"You won't be able to change his mind, anyway."

For my critical analysis piece I chose a total of three posts titled “Are you an insider.” My “movie talk” group and I were discussing different aspects of the movie “Lars and the Real Girl.” The movie was centered on the message of a loving community. My interpretation from the movie was that Lars, the main character, was afraid of letting people get close enough to hurt him. Although the community around him tried to accommodate his stand-offish personality, Lars didn’t open up until the delusion of his girlfriend Bianca arrived. Bianca, being a life sized doll, allowed Lars to have a companion that had no emotions and therefore an easier relationship. Bianca eventually allows everyone in the town to let their own fears fall away but it isn’t until the end of the movie that Lars let’s go of her altogether. This movie created many questions about insiders vs. outsiders in the community hence, my first post.

My original post shows how I blended the lives of the characters and my own relation to the characters. “I felt like an outsider in the movie.” The movie, being almost too awkward to bear, opened my eyes to see how much of an outsider I felt like just watching it! So I turned the conversation upon myself and my community. Lars was afraid of getting close to people, and here I was watching deep and powerful moments in someone’s life with no background.

The response I got from Romona Liberty caused me to analyze the ending of the movie in relation to the acceptance. The movie was hard to pick apart because there was so much emotion involved but I eventually came to the conclusion that Lars was the one who actually had to accept the community. She stated that “this movie is more about the acceptance of people that our social groups deem "different," and I would have to say that although Lars is painfully socially distant, he is the one who has to allow his community into his life.

This movie gave me a great chance to analyze and pick apart all the different pains in life and its effects on communities. I am not speaking for all communities when I say that it’s socially unstable residents are the ones who need to be more accepting, but when it comes to “Lars and the Real Girl,” I would. Please go watch this movie. It’s wonderful, quirky, and full of truth.

The bolded areas are the parts where I feel I analyzed and synthesized.