Who has not had an imaginary friend? As a child, having it denoted imagination, innocence, social restlessness ... As an adult: loneliness, schizophrenia, love for hallucinogens ...

Now they have become fashionable again thanks to the Oscar nominee , Jojo Rabbit . Excellent satire of why humans should not waste time in war being able to do more interesting things like dancing, falling in love or progressing as a species. Therefore, and because we like imaginary friends, we will list a few very important for the history of cinema.

Bing Bong from Upside Down, 2015

Bing Bon was the imaginary friend of Riley Anderson , the troubled girl addicted to hockey, in the movie. It existed mostly inside the head of his partner. If you think about it, like most imaginary friends.

It is part cat, part elephant and part dolphin. They want to hug him until he breaks a few floating ribs because he feels like he's made of rich cotton candy. He is surely one of the friendliest imaginary friends on this list, although unfortunately he is retired.

Pros as an imaginary friend: It smells like a bowl of strawberries with sugar and encourages you to have a children's party shortly after giving it some conversation.

Cons : It is difficult for your friendship with him to overcome the typical and unfriendly adolescence.

Tyler Durden from The Fight Club, 1999

Tyler is a flirtatious and tenacious imaginary friend. The same serves to alienate you and take you on the path of social terrorism, which as an icon of fashion to follow. Despite being a vulgar soap seller never gives bad advice, only misunderstood advice that, in the long run, incites you to commit crime or shoot yourself for anxiety in the head.

Insomnia days usually appear and when frustration for a hollow life of wage slavery and consumerism attack. It represents the desired ego and freedom. Also the physique we all would like to have a day.

Pros as an imaginary friend: It will help you to be the center of attention of the neighborhood, as cool and admired. You may even create your own club.

Cons : Your partner will be thrown repeatedly and better than you.

The Mother of Norman Bates in Psychosis, 1960

Norman Bates is a weirdo and of all the imaginary friends he could have, he chooses his late mother to accompany him in his daily life and in his psychosis.

Norma Bates , yes, her name is Norma and her son Norman, it is normal for the child to be clamped out and out there stabbing the poor people in showers ... Well, Norma is cruel, demanding, hoarder, and goes saying out there that sexual relations are sin. Never trust someone who tells you that sexual intercourse is a sin, you can end up as Norma or as Norman, it doesn't matter, none ends very well.

Pros as an imaginary friend: It helps you to transvest and run motels.

Cons : It hints around there all the women in the world (except her) are prostitutes.

Mallorie Cobb of Origin, 2010

Here we have the case of the imaginary friend totally obsessed with you. What, well, it is enough to be grateful because it has all the face of Marion Cotillard ...

She was the wife of another very handsome boy Dominic Cobb , the best "dream extractor", technicality of the movie. But because of the mental manipulation of her husband, Mallorie , it ends up as a shower and without the undervalued ability to discern between the real and the dreamed.

If you asked Mallorie what kind of naps he likes best, if the 30-minute or 3-hour naps, he would answer: "the eternal", while you wink with an eye-catching and wonderful pose.

Pros as an imaginary friend: Dies to live with you in a dream world (literally).

Cons : It can incite you to suicide.

Lloyd of The Shining, 1980

Lloyd is like Casper only with access to alcohol and a less gentle face. Apparently only Jack Torrance can see it, which makes him a great ally when his family is not that loving and well-matched team that one can expect in a boring hotel and left by the hand of God.

Lloyd is kind and sinister in equal parts, so it would be said in equilibrium, guess what you want to drink at any time just by scrutinizing him with his spooky look and, in addition, is identical to Dr. Eldon Tyrell in the movie "Blade Runner" Ridley Scott , which will dazzle science fiction fans.

Pros as an imaginary friend: Serve and invite imaginary drinks at any time of the day.

Cons : It can instigate you to kill and dismember your family with an ax or a croquet stick.

Wilson de Casufrago, 2000

Wilson will be a faithful friend even in the worst moments of your life. It will be the passive hug you need in the dark times and the one that will listen to everything you have to say when you have to say it. And not because it is a ball, but because it would give you the last of his sighs so that it is not you who deflates.

The improvised beach volleyball is his move and although you should voluntarily bleed to redraw the features of his face, do not hesitate, he will never abandon you. Unless you take it with you a slight stream of water.

Pros as an imaginary friend: Float.

Cons: It's not very talkative.

Adolf Hitler in Jojo Rabbit, 2019

Normally, if you wanted to choose between historical figures who serve as an imaginary friend, you would not opt ​​for a sadistic dictator, alienated and monarchy, it would be something sweeter and more comprehensive, like María de Nazaret or Dan Aykroyd , but, of course, this can Serve you to get into trouble and start an adventure.

He will not ask you to shave yourself to scratch and tattoo the swastika on your chest until you are old to do it, but you will go to war to die for his absolutist and genocidal beliefs. It also offers tobacco, and of those people, we know, there is very little left.

Pros as an imaginary friend: It encourages you to be outgoing and brave.

Cons: It encourages you to be a Nazi.

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