Lars and the Real Girl - 2007 - Craig Gillespie
Wow.
I had no idea this film would be so good.
Having watched the channel 5 documentary Guys and Dolls, I had imagined something very different.
Perhaps a cheap comedy, making fun of some of the loneliest people in our society?
“Sometimes I get so lonely I forget what day it is, and how to spell my name.”
But that isn’t what this film is.
It’s a warm and sensitive film about loneliness. Loneliness, hope and friends.
A man falls in love with a doll, Bianca, to the initial shock of his friends, family, and neighbours.
But soon enough the whole community come to embrace her presence, and all benefit from it alike.
The scene with the teddy is touching beyond belief. And Kelly Garner is kind of hot as the geeky girl, beaten to Lars’ affection by a highly engineered piece of silicon.
By the end you’ll be in tears.
the film which defines my mid-20s?
