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* AdultFear: A teenage girl has sex with her teacher, who becomes insanely possessive of her. Another teenage girl is forced to work as a stripper and killed. A house party ends with the entire living room destroyed in a drug-induced frenzy. Just about every onscreen teenage boy is shown taking drugs, with at least one going into convulsions.
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-->''"I know you probably think I'm a manipulative bitch for sleeping with two guys, but try looking at it this way: the sexual revolution is just like any other revolution. There's gonna be casualties."''
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* WhamLine: ''If you leave, I'll kill him!''
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* WhamLine: ''If ''"If you leave, I'll kill him!''him!"''
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* DisposableSexWorker: Laura, the student who works nights as a stripper and is murdered by the man in white.
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* LightIsNotGood: Barry's SanitySlippage kicks off with his bleaching his hair.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Jenny slut-shames Caroline, yet she flirts with the same guys Caroline sleeps with.
* LightIsNotGood: Barry's SanitySlippage kicks off withhis bleaching his hair.
* LightIsNotGood: Barry's SanitySlippage kicks off with
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Barry writes his novel's love interest in such a way. When Caroline realizes the love interest is based on her, she takes offense that he sees her in such a shallow light.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The final scene of the movie has a shot from behind of Caroline and Thurston holding hands and staring at the smoke on the horizon. As Caroline narrates that their situation depends on one's perspective (see the closing line below), the shot switches from their backs to their fronts, which shows an unspoiled sky with the sun low on the horizon.
* SpiritualSuccessor: There's a clear ''Series/TwinPeaks'' influence. A blonde schoolgirl with a shady double-life is found dead, SanitySlippage is depicted with a character's hair losing its pigment and the element of fire has a sinister presence. Caroline's appearance and character arc is almost a beat-by-beat re-enactment of Audrey Horne's.
* StylisticSuck: Barry's novel runs on a series of cliches and rushes through most of its plot within the space of 70 pages.
* StylisticSuck: Barry's novel runs on a series of cliches and rushes through most of its plot within the space of 70 pages.
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* TroubledButCute: Caroline reveals through narration that she was recently diagnosed as having low serotonin levels. After chewing out Jenny, she hides in a bathroom cubicle and cries her eyes out.
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* TroubledButCute: Caroline reveals through narration that she was recently diagnosed as having low serotonin levels. After chewing out Jenny, she hides in a bathroom cubicle and cries her eyes out. Thurston also fits the trope, as he's dealing with his best friend dying in a car accident.
* WhamLine: ''If you leave, I'll kill him!''
* WhamLine: ''If you leave, I'll kill him!''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''I knew then that our love was not some idealized state, but a union of secrets and flaws, and it broke my heart to think such things.'']]
-->''"I know you probably think I'm a manipulative bitch for sleeping with two guys, but try looking at it this way: the sexual revolution is just like any other revolution. There's gonna be casualties."''
[[caption-width-right:350:''I knew then that our love was not some idealized state, but a union of secrets and flaws, and it broke my heart to think such things.'']]
-->''"I know you probably think I'm a manipulative bitch for sleeping with two guys, but try looking at it this way: the sexual revolution is just like any other revolution. There's gonna be casualties."''
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Caroline Wexler (Dennings) has transferred to a high school in a secluded town. Wanting some drama in her life, Caroline seduces her English teacher Mr. Anderson (Lucas), while attracting the attention of classmate and stoner Thurston (Thompson).
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Caroline Wexler (Dennings) has transferred to a high school in a secluded town. Wanting some drama in her life, Caroline seduces her English teacher Mr. Barry Anderson (Lucas), while attracting the attention of classmate and stoner Thurston (Thompson).
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: The serial killer is impaled on a wooden spike after getting caught in a car accident, but when Caroline and the audience by extension see him, he's just a pitiful old man rather than the monster he was built up to be.]]
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** Mr. Anderson is the Veronica and Thurston is the Betty to Caroline's Archie.
