Lars and the Real Girl by: Racho

The Movie "Lars and the Real Girl" was about Lars, played by Ryan Gosling, who fell in love with a sex doll. He didn't use it for what it was made for, he used it to help him. Once in the movie he said that Bianca, the sex doll, said that she was made to help people and that she did. She definitely helped Lars get out of his comfort zone and helped him reconnect with the real world and interact with real people. Margo, played by Kelli Garner, was the girl who finally helped him really break out in the end. She kept trying to get him to come to her and finally in the end he turned to her.

This movie was directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Nancy Oliver. They definitely used a technique that really got my attention. Their idea of a sex doll as the main character in this movie is unique. The sex doll not serving the purpose it was made for made this movie even more interesting. A sex doll is used to help people in such a way, but in this movie, it definitely was used to help someone but in a good way. Bianca, the sex doll, gave Lars a life, brought him back into the community, helped him communicate with people. He was such a lonely guy in the beginning until Bianca came along. This movie shows that loneliness is really sad and not something that everybody enjoys. It brings pain to the lonely, which was shown by Lars having pain shock through his body whenever someone touched him. The difference of not being lonely compared to being lonely is such a sudden change that it is painful. Ryan Gosling's character shows that through his pain of wanting to be with company.

In the movie, family is pretty much everything. We can see that without family, Lars might not have made it through to the point where he is able to take the change of loneliness. His brother Gus, helped him as well. In the beginning he may have been resistant to helping his ill brother but in the end, with his help, Lars made it through. He was able to release the doll and live a real life and find his real girl.

I think that this movie shows us how important family is and with even one family member not in line, the whole community cannot be whole. The community served as a family who took Lars and his girlfriend, Bianca, in so that he can feel the love of community and family to finally make him see that the real world is just as accepting as his fantasy of a sex doll being his girlfriend. His disorder helped him realize that he wasn't alone in the world. God doesn't want us to be alone as well. So he does everything he can to bring us to him like Margo who wouldn't stop trying to get Lars to break out into the community.

Rachel Cho

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