Lars and the Real Girl is a movie about a man named Lars Lindstrom who for most of his life went unloved. He lived for a long time in the garage of his brother’s house, keeping to himself. The conflict begins when Lars develops a delusion that this doll Bianca is a real person. Lars tells his brother and sister-in-law that he met Bianca on the internet and that they are dating. Lars brother Gus and his sister-in-law Karin were very worried and consulted the family doctor who is also a physiologist.
Lars begins to go to the doctor with his girlfriend every week because she needed treatment, because she was sick, or so he thought. While in the doctors, the family doctor began an informal psychology sessions with Lars. Eventually the whole community begins treating Lars’ girlfriend like a real person and Lars begins to realize that people really do care about him.
So I had the impression from the description of this movie and the trailer that it was a comedy. The trailer made me laugh, and I really looked forward to seeing this movie. After about 20 minutes you realize that this movie is not a comedy, there isn’t any comedy. The movie is sad, and about a man with a real problem. The whole movie is basically about this guy living with a blow up doll who he thinks is real. Finally at the end of the movie Lars begins to interact a little better with real people, and his blow up doll “dies” ending the movie. In the end he is a little bit better, and potentially might end up with a real girlfriend.
I would not recommend this movie to anyone because it is boring, there is little drama, there is no comedy, and the ending was mediocre. But it was not just the ending that was mediocre but every aspect of the movie was mediocre, and in the end you find yourself regretting sitting through the whole movie.