Lars And The Real Girl Analysis

Distressing and unfortunate events can create lasting effects. Past experiences play a significant role in how an individual’s personality is shaped. Through the opening sequence of the film, Lars and the Real Girl, Craig Gillespie reveals the reclusive and childlike character of Lars Lindstrom. The opening sequence uses various visual techniques and little dialogue in order to reveal and establish Lars’s character and personality.

There comes a time in the second act of Dear Evan Hansen when the sound of the audience's sniffles seem to overpower the sound radiating off stage. The Broadway Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, follows the anxiety driven title character as his lie about a close friendship with a classmate who killed himself spirals out of control. Under the advice of his doctor, he often writes letters to himself, hence, the title of the musical. What had initiated as an innocent misunderstanding soon becomes darker once he is pushed closer with the dead boy's parents and sister (whom he falls in love with). As a member of the show's audience last week, I can most definitely say that this show has changed my life; it has left of positive influence on the way I view the world, especially as a young adult.

Based on Rosalind Wiseman's non-fiction book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, the 2004 movie, Mean Girls, was directed by Mark Waters and the screenplay was written by Tina Fey. Through the use of cinematography and music, the viewers were able to experience the real high school society. Mean Girls is about a sixteen-year-old homeschooled girl and her first-time experience at a public high school. Through his movie, Walters portrays the damaging effects of female social cliques on every student in high school.

“Cold, shiny, hard, plastic.”, one of the most popular quotes from the movie, Mean Girls. Mean Girls is a teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and screenplay by Tina Fey. This film is loosely based on a book called “Queen Bees and Wannabees” by Rosalind Wiseman which is a self-help book that describes all of the cliques in high school and how they can have a huge effect on girls. But the movie itself is about the sociopolitical climate of the average American “high school”. The movie was made in 2004 and set in Evanston, Illinois, but the film was shot in Toronto, Canada. The film stars Lindsey Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and many more comedic actors and actresses. I chose to do an analysis on the movie, Mean Girls, because I wanted to see if people would agree with my perspective, which is that this movie does correctly show the real life mean girl situations and how girls can overcome the popularity contests.

Sarah got Bella 's text and went down stairs to let her in for their sleepover. They went up to Sarah 's bedroom. "So is there any boys you have a crush on Bella?" Asked Sarah giggling. Bella nervously responded,

Film industries have been critiqued over their portrayal of mental illness for as long as the field of Psychology has been around, and rightly so. Films often inaccurately portray mental illnesses for the sake of dramatic effect. They will stereotype characters, label them as ‘crazy’ and unstable, and in the case of Silver Linings Playbook, cast the therapist in an uncaring, trigger happy, and unprofessional role. Psychologists are just in their outrage, because the effect on public understanding of people with mental illness is damaging, to both normal people and those who have a mental illness. To explore these issues in Silver Linings Playbook, we need to first, introduce the psychological disorders that are in the film, examine the

The film Lars and The Real Girl is revolved around a withdrawn man who longs for a meaningful relationship after years of abandonment. The story is heartwarming and implements openness to change and acceptance. Lars’s character and his relationships with the real girl and the community’s response played a major part in his crisis. The movie gave a good demonstration that implemented an unconventional alternative to help Lars. Lars’ disinterest in relationships, his childhood trauma, and triggers of distress played an important part in creating a formulation as to what has happened to him, rather than what was wrong with him.

In general, Wintergirls made me feel a bit more educated on a subject I didn't necessarily understand in the first place. Although I’ve only known one person who struggles with an eating disorder, multiple of my close friends have struggled with self harm or self mutilation. Wintergirls is indeed fiction, but Laurie Halse Anderson writes in such a way it feels extremely real. Teenagers today are really struggling self image because the society we live is unforgiving. Things like weight and clothing are taken so seriously and it's kind of ridiculous. Seeing Lia’s point view really opened my eyes as to why people hurt themselves. They feel trapped or like nothing can save them. After reading I feel kind of dumb being

Nancy Oliver’s movie Lars and the Real girl depicts a story that shows of a life that is lost and confused. Lars, a 27 year old man, does not have decent social interaction with others. He struggles with family and social encounters. He has a brother named Gus who is married to Karen. They are soon expecting a child on the way. Gus and his wife live in the house of Gus’s deceased parents. Lars lives out in the garage on their property. Soon on into the movie Lars gets a girlfriend that he supposedly meets online and tells his brother about it. Gus and his wife soon realize what online meant when they met his girlfriend Bianca. Bianca is actually a life-size doll. Lars treats her as normal and even tells Gus and Karen about her life as a child.

