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Lars and the Real Girl (2007) by Craig Gillespie (REVIEW)

lost108Posted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago2 min read

What you need to know about this movie is an unconventional love story that does not follow the genre it describes (comedy, drama), nor is it recounted, but is experienced in a wonderful journey that lasts one hour and forty minutes. I am sure those who watched it have mixed emotions around this movie, like I am having right now, not in terms of whether they liked it or not, of course, the movie is a small masterpiece, original and unprecedented above all.

Ryan Gosling plays Lars, a recluse who does not want to communicate with other people, as needed, is afraid of touching and lives in the garage of his brother and his wife.

Lars orders a doll (sex doll) over the internet, and when she arrives he treats her as a girlfriend. He has a delusion that she is actually his real girlfriend and takes care of her, and speaks, dresses her, gives her to eat, sleep in a separate room etc.

What is astonishing in this movie is that the small society (in which the action is located) welcomes Lars’s girlfriend as it is a real girlfriend.

This movie can be found similar to “Her” and it opens a discussion about some dilemmas that it creates. I really enjoy it, a little bit sad but funny movie that is unique in every way.


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Original review written by me.

  • Rating: 8/10
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