http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/15/LARS-AND-THE-REAL-GIRL-Really-Charming.aspx Oh Ryan Gosling, darling of the indie movie scene, how you can show up on screen and carry a movie about a delusional man, Lars, whom falls for a plastic woman.  I know what you’re thinking—it’s Hollywood, all the women are plastic, and yes they are, but Bianca, is no regular woman, she is made totally from silicone and was ordered from the Real Dolls website on the internet.  This, my friends is LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, & Love is in the air. Lars is a real shut in.  He’s that lady that lives at the end of the block with 50 cats and never speaks to anyone.  That’s Lars in a nutshell.  Lars lives in the garage behind the house inhabited by his brother Gus (Paul Schneider) & his pregnant wife, Karin (Emily Mortimer).  The first quarter of the movie we determine that something is wrong with Lars.  The more people invite him to associate with them the more he retreats into the silence of his own thoughts.  Karin brings this up to Gus, but Gus says that’s Lars for you—he’s always been like that, just like their deceased father.  Karin persists on including Lars as apart of the family, but he only retreats further, that is, until Bianca shows up. Bianca, by the way, is a life sized sex doll, anatomically correct, of course, that Lars orders from the internet.  Lars tells his brother & sister-in-law that Bianca is wheelchair bound & fresh to the states from Brazil.  This is when the proverbial plane crashes into the mountain.  So Gus & Karin expect a human being, but they get plastic & pretend.  Gus tells Karin his brother belongs in the looney bin so together they get Lars and Bianca to visit the town general practitioner & psychologist, Dagmar (Patricia Clarkson).  Dagmar tells them that this entire charade is a delusion created by Lars & the best they can do is go along with it.  And then they tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on & so on, until the entire town decides to go along with Bianca as though she were always an important presence in their community. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/15/LARS-AND-THE-REAL-GIRL-Really-Charming.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/15/LARS-AND-THE-REAL-GIRL-Really-Charming.aspx#1851 this looks crazy cant wait to watch it.lol tinkluvspan http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/15/LARS-AND-THE-REAL-GIRL-Really-Charming.aspx#1851 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:18:53 GMT