exaggerating symptoms and stereotyping individuals with a mental disorder. For example, Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Psycho, in which man with schizophrenia murders guests in a hotel, influences viewers to believe that all individuals suffering from schizophrenia are dangerous. However, that is rarely the case (Polatis, 2014). Therefore, it is refreshing to find a movie that accurately portrays the true personality of and individual living with a mental illness. The movie Silver Linings Playbook chronicles the experiences of Pat Solitano, a man suffering from undiagnosed bipolar disorder who was recently released from a psychiatric facility. Although this paper focuses on Pat’s experiences, it is important to note that the film not only takes on the task of portraying bipolar disorder, but also mental illness in general with other major characters suffering from a mixture of psychological or personality disorders. The film opens with Pat at Karel Psychiatric Facility in Baltimore, Maryland. We later learn that Pat was institutionalized for nearly beating to death the man with whom he caught his wife Nikki cheating on him. The rest of the film details

The movie, Girl, Interrupted, displays Susanna Kaysen’s eighteen-month stay at a mental institute in the 1960s. This film was an adaptation of a book based on a true story of the main character and author Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was checked into Claymore, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. At first, Susanna denies this blatant attempt at suicide and constantly struggles with uncertainty of her thoughts and emotions. Although Girl, Interrupted exhibits several mental disorders one of the most prevalent disorder of this film is Susanna’s Borderline Personality Disorder. This film depicts majority of the signs and symptoms of a person with Borderline Personality. As stated in the textbook, “the lives of persons with borderline personality are marked by instability. Their relationships are unstable, their behavior is unstable, their emotions are unstable, and even their images of themselves are unstable” (Larsen and Buss 593). Susanna’s romantic relationships are extremely unstable and she frequently engages in casual sex. She jumps from one guy to another in a matter of few weeks. One scene that establishes this the most is when her boyfriend at the time comes to visit her at Claymore and expresses his true feelings for her and she instantly withdraws. He asked her to go to Canada with him and she turns him down immediately. She also kisses Lisa who she befriends at the mental institute, displaying a switch of

The character of Lars seems to be a fantastical person who couldn’t really exist in real life. Truth is, there are many people like him who struggle to have relationships with others due to mental illness. Lars is able to find a way to channel his insecurities of personal relationships onto Bianca, whom is a realistic looking sex doll. Ironically, Lars never has sex with Bianca, he treats her as a real human being and forces his community to accept Bianca in ways he never imagined. This acceptance from the community turns out to effect how Lars views Bianca over time, and they unknowingly help Lars grow to have feelings for a real girl named Margot.

Girl, Interrupted (1999) directed by James Mangold is largely based on a semi- autobiographical book by the same title. The movie chronicles eighteen year old Susanna Kaysen’s experiences surrounding her stay at a mental institution. It is 1967, a time of social change and unrest. Susanna makes a half-heart attempt at suicide, ingesting a bottle of aspirin and chasing the pills with a bottle of vodka. She is taken to the emergency room, her stomach is pumped and she survives. Afterwards she meets with a psychologist who explores her more recent feelings and experiences. The psychologist concludes, with her parents assent, that she would benefit from a stay at Claymore, a private mental institution. The next year and nine months forever

In the movie Girl, Interrupted the plot surrounds a period in the life of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder who was institutionalized at the Claymore mental hospital in the 1960s. In the movie, the main character Susanna is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and undergoes treatment to which at the end of the movie she is released. It is at this hospital that Susanna encounters many other patients of which she shares many experiences with. One of these patients was the longtime resident and popular amongst all the other patients Lisa Rowe played by Angelina Jolie whom Susanna became close with and would mid-movie escape the hospital with to only return on her own and find that Lisa would be back a few days later. Lisa, while being the protagonist of the movie, was very charismatic in her own way and based on her behavior and revelation in the movie is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, particularly a sociopath in the movie.

Girl, Interrupted is a captivating and striking film about the struggle of coming to terms with mental health and overcoming personal obstacles to allow treatment and support. While the main character Susanna Kaysen stays in the Claymoore psychiatric hospital, she is introduced to a whole new world, one where she is forced to confront the fact that she has a mental illness and needs professional help.