The Real Girl

Lars and the Real Girl. To sum it up, it's a quirky little movie about loneliness and how that makes relationships difficult. Not just a "love" relationship, but those with family, friends, neighbors, everone. And it makes you feel for people who have social, psychological disorders. I mean, who buys a "love" doll and believes that it's a real live girlfriend?! But you feel for Lars. And you appreciate his situation.

You see, it's because Lars begins to deal with his life tragedies by having this obviously fake relationship with Bianca, the doll who obviously doesn't know anything about him and can't. He reaches out to the people around him who loves him who he's been alienating from, through Bianca. She helps him. That's the genius of it. But here's the best part. Not only does Lars reach out, but everyone else reaches out to him. When he would alienate himself, pretty much everyone left him alone, thought "yeah, he has problems, but I don't know what to do, how to handle him, how to fix him, so let's just leave him alone." You see? Lars was alienating everyone else, but it was really everyone else that was alienating Lars. Genius. And with the help of Bianca, Lars asked them to be in his life and for him to be in their lives in the most absurd, completely subtle/direct way imaginable.

So if you're feeling alone and that nobody gets you and that nobody tries to understand you....