Saturday, May 9, 2009

Lars and the Real Girl

Ryan Gosling

An Amerindie fable set in the northern midwest. Lars buys a sex doll, treats it like his new girlfriend and, to humor him, so do all the people in his small town.

This walked a very fine line between precious and absurd. The theme was tolerance, acceptance and the willingness of a community to help a local guy get through a hard time. Not particularly realistic...this was more a dramatization of the type of community we would all like to live in, the type of people we would all like to be. Like the village in Local Hero or the one in Seducing Doctor Lewis. If only...

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