Lars and the Real Girl

Stephanie Lamp
UNST:Wall-E
February, 8th 2010
Lars and the Real Girl

Lars and the Real Girl was released in 2007, directed by Criag Gillespie, and the screen play by Nancy Oliver. This was a very creative film, it could be for kids but they may not catch the underlying meaning this movie has along with it. It would be most enjoyable for adults or teenagers. In the beginning of the movie you’re not really sure how you feel about Lars. You don’t know whether he’s slightly odd or if everyone else just overreacts about him not being a very sociable person. Then you start to see his personality through “Bianca” it’s almost as if he’s living through her. Coincidentally Bianca’s life is almost exactly how Lars’ was. It seemed to me he got to slowly move on from his sadness of his mother and fathers death through her because that was the only way he knew how to express himself. I love how the community doesn’t judge him for his disability but just accepts her and helps them both seem welcome. He gets to see a new side of all the people he lives with through Bianca because before she was around he was too shy or quiet to really talk to his towns people. The way the community was to Lars is how we should act with others, we need to be Christ like and know that only God can judge others, things may seem weird to us but it doesn’t matter what we think, we just need to accept everyone the way God made them.