Thursday, 11 September 2014

Lars and the Real Girl


Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
2007
Countries:
Canada… United States…
Predominant Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Craig Gillespie…
Outstanding Performances:
None.
Premiss:
A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.
Themes:
Alienation | Christianity | Compassion | Pornography | Emotional repression | Loneliness | Personal change | Self-expression | White culture | White guilt | White supremacy
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Unknown
Review Format:
DVD

An exploration of the many failures of human communication: A story that could only be the product of a materialistic Western culture.

Here the mental illness symptomatic of loneliness is writ large: A man transfers his affections and needs to a plastic sex doll. Pornography, the objectification of women, paranoia and fear of-intimacy are contrasted with genuine human interactions in a tale both extremely funny and intensely moving. This is a film about growing up and learning right from wrong; saying that this is difficult in an immature culture.

This movie is not merely about tolerance but true acceptance, since the doll is not a threat to anyone but an unreasoned attempt to gain love. That the small community here eventually rallies round is a paean to kithship, as such, and to true Christian values, in particular.

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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.