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** Mr. Anderson Barry is the Veronica and Thurston is the Betty to Caroline's Archie.
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** Caroline is also the Veronica to the gym teacher's Betty for Mr. Anderson's Archie.
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** Caroline is also the Veronica to the gym teacher's Betty for Mr. Anderson's Archie.Barry's Archie.
* BittersweetEnding: After the car accident, [[spoiler: Caroline and Barry end up in hospital, but survive and are hinted to be in healthier relationships with Thurston and the gym teacher respectively. The serial killer is also killed in the same accident, but his death isn't played with any sense of triumph and the industrial fires rage on.]]
* BittersweetEnding: After the car accident, [[spoiler: Caroline and Barry end up in hospital, but survive and are hinted to be in healthier relationships with Thurston and the gym teacher respectively. The serial killer is also killed in the same accident, but his death isn't played with any sense of triumph and the industrial fires rage on.]]
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Mr. Anderson tells Caroline that if she doesn't stop seeing Thurston, he'll either kill him or kill himself. Most therapists will tell you this is textbook emotional abuse.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mr. Anderson's manuscript hints that he's struggling to get over an unfaithful girlfriend. Confirmed when he starts calling his ex-girlfriend under a pseudonym, just like the protagonist in his story does out of loneliness.
* {{Dissolve}}: Caroline's sex scenes with Mr. Anderson and her later ones with Thurston are all edited this way.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mr. Anderson's manuscript hints that he's struggling to get over an unfaithful girlfriend. Confirmed when he starts calling his ex-girlfriend under a pseudonym, just like the protagonist in his story does out of loneliness.
* {{Dissolve}}: Caroline's sex scenes with Mr. Anderson and her later ones with Thurston are all edited this way.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Mr. Anderson Barry tells Caroline that if she doesn't stop seeing Thurston, he'll either kill him or kill himself. Most therapists will tell you this is textbook emotional abuse.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:Mr. Anderson's Barry's manuscript hints that he's struggling to get over an unfaithful girlfriend. Confirmed when he starts calling his ex-girlfriend under a pseudonym, just like the protagonist in his story does out of loneliness.
* {{Dissolve}}: Caroline's sex scenes withMr. Anderson Barry and her later ones with Thurston are all edited this way.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
* {{Dissolve}}: Caroline's sex scenes with
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* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Anderson is suffering from one. After Caroline compliments his looks, he starts trying to look younger and more virile, even bleaching his hair.
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-->''"My mom once told me that if you ever want to make a man happy... flatter his vanity. Tell him he's handsome. She said not to bother calling him interesting or clever, because that's what their bosses and colleagues are for. But every man carries a secret dream of being handsome, and desperately yearns to be recognized as such."''
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis:Anderson Barry is suffering from one. After Caroline compliments his looks, he starts trying to look younger and more virile, even bleaching his hair.
* LightIsNotGood: Barry's SanitySlippage kicks off with his bleaching his hair.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis:
* LightIsNotGood: Barry's SanitySlippage kicks off with his bleaching his hair.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: The main plot revolves around Caroline and Mr. Anderson having an inappropriate affair. [[CrazyJealousGuy Anderson eventually gets too attached to Caroline]] and that's when things get ugly.
* TroubledButCute: Caroline reveals through narration that she was recently diagnosed as having low serotonin levels. After chewing out Jenny, she hides in a bathroom cubicle and cries her eyes out.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: The main plot revolves around Caroline and Mr. Anderson Barry having an inappropriate affair. [[CrazyJealousGuy Anderson Barry eventually gets too attached to Caroline]] and that's when things get ugly.
* TroubledButCute: Caroline reveals through narration that she was recently diagnosed as having low serotonin levels. After chewing out Jenny, she hides in a bathroom cubicle and cries her eyesout.out.
