'Lars And The Real Girl' is about a young man who is disillusioned into thinking that the woman that he created on the internet is real. With a mother who died giving birth to him, an absent father, and a brother who acted like everything was fine...Lars never really knew what love was...or who he was. So he created a woman that he thought would fulfill him...
His family take him to a doctor who believes that he is not mental, just trying to find love...in an unorthadox way. She helps him just by simply...listening.
This movie is a beautiful story of family and community. Instead of the family putting him into a mental hospital and the community outcasting him...they love him no matter what and take him and his New Girlfriend in.
One of my favorite lines is when Lars' gilfriend gets "deatly sick" a group of ladies from his church come over and start knitting and cooking for him. Lars sits with them and asks, "Do I need to be doing anything?" And one of the ladies answers...
"No, this is what we do when tragedy happens. We come over and we sit."
By having this fake woman, Lars finds out that he is loved by his family and friends and that he no longer has to pretend...because he now knows how to love. 
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