Lars and the Real Girl is a 2007 American-Canadian comedy-drama film written by Nancy Oliver and directed by Craig Gillespie. It is definitely a dark comedy film, in my opinion. It stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner and Patricia Clarkson. It won a couple of film festival awards and was nominated for an Oscar in 2008.
Lars and the Real Girl is about a socially awkward guy named Lars. He lives in the garage behind his brother's and sister-in-law's house. Both brothers inherited this house from their father when he passed away. Lars struggles to interact with his family and people in general, so he liked to live alone in the garage rather than in the house with his family. His family and friends are concerned that something might be wrong with Lars, since he is always alone. One day, Lars announces to his brother and sister-in-law that he has a visitor over, Bianca. Bianca is a girl that he met through the internet. She is a foreigner so doesn't speak much english and she is in a wheelchair. His brother and sister-in-law are so excited to hear Lars has finally found someone, but this soon changes when they meet Bianca. Bianca is a lifelike doll. Lars acts like she is real, talking to her and having a real life relationship. As you can image, his family was terribly concerned for Lars mental health. They all go to the doctor, saying Bianca needs a checkup, but it is to talk to their doctor, which is also a psychologist, about Lars. The doctor says that Lars is making this girl up in order to get over something, something that has affected his mental health. In order to help Lars, everyone must go with this story and pretend Bianca is real. The word gets around to the whole community and they all decide to help Lars by following along. Time passes and the whole community loves Bianca and it is as if she is a real person in the community. Lars continues to go to the doctor for "Bianca's bad health condition," meeting and talking to the psychologist every time, which at the end helps him and ends up curing him. Don't want to ruin the movie for you so thats all I can tell you about it.
I LOVED THIS FILM! The story was phenomenal! So creative and original, something I would have never thought about. Im a huge fan of Ryan Gosling as well, not just because he's gorgeous, but because he's an amazing actor. He was outstanding in this film!! The camera work in this film was very simple. No long shots or special effects or all that stuff. The story is what made the film so strong. The only things I didn't like were the constant dips to black. They were kinda long and it just made it seem like a TV show. They weren't too bad but I just didn't really like them. Also, I am a continuity freak and there was one scene that broke continuity. It is when Lar's sister-in-law is out at lunch with her friends and the scene cuts between a medium head on shot to a over the shoulder shot. In this scene she is eating a sandwich but the sandwich is up in one frame and down on the other and it cuts back in forth between them, so you can definitely see the break of continuity. Other than that, the film was amazing! I LOVED IT! Its really funny but it is sad as well, a dark-comedy.
In my opinion, I would say its a MUST SEE! Not so much because of the way it was made but because of the story. The story definitely was made the film great. And I just love Ryan Gosling haha :)
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