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The 2007 film Lars and the Real Girl serves as a fine introduction to the enduring insights of British psychologist D.W. Winnicott, in this review by psychoanalytic psychologist Margaret Jordan.
- There’S Something About Bianca
- Happiness = Self-Deception
- The Brothers Lindstrom
- Catharsis, Onscreen and Off
- From Delusion to Reality
Based on premise alone, you’d be silly to expect that Lars and the Real Girl (2007) would be the sensible, nuanced, and emotionally complex movie that it is. On its face, this story seems like the sort of thing theFarrelly Brothers could have packed theatres with in the ’90s. But in reality, so to speak, it’s not that. Not at all. Lars and the Real...
All of that may sound nice – it is! – but it ignores the fact that in some cases happiness might just depend upon your willingness to indulge in a little self-deception, even delusion. Lars and the Real Girl is, after all, a movie that also asks you to pretend that Ryan Gosling– even with a mustache, a bad haircut, and a lumberjack’s business casua...
Lars Lindstrom lives in a carriage house adjacent to his childhood home, which was inherited by his brother Gus (Paul Schneider), who lives there with his wife Karin (Emily Mortimer). Increasingly pregnant and already innately maternal, Karin repeatedly tries in vain to get Lars to come over for dinner. Meanwhile, an older woman at church, Mrs. Gru...
On one level, the way that the people around Lars play along (and in so doing get some emotional catharsis of their own) serves to expose the melodrama of what we generally refer to as “real life.” But on another level, the way that Lars simulates common scenarios in romantic relationships, allowing himself to feel and otherwise experience difficul...
The iconoclastic composer John Cageonce said that “art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.” This notion nicely encapsulates what takes place for Lars and, by extension, the viewer. We find ourselves in a place both artificial and realistic, and what happens there affects us in ways that (if we allow it to) can reach ou...
Lars and the Real Girl is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written by Nancy Oliver and directed by Craig Gillespie. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, and Patricia Clarkson.
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Oct 18, 2007 · How do you make a film about a life-sized love doll, ordered through the Internet, into a life-affirming statement of hope? In "Lars and the Real Girl," you do it with faith in human nature, and with a performance by Ryan Gosling that says things that cannot be said.
The premise of Lars and the Real Girl is admittedly shock-ing: A shy young man orders a sex doll and insists on treat-ing it as a real woman, with his family and neighbors willingly participating in the delusion. However, as the plot unfolds, a more subtle story emerges.
A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet. In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home.
Apr 28, 2011 · The premise of Lars and the Real Girl is admittedly shocking: A shy young man orders a sex doll and insists on treating it as a real woman, with his family and neighbors willingly participating in the delusion. However, as the plot unfolds, a more subtle story emerges.
