Lars Lars and the Real GirlSociopathic loser has a delusional relationship with a sex doll (who talks with him). The entire town PLAYS ALONG and perpetuates his delusion. All he needs is a good punch in the face.
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Lars has fallen madly in love with a fuck doll. She "talks" to him, he talks back, he is completely oblivious to the realities of the situation (in spite of having just purchased said fuck doll for a few grand from a porno site a month earlier). We're lead to believe that by playing along with this craziness the otherwise sane characters are helping Lars work out his problems. But suddenly his devoted relationship tragically ends. The fuck doll "dies" of a made up disease. Complete with medivac, hospital stay, and full service church funeral (who paid?). It's implied that this is a positive development, because it symbolizes that Lars is "over" his SOCIOPATHIC-PSYCHOTIC DELUSION and ready to get real... Bunnies and rainbows.
What the movie casually glosses over, if you follow the logic that Bianka's "thoughts, actions, and words" are really Lars' delusions working themselves out, is that Lars KILLS the real doll when she's no longer convenient.
He had begun to fall madly out of love with "Bianka", when a casual remark at a party full of friends kindly PLAYING ALONG WITH HIS DELUSION, sets off feelings of insecurity, as if he might lose his inanimate, submissive, sex doll to someone else (must be high demand for sloppy second fuck dolls). This is accelerated by an episode where one of the church ladies (who's also playing along) takes Bianka off to "volunteer at the church" AND HE WANTED TO PLAY SCRABBLE WITH HER GOD DAMNIT!... Lars has a nuclear meltdown and breaks things, he can no longer control her every move. The final nail in the anatomically correct coffin is when Lars realizes that he's jealous of a real life girl who's finally given up on persistently, relentlessly, and hopelessly chasing his crazy ass (after he started dating the fuck doll).
Suddenly, oh look, oh no, Bianka is sick. Oh no she's dying. Oh no she's dead. PSYCHO. KILLER. This is a drawn out, planned, highly visible murder of a fuck doll. The entire movie has been built around humanizing this thing, and then, oh goodie she's dead... everyone's better.
Any real friend would have immediately tore off the dolls head
to prove to Lars that it was a fake plastic doll.
Empathizing with, and perpetuating his abusive objectification and delusional perversion of both women and relationships, is equivalent to empathising with John Wayne Gacy fucking little boys to death.
We all have problems, most of us don't force them on the world, and hopefully none of us have entire town pushing us down the dark spiral of dangerous delusions of grandeur and latent psychological violence. This man needs a padded room. Not friends. Certainly not a relationship.
Lars gets 8 punches to the face out of 10.
And 20 years behind bars. For attempted first degree murder and attempted rape in the first degree. "Attempted" because, despite the whole world's belief to the contrary, Bianka is plastic.
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