The film "Day Dream" is meant to remind us of our childhood and the day dreams we used to have when we were children. Children often bring cartoons and other characters from their lives into their fantasy. It is difficult to hold on to the memories of childhood. As a child I had a pretty big imagination: I used to dream that I was a superhero solving crimes. Children tend to have pretty positive experiences in their daydreams. As we grow older we become more negative on the world, we see things for how they really are in reality. This film starts fairly positively, but at the end a quick turn of events happens and it becomes more negative. The main figure wakes up freaked out because the real world has invaded their childhood fantasy and nothing is sugarcoated any more.
I use Legos because they depict that representation of childhood. Holding on to the innocent and positivity of childhood is hard: trying to remember how you could have been so happy when you were little and there was so much negative going on in the world. A child sees only the little happy things in life: like hanging out with Batman in their head, or going to get ice cream. We need to learn that things may not be sugar coated for us anymore but that does not mean we cannot sprinkle some sugar for ourselves and the people around us.
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