Here's a movie to put on your Netflix list: Lars and the Real Girl.
It's a funny movie about a fellow who buys a life-size blow-up doll, and falls in love with it. It sounds creepy, but it turns out to be one of those heart-warming, life-affirming movies that we all need once in a while. I had never heard of it until it was recommended by a friend, so of course everybody else has probably seen it already.
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To me, the fact that everyone in town went along with the "delusion" is what made it so funny! Maybe it is possible in a small community ... or maybe we would like it to be possible.
In the end, Lars gets healed ... and without Bianca and his community helping him by allowing him his "delusion", his healing wouldn't have happened.
Hi Poetikat,
Thanks for your comments. I recognized your name from Midlife by Farmlight, but did not know you were a Leonard and Kate fan, too! That's a rare combo, I think. If you didn't spot it earlier, you might want to see my "An Evening with Leonard Cohen" post earlier this month. I have no posts about Kate Bush because I am a happily married man and want to keep it that way.
I was fully prepared to be creeped out by the blow-up doll, but the "relationship" was so chaste (as Lars says, she was a conservative, religious girl) that I was able to get over it, mostly.
A significant premise of the movie is that people are kind, and want to do the right thing. This is preposterous, of course. But I was charmed every time I expected something ugly to happen, and it did not.
So I agree that the movie was not believable, but I was able to suspend my disbelief enough to laugh and enjoy a movie about people who cared for each other, even when caring took them places they never thought they would go.
Good people can disagree, I hear.
Anybody else see it?
No, I haven't seen it, but now would like to. Gotta love a guy named Lars. Was MinneSOta the setting for this film?
Jeannelle,
The exact location of the film was not disclosed. It could have been MinneSOta. It was filmed in Ontario, I think.
Sempringham
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