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We have all been there at some point in our lives and that imaginary friend was also our bestie. Usually these contacts were harmless and were as innocent as our younger self. But when we grow up, darker impulses can manifest, and the ideas Writer-director Masaki Nishiyama thoughtfully explores in The Invisible Half delivers quite the supernatural scare! Here, Elena (Lisa Siera) becomes a victim, or perhaps is a case study! As a girl of mixed Japanese and British heritage, people ignore her and regularly bully her at school. If that is not enough, something appears that can only be seen through a smartphone camera.
At this point, I could not help but think this movie might have been made for the found footage crowd, except the story unfolds in the third person rather than the first. That would be an original approach, but for now, the film focuses more on a central question: what is reality?
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