Finally, a Real Love Story!
- Title: Lars and the Real Girl
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Hollywood loves contrived love stories with insane stipulations and “humorous” misunderstandings. Well I’ve got a little love story for you that knocks off the conventions of today’s chick flicks and presents an engaging, sweet, and enduring love story (between a man and his sex doll no less!).
Karin (Emily Mortimer) and Gus (Paul Schneider) are expecting a new baby, but the person Karin is most concerned with is Gus’s shy and awkward younger brother Lars (Ryan Gosling) who keeps everyone at arms length and seems to have trouble with intimacy and with social gatherings. And who is terribly lonely, whether he admits it or not.
Out of the blue Lars announces he has met a girl on the Internet who has come to visit. Bianca is a beautiful, smart, and kind paralyzed Danish-Brazilian missionary. She’s also a Real Doll (a lifelike and anatomically correct sex doll made of silicone) who Lars bought online. Now, given the state of gross-out humor popular today, you might think you know where the film is going, but you would be wrong.
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There seems to be a belief in Hollywood that if you make an incomprehensible film that looks pretty and add a twist ending that shocks the audience but doesn’t fulfill the needs of the movie to explain what is happening then you’ve met your obligation to the audience. Stay is an unfathomable mess of a movie that meanders its way through flashbacks, reversals, timestops, and fancy camera tricks. All well and good, but in the end the film has nothing to say. It’s as if we’re watching a film student’s exercise in using different film and storytelling techniques, but the professor forgot to look over his script to see that there is no story there. I went to see Doom on the same day I saw Stay and folks that’s enough to drive most people out of movie theaters for years. I don’t mind taking one for the team now and then, but two in ten hours…well, I wouldn’t wish that on even my worst enemy—maybe Rob Schneider and Carrot Top.