Movie Review: "Lars and the Real Girl"

The stories centers around Lars, a shy delusional young man in a small northern Midwestern town, who purchases a sex doll. Lars lives a quiet life working at a mundane office job and lives in a garage apartment next to his brother and sister-in-law. In his intense search for intimacy, he constructs a fantastic platonic relationship with his doll “Bianca.” In an attempt to not offend Lars, friends and family pretend to interact with his doll. The concepts of intimacy, maturity and mercy are slowly developed through the film.

Ryan Gosling and Nashville native Paul Schneider give better-than-average performances as Lars and his brother Gus. The movie is comical and inciteful.