Essay On Lars And The Real Girl

Lars has a very unfortunate life with his mental disorder. He lives everyday with his mind swirling in his head. He is trapped by his own evil that lives in his head and he can’t escape it. Lars have a very interesting personality in the movie Lars and the Real Girl. Multiple disorders that we have studied follow under his footsteps. One that connects with him very well is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia has really important symptoms that stick out to the average person in public. This can be a severe lack of social skills and being really uncomfortable in certain situations. This is very obvious in the movie by when he talks to Margo. Margo is the girl in the movie that likes Lars at the office. You can tell Lars likes Margo also by how he talks to …show more content…
Gus loses his temper and yells at Lars that Bianca is not real and she is just a doll. How Lars deals with this is he just goes over it like nothing ever happened. He has absolutely no reaction acting like nothing was ever said. This is the result of him trying to push in his mind Bianca in his life. Lar’s condition makes him struggle with having feelings towards people. This reflects on Margo and him trying to push emotion out of his life. This follows under another disorder called Schizoid personality disorder. Theses people that have this unfortunate issue prefer to be alone most of the time. They do not show a need for acceptance or attention. This can be how when Gus and his wife invites him over for dinner he is reluctant to go. He does not want to have that social interaction that would put him in. Consequently, he does not put himself in a potion to grow and to help overcome his issues. He even goes out of his way to make up an excuse for not eating with them. When Gus’s wife comes outside when Lars gets home, she asks him over for dinner. Lars says that he brought home his work to work on so he can’t go to dinner. In result, Gus’s wife looks in the car and finds no work as