Film Analysis: Lars And The Real Girl

In the movie, Lars and the Real Girl we meet a boy named Lars he is in his mid 20s-30s suffering from lack of human needs in his early childhood. He shows many traits of a variety of mental disorders. In this film we see the healing he goes through into becoming a man. Lars learns how to truly love and be loved by someone.
In the beginning of the movie we see a clip of him being in his house separated from his loved ones and alone in his dark house with a blanket , we may not realize it yet but that blanket plays a key factor into his mental state. When he was born his mother died at childbirth which caused him to not get the certain affection he needed to become a man.
Towards the middle of the movie he shows a lot of symptoms of dependent personality disorder while in church he plays with his toys because he is bored. While at work his friend orders a blow up doll, to Lars the doll is a way to feel affection but still staying in his boundaries he has a problem with touching. The doll is an escape to relive his childhood, the reason behind that is because when he was younger he did not get the mother affection he needed which caused him to age in his mind slower. …show more content…
Before the doll he was very antisocial he wanted to stay at home he sat separated at work from his friends he barely talked to his co-workers he did not want a girlfriend, but when he got the doll he met a girl named margot and even though he wanted to act like he did not like her, he truly did you could tell his emotions were opening