn’t a friend at all, but actually a demon waiting for just the right moment to possess your body? ![]() After going to school and interacting with real friends, many imaginary friends naturally dissolve from kids’ minds. ![]() Many people remember their imaginary friend from childhood, with whom they enjoyed imaginary tea parties, sword fights and treasure hunts. ![]()
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