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Movies about Daydreaming
Are there any movies you can think of that are about daydreaming?
The only two I can think of are
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Perfect Sisters (I saw this on Netflix about two sisters who dream up the perfect mother because their real mother is a mess)
Any others?
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Permalink Reply by Roel on
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Bridge To Terabithia? I saw that once as a kid, I think they were daydreaming. not sure:/
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Permalink Reply by Cyan on
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Sweeney Todd's dream sequence. Mrs. Lovett daydreams about their life by the beach.
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Permalink Reply by OhMyMagenta on
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Her. Although not technically about daydreaming I suppose
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Permalink Reply by Alvi on
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Amelie. She has a few daydreams in the films. Also maybe Alice in wonderland but I think she may of been dreaming and not daydreaming. There are quite a few films with dd or a persons fantasy sequences in (I was going to add the youtube links but the ones I know of were a bit violent), but I can't think of any films only about a daydreamer.
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Oh and if you like Tim Burton this is a really early short (1982).
Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
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Permalink Reply by Emma on
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Terry Gilliam plays around with the idea of the reality of someone's life vs their fantasies of it quite a bit. I'd say Fisher King is the one that is most directly about this, but also Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus are about this to a certain extent. Gilliam loves Don Quixote, and of course that story is the ultimate dreaming your life away novel.
Edited to add: none of those are directly about daydreaming, but I think they hit a lot of the same notes.
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