Lars And The Real Girl Essay

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The film Lars and the Real Girl cast Lars, an adult male with not only odd behavior, but the social immaturities similar to a child as well. Our main character also carries around a heavy load of baggage which plays a very important role is his diagnosis. To begin with it’s obvious that Lars is socially inept from scene one. In fact, in an earlier scene, Karin, Lars sister-in-law married to brother Gus is speaking to her husband about how Lars must be very lonely. Karin asks Lars over on multiple occasions and on all occasions Lars declines except in one scene. It took Karin calling out Lars illegitimate lies about why he cannot visit and then she even has to go as far as to tackle him. After all this Lars finally agrees to come over for dinner. Now, Lars is …show more content…

Not a full blown Antisocial disorder, since when in social encounters Lars is really a soft hearted guy, but more so as a symptom of the bigger picture. Lars creates a delusion for himself that a life sized plastic women called Bianca is actually alive and is his loving girlfriend. In one very important scene, Lars speaks with doctor Dagmar who he believes is Bianca's doctor, not realizing he is actually the patient. While in conversation Lars says Bianca cannot have children. Her mother died when she was born and her father died later too. We know that Lars is really talking about himself and that the delusion he is having is a result of decompensation. The timing of Lars delusion is simultaneous to Karin’s pregnancy. Considering Lars background it makes sense that this would be his trigger. Looking at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Lars never received love or belonging so for treatment Lars needs to find a sense of belonging and love to move on. To help Lars the whole town participates in Lars delusion. People are supportive of him and treat Bianca just as real as he believes

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