Loneliness And Seclusion In Lars In The Real Girl

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Loneliness and seclusion are words that might be used to describe people with the schizoid personality disorder. People who have this disorder usually don’t mind this state of recluse, as they generally avoid relationships and emotion. In the movie “Lars in the Real Girl”, the main character, Lars, is observed as a lonely oddball, who lacks social skills and emotional complexity. Throughout the movie, traits of schizoid personality disorder can be found, and cause him to act in certain ways. Towards the end, however, one can see the traits of the disorder start to fade as Lars slowly breaks out of his self-concerned protective shell. Lars goes through a mental journey as his family and his town strive to meet his needs, in order to diagnose

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