I first stumbled across this movie a few weeks ago when I was searching for a film about a forbidden romance, this one happens to involve a teacher/student relationship which is honestly one of my guilty pleasures. I did a bit of research before watching it but it didn't seem to be very popular and even after watching it I'm still unsure as to why that is.
The basic storyline involves Caroline (Kat Deenings) moving to a small town, with her dad, where she joins a high school full of people who are high on drugs. She befriends one of these druggies who is called Thurston (Reece Thompson) and later goes on to have sex with him in a car. However at the same time she is having an affair with her English teacher Mr Anderson (Josh Lucas), which at first is really cute but towards the end he becomes slightly deranged.
I did really enjoy watching this film, but there was a crazy amount of pre-modification so I always felt like I knew what was going to happen. It's hard for me to give any examples without giving away any spoilers, but what I will say is that if you do watch it, pay attention to the story that Mr Anderson has written, it's full of clues for the ending.
One thing I loved about Daydream Nation was most of the things said by Caroline in the voice overs
'There are some things which are destined to occur, and nobody in the world can do anything to stop it'
'For a while there it seemed like craziness was in the air and we were all just breathing it in'
'I'm not here to save you. I'm the main character of my life.'
It was so thoughtful and the messages could be applied to anyone's life.
The only things I didn't like about this film was the ending and the constant drugs references, but the ending is just my personal choice and I didn't want to not watch it just because there was a lot of drug taking.
Overall I would really recommend this film, however make sure you're an appropriate age as there's a lot of swearing, drugs, sex and inappropriate relationships.
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