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-->''"People will tell you nothing matters, the whole world's about to end soon anyway. Those people are looking at life the wrong way. I mean, things don't need to last forever to be perfect."''
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* TroubledButCute: Caroline reveals through narration that she was recently diagnosed as having low serotonin levels. After chewing out Jenny, she hides in a bathroom cubicle and cries her eyes
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-->''"People will tell you nothing matters, the whole world's about to end soon anyway. Those people are looking at life the wrong way. I mean, things don't need to last forever to be perfect."''
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''Daydream Nation'' is a 2010 teen drama film by Canadian director Michael Goldbach. It stars Creator/KatDennings, Josh Lucas, Reece Thompson and Creator/AndieMacDowell.
Caroline Wexler (Dennings) has transferred to a high school in a secluded town. Wanting some drama in her life, Caroline seduces her English teacher Mr. Anderson (Lucas), while attracting the attention of classmate and stoner Thurston (Thompson).
Meanwhile, a serial killer in a white suit goes around preying on young women, two children go on adventures where they discuss existentialism and an industrial fire perpetually looms on the horizon.
! Tropes
* AdultFear: A teenage girl has sex with her teacher, who becomes insanely possessive of her. Another teenage girl is forced to work as a stripper and killed. A house party ends with the entire living room destroyed in a drug-induced frenzy. Just about every onscreen teenage boy is shown taking drugs, with at least one going into convulsions.
* BettyAndVeronica: [[spoiler: In the first two cases, both Bettys and Veronicas have sex with their respective Archies.]]
** Mr. Anderson is the Veronica and Thurston is the Betty to Caroline's Archie.
** Caroline herself is the Veronica to Jenny's Betty for Thurston's Archie.
** Caroline is also the Veronica to the gym teacher's Betty for Mr. Anderson's Archie.
* ColorMotif:
** Caroline has a penchant for red clothes and lipstick. Appropriate considering she's a FemmeFatale.
** There's a yellow wash over just about every scene set in the mundane town where all the characters end up living, while out of town settings that feature crushed dreams and long-lost relationships have more striking colours.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Mr. Anderson tells Caroline that if she doesn't stop seeing Thurston, he'll either kill him or kill himself. Most therapists will tell you this is textbook emotional abuse.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mr. Anderson's manuscript hints that he's struggling to get over an unfaithful girlfriend. Confirmed when he starts calling his ex-girlfriend under a pseudonym, just like the protagonist in his story does out of loneliness.
* {{Dissolve}}: Caroline's sex scenes with Mr. Anderson and her later ones with Thurston are all edited this way.
* FemmeFatale: Caroline is fully aware of the effect she has on guys.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Anderson is suffering from one. After Caroline compliments his looks, he starts trying to look younger and more virile, even bleaching his hair.
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Discussed at one point. Caroline's classmate Jenny tries to slut-shame her, but Caroline throws it back in her face:
--> "Okay, let's just say that I have banged forty guys. What's the problem? You're just jealous because you've been, ah, brainwashed by puritanical assholes who think sex is a sin. But then again, your, ah, little gerbil-sized brain has been reprogrammed by the media to believe that sex is the be-all, end-all. So now you're stuck, right? 'Cause on the one hand you love to fuck, but afterwards you feel overwhelmed by guilt & you're not sure why. Maybe it's because sex is neither as good or as evil as you've built it up to be."
* MsFanservice: Caroline tends to wear tight shirts and short skirts with stockings with the intention of looking seductive and there's a lot of close-ups of her lovely feminine features bathed in a yellow glow.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Thurston's mother charms Caroline's father to help her son get a chance with Caroline. It doesn't take long for her to genuinely take a liking to him.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Caroline finds out from reading Anderson's manuscript that he sees her as some kind of ManicPixieDreamGirl, which causes her to go off him.
* SerialKiller: A man in a white suit who had previously killed another teenage girl.
