Lars And The Real Girl Essay

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When watching the film “Lars and the real girl”, many components of perception are given to us to observe and study. Lars suffers from a dissociative disorder keeping him away from interaction. Karin (Lars sister in law), tries to help understand Lars by attempting to invite him to dinner or family events. Due to the abuse that Lars endured from his father, he is now scarred and suffers from the delusion that Bianca (sex doll) is real. The scene where Lars introduces Bianca to his brother and Karin, we can observe the perspective that lars took into consideration when he compares his life to Biancas and with striking similarities. Negotiation deals with two parties coming together to with different views and then later one convinces the others to share the same views. In the scene where Dr. Dagmar is talking to Lars’ brother, Gus and sister-in-law, Karin, we can see that the two parties have clashing points of views. Gus and Karin did not desire to go along and pretend that Bianca (the doll) was an actual person just as Lars’ did. By Dr. Dagmar explains the situation to the couple and having them realize that the way to achieve satisfaction in helping Lars and his delusional disorder they would have to accept Lars the way he is as a mean to help him get over the disorder. This scene was a great example of …show more content…

Their views of the situations clashed, but then they came to an agreement to plan along and even got friends, and neighbors in the community to participate. Another scene with great example of shared narratives is when Lars is at Cindy’s Party, Cindy’s husband had insight of Lars and Bianca and despite the dislike of the situation, the couple and others at the party were able to keep most of the awkwardness discrete without terrifying

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