In the movie Lars And The Real Girl, Lars is a very unique person. He is really quiet and doesn’t like to interact or talk to people. He gets really awkward and nervous if someone tries to talk to him. He gets anxiety being around people, especially his brother Gus. Gus talks about how his father was very distant, similar to Lars. Throughout the movie you learn that he tries to avoid any social situations that he possibly can, and if someone does talk to them he usually ignores them and walks away. After the beginning of the movie Lars buys a sex doll, it comes in the mail and he believes it is a real person named Bianca. Lars stays in a house right next to his brothers but insists that Bianca stays in his brother's home. Taking note that most people in the town understand that Lars has a mental disorder, they react to this situation …show more content…
Lars shows signs of Avoidant Personality Disorder. So Lars shows signs of making himself thinks no one has any interest in him and that he feels like the odd one out pretty much. He also doesn’t like being touched. This is why he tries to avoid any social interaction also because he doesn’t want to feel like he will get made fun of. Therefore he bought Bianca, whom he thinks is real so the town and everyone goes along with it to help treat him for this and help him with his disorder. Lars treats Bianca like any normal human being, he dresses her, she “sleeps”, he takes her to the therapist, parties, and much more. At work, this girl Margo has a crush on Lars and he sort of understands and likes her back but it takes him a while to start getting comfortable around her. Later on Lars starts to believe that Bianca is going to leave him and that she is dying. He makes all of her decisions for her and about everything that happens to her and everyone in the town lets it happen to get Lars better. Bianca
A choice made by Erik affects Paul by causing his classmates and peers to view him as a freak because he has goggles and bad eyesight. This all incidentally happened because of Erik’s choices. This choice was made years and years ago by Erik and his friend, Vincent Castor, when they decided to spray paint Paul in the eyes. The reason
Things that all three flashbacks have show that Erik attacks only with at least one of his friend, they relate to Erik’s harassment on paul, and their parents never punished Erik. In the first flashback, he was getting
During the novel, Erik does many different things that demonstrate he is possessed or insane. In Tangerine, erik orders his slave, Arthur, to hit Luis Cruz with his blackjack. The book states, “I said, ‘I’ve already been in the right place at the wrong time, you low life creeps. You pathetic losers. I was under the bleaches on Tuesday afternoon.’ I raised my finger like it was loaded, and I pointed it at Arthur. ‘I saw you kill Luis Cruz.’.” This definitely proves that Erik Fisher is a maniac! Whereas, Paul is sane and talks his problems out with words not with grim actions. An example from the novel of Paul being sane, is when he found out he was getting kicked off the Lake Windsor soccer team. CRAZILY, he freaked out a little he didn’t take it extreme. Tangerine says, “I knelt down on that sideline, took off my sports goggles, and started to cry.” This takes place after Coach Walski kicks Paul off the team because he visually handicapped. Although, Paul has little meltdowns he stays calm, unlike Erik who is insane and does truly crazy
Jace Witherspoon is a determined, responsible, and secretive sixteen year-old teen. Throughout the whole story, Jace has one goal: to save his mother from the pain afflicted by his father. He never gives up on his objective, even when his older brother Christian was ready to move on. The mother soon rejects the brothers’ attempt to rescue her, and Jace is unable to cope with it, shedding many tears, showing how unyielding he was about the situation the whole time. Adding on the Jace’s character, he did not blame anyone for him hitting his ex-girlfriend except himself. This shows he is able to accept responsibility for his actions, not blaming Lauren even though she slept with his supposed best friend. This is where his brother sees the difference between Jace and his father; Jace knows that he is wrong...
Erik always gets more attention than Paul because he plays football and not soccer. He is spoiled because he never gets in trouble with his parents for hurting Paul. He likes to hurt whoever he pleases. Erik shows no respect to his family because he was the first born, the “golden child” and abuses his power to never get into trouble. Erik’s goon named Arthur is ordered to hurt Luis, one of Paul’s friends.
Luis’ words motivate and show Paul that he should stop fearing flat people like Erik and Arthur. Bloor reveals through Luis’ advice that Paul is forming into a more dynamic character. Paul realizes that Luis can help him get past his fear of them. Luis emphasizes to Paul that the boys are not all that they make themselves out to be, and he explains that by calling them “punks”.
His parents lied to Paul his whole life. They said, “ We wanted to find a way to keep you from always hating your brother.” Erik is a bully and blind to appropriate social behavior. Erik thinks he has discretion over everyone else. He is a star kicker for the High School football team, and hopes to play in college and then professional ball. He jokes about a football teammate being killed by lightning. Erik tells Arthur, his ball holder and sidekick goon, to punch Tino’s big brother Luis, and hits him on the head with a “blackjack” club. Luis then dies of an aneurysm about a week later. Erik is blind to how his actions affect others. He is not able to take accountability for what he does to other people. He is not accountable for the harm he has caused Paul, Luis, or anyone else. If he is good at football he acts like he can be an exception to the rules of
For my final essay, I have chosen the movie “Fatal Attraction”, and I will focus on Alex Forrest and her mental disorder. Borderline Personality was displayed in the movie and Alex had almost every symptom of this disorder. Throughout this essay, I will be discussing Alex’s characteristics, intelligence, motivation, stress, social influences and/ or personality theories, treatment, and if the depiction of the disorder and treatment is consistent with what was discussed and read in the course.
When it came time to pick a stage of development, I chose the stage of middle childhood. The movie that best depicted this stage of development to me was the 1991 movie “My Girl”. In this movie, you see a 11-year-old girl named Vada Sultenfuss going through a lot of psychosocial and cognitive changes in her life. She has grown up without her mother due to instant death when being born and she blames herself for her mother’s passing. Her dad is very absent in the upbringing of Vada, as he focuses most of his time and energy into his work as a mortician. Vada is surrounded by death due to the fact that they live in the house where her father constructs his business which is why her view on death is demented. When her dad becomes involved
I have chosen to review the film Boyhood written by Richard Linklater that took twelve years to film. In the movie Boyhood, it illustrates the life of a boy named Mason Jr. through the many stages of his childhood to adolescence to becoming an adult. The movie follows Mason Jr.’s life through his years of kindergarten, middle school, high school, and to college. Through these milestones in his life encounters society with socialization, culture and norms that are exhibited through his family, friends, and others. With factors of social classes, and gender that influence Mason Jr. as he grows and fits into the society that is formed. From the events and milestones in Boyhood, it is able to show human behaviour in society from our
Twenty years after its premiere, the movie remains a quotable classic. Laurie Ulster Mar 8, 2016 26 SHARES 23 0 0 Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her role as police chief Marge Gunderson in "Fargo." (Photo: Gramercy Pictures/Photofest) Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her role as police chief Marge Gunderson in "Fargo."
Stellios has Asperger’s Syndrome, suffers from depression and anxiety, experienced a series of seizures, and was then diagnosed as an epileptic. An outcome of Asperger’s syndrome is limited social skills, this has resulted in Stellios having a limited support network. Isabella attempts to encourage Stellios to explore new opportunities, but Stellios isolates himself from opportunities due to fears of failing.
Clearly, this information ties directly in with Lar’s early life. The town continues to play along and treat Bianca as one of their own, inviting her to parties and genuinely treating her like another human being when Lars is around. This seems to help Lars with his mental state. Eventually, he begins to tell the doctor a little bit of what upsets him. Being touched by another human causes him severe discomfort.
In the end Lars states that Bianca keeps getting sicker. Bianca eventually has a funeral and it appears to the audience that he begins a relationship with Margo, a coworker. The movie was very interesting and I enjoyed watching it. In the film we can see that Lars had some issues in his early developmental stages.