Listen to this articleLars and The Real Girl Review
The movie shows Lars knowing how to love and how he wants to be loved. Lars relationship with his brother Gus and Karin are superficial at best. Lars talk with Gus after his therapist tells him to talk with Gus. Karin and Lars talk as Lars is upset. Both these scenes amplify the kind of connection Lars has and the one he desires.
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lara’s in the real girl
it really hit me hard emotionally
and lars is a person who
establishes his own love and knows how
to love
and knows how he wants to be loved
when i connect with that i see exactly
what
lars relationship is with gus and karen
gus being
lars’s brother and karen being gus’s
wife an important thing to know
and see in this is that lars is sent to
therapy
and eventually he ends up getting a
plastic doll that
is a life-size
life girlfriend to him
two scenes really stuck out to me
because eventually
lars’s girlfriend was then made into
something the town and everybody was
there for him for
when lars talks to gus at one point
he asks gus because the therapist asks
him to
as anybody should because you can’t go
to therapist about someone forever you
have to actually talk to the person
and lars does this talks with gus and
says
how did you know you how did you know
when you were a man was it sex
and when gus is talking
he’s talking to lars like he’s a
stranger like he’s someone he’s barely
known
and they go down to the basement they
talk some more while he’s doing like
just laundry
chores at home kind of thing and
it’s interesting to hear what he has to
say because gus
is basically saying
oh you know you know you’re a man
because we do the right
you want to do right you want to
be this kind of thing and it’s
interesting how lazy he is with lars
how lazy he is as a brother to lars
seeing lars live in the back house and
have his whole life
be the way it is and him not
understanding it he doesn’t take a
presence to know it
and by the end of the conversation they
have in the basement
gus says you know i’m sorry i didn’t
take you away from
our dad because i guess the dad was
abusive i’m really sorry about that i
should have done that i was so scared
and anything he’s saying
about what a man is he wants to be or
he’s expressing what
he would want to be but he’s not there
he’s not doing it
he’s not even doing it in this moment
when he has an action
coming from lars that is different from
what lars did before lars never really
asked anything he was shy
even with his own family but now he’s
speaking to them in an
honest way and asking them
questions and right there he’s only
getting
well this is what i want to be this is
what i want to be
but it’s not something he’s doing he’s
disrespecting
his own brother by doing that and later
karen is
talking with lars because lars is upset
that he doesn’t have his girlfriend
around him anymore the girlfriend is
being taken everywhere
and he’s upset he’s outside he’s really
frustrated angry
and karen tells him you know what we did
this for you we did this for you
and the way karen’s screaming
shouting so emotional it’s like
they didn’t want to do it in the first
place
well then why’d you do it why’d you do
it if you
can’t take that maybe lars is going to
be emotional in a different way than
what you would want isn’t this what you
wanted you wanted
lars to have a more open and expressive
way well he’s doing it
and he’s doing it with you he was so shy
and now he’s not
that’s why i love this movie it ex it
shows an expression of someone that was
so shy
that was unable or maybe didn’t have the
ability to know
that he could share this love that he
knows how to love with and knows
how he wants to be loved with everybody
else and and bring that to them
in a very honest and open way
that’s honestly why i love this movie it
really hit me at my core and
i could see that relationship dynamic
with the brother
in my own relationship in my own
relationship and the same thing with
karen there it’s crazy love it