* TeacherStudentRomance: The main plot revolves around Caroline and Mr. Anderson having an inappropriate affair. [[CrazyJealousGuy Anderson eventually gets too attached to Caroline]] and that's when things get ugly.
* TroubledButCute: Caroline reveals through narration that she was recently diagnosed as having low serotonin levels. After chewing out Jenny, she hides in a bathroom cubicle and cries her eyes out.
Caroline Wexler (Dennings) has transferred to a high school in a secluded town. Wanting some drama in her life, Caroline seduces her English teacher Mr. Anderson (Lucas), while attracting the attention of classmate and stoner Thurston (Thompson).
Meanwhile, a serial killer in a white suit goes around preying on young women, two children go on adventures where they discuss existentialism and an industrial fire perpetually looms on the horizon.
! Tropes
* AdultFear: A teenage girl has sex with her teacher, who becomes insanely possessive of her. Another teenage girl is forced to work as a stripper and killed. A house party ends with the entire living room destroyed in a drug-induced frenzy. Just about every onscreen teenage boy is shown taking drugs, with at least one going into convulsions.
* BettyAndVeronica: [[spoiler: In the first two cases, both Bettys and Veronicas have sex with their respective Archies.]]
** Mr. Anderson is the Veronica and Thurston is the Betty to Caroline's Archie.
** Caroline herself is the Veronica to Jenny's Betty for Thurston's Archie.
** Caroline is also the Veronica to the gym teacher's Betty for Mr. Anderson's Archie.
* ColorMotif:
** Caroline has a penchant for red clothes and lipstick. Appropriate considering she's a FemmeFatale.
** There's a yellow wash over just about every scene set in the mundane town where all the characters end up living, while out of town settings that feature crushed dreams and long-lost relationships have more striking colours.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Mr. Anderson tells Caroline that if she doesn't stop seeing Thurston, he'll either kill him or kill himself. Most therapists will tell you this is textbook emotional abuse.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mr. Anderson's manuscript hints that he's struggling to get over an unfaithful girlfriend. Confirmed when he starts calling his ex-girlfriend under a pseudonym, just like the protagonist in his story does out of loneliness.
* {{Dissolve}}: Caroline's sex scenes with Mr. Anderson and her later ones with Thurston are all edited this way.
* FemmeFatale: Caroline is fully aware of the effect she has on guys.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Anderson is suffering from one. After Caroline compliments his looks, he starts trying to look younger and more virile, even bleaching his hair.
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Discussed at one point. Caroline's classmate Jenny tries to slut-shame her, but Caroline throws it back in her face:
--> "Okay, let's just say that I have banged forty guys. What's the problem? You're just jealous because you've been, ah, brainwashed by puritanical assholes who think sex is a sin. But then again, your, ah, little gerbil-sized brain has been reprogrammed by the media to believe that sex is the be-all, end-all. So now you're stuck, right? 'Cause on the one hand you love to fuck, but afterwards you feel overwhelmed by guilt & you're not sure why. Maybe it's because sex is neither as good or as evil as you've built it up to be."
* MsFanservice: Caroline tends to wear tight shirts and short skirts with stockings with the intention of looking seductive and there's a lot of close-ups of her lovely feminine features bathed in a yellow glow.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Thurston's mother charms Caroline's father to help her son get a chance with Caroline. It doesn't take long for her to genuinely take a liking to him.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Caroline finds out from reading Anderson's manuscript that he sees her as some kind of ManicPixieDreamGirl, which causes her to go off him.
* SerialKiller: A man in a white suit who had previously killed another teenage girl.
* TeacherStudentRomance: The main plot revolves around Caroline and Mr. Anderson having an inappropriate affair. [[CrazyJealousGuy Anderson eventually gets too attached to Caroline]] and that's when things get ugly.
* TroubledButCute: Caroline reveals through narration that she was recently diagnosed as having low serotonin levels. After chewing out Jenny, she hides in a bathroom cubicle and cries her eyes out.
