In the movie Lars And The Real Girl, Lars is a very unique person. He is really quiet and doesn’t like to interact or talk to people. He gets really awkward and nervous if someone tries to talk to him. He gets anxiety being around people, especially his brother Gus. Gus talks about how his father was very distant, similar to Lars. Throughout the movie you learn that he tries to avoid any social situations that he possibly can, and if someone does talk to them he usually ignores them and walks away. After the beginning of the movie Lars buys a sex doll, it comes in the mail and he believes it is a real person named Bianca. Lars stays in a house right next to his brothers but insists that Bianca stays in his brother's home. Taking note that most people in the town understand that Lars has a mental disorder, they react to this situation …show more content…
Lars shows signs of Avoidant Personality Disorder. So Lars shows signs of making himself thinks no one has any interest in him and that he feels like the odd one out pretty much. He also doesn’t like being touched. This is why he tries to avoid any social interaction also because he doesn’t want to feel like he will get made fun of. Therefore he bought Bianca, whom he thinks is real so the town and everyone goes along with it to help treat him for this and help him with his disorder. Lars treats Bianca like any normal human being, he dresses her, she “sleeps”, he takes her to the therapist, parties, and much more. At work, this girl Margo has a crush on Lars and he sort of understands and likes her back but it takes him a while to start getting comfortable around her. Later on Lars starts to believe that Bianca is going to leave him and that she is dying. He makes all of her decisions for her and about everything that happens to her and everyone in the town lets it happen to get Lars better. Bianca
A choice made by Erik affects Paul by causing his classmates and peers to view him as a freak because he has goggles and bad eyesight. This all incidentally happened because of Erik’s choices. This choice was made years and years ago by Erik and his friend, Vincent Castor, when they decided to spray paint Paul in the eyes. The reason
Jace Witherspoon is a determined, responsible, and secretive sixteen year-old teen. Throughout the whole story, Jace has one goal: to save his mother from the pain afflicted by his father. He never gives up on his objective, even when his older brother Christian was ready to move on. The mother soon rejects the brothers’ attempt to rescue her, and Jace is unable to cope with it, shedding many tears, showing how unyielding he was about the situation the whole time. Adding on the Jace’s character, he did not blame anyone for him hitting his ex-girlfriend except himself. This shows he is able to accept responsibility for his actions, not blaming Lauren even though she slept with his supposed best friend. This is where his brother sees the difference between Jace and his father; Jace knows that he is wrong...
His parents lied to Paul his whole life. They said, “ We wanted to find a way to keep you from always hating your brother.” Erik is a bully and blind to appropriate social behavior. Erik thinks he has discretion over everyone else. He is a star kicker for the High School football team, and hopes to play in college and then professional ball. He jokes about a football teammate being killed by lightning. Erik tells Arthur, his ball holder and sidekick goon, to punch Tino’s big brother Luis, and hits him on the head with a “blackjack” club. Luis then dies of an aneurysm about a week later. Erik is blind to how his actions affect others. He is not able to take accountability for what he does to other people. He is not accountable for the harm he has caused Paul, Luis, or anyone else. If he is good at football he acts like he can be an exception to the rules of
Being from Halifax, Nova Scotia, February is a cold time of the year for most but due to Jace’s rich Uncle Stavros he is able to take a break from his daily struggles. But since coming from a dark past and a distant relationship with his family, settling down and relaxing seems unlikely for Jace Antonakos. Jace is left with much to contemplate about since he is the middle child of three boys. Unfortunately for Jace, he gets minimal attention for having a “perfect” older brother, Stefan, and a younger brother with child disintegrative disorder
For Boyden, his girlfriend was all this. Boyden’s decision to put so much trust into her despite “...some of my friends said she didn’t deserve me” should've caused him to rethink doing so. When one is in love, they often overlook the flaws of their partners. While Boyden was oblivious to them, his friends could easily see those flaws. If Boyden had made the decision to listen to the advice of his friends, this entire incident could of been avoided. Nevertheless, the break up was sudden and came as a huge shock to Boyden who never expected it. To see someone whom he regarded as his reason for living suddenly abandon him caused a sudden spiral into depression. It is also during this time where we see Boyden jump in front of an oncoming car to attempt to end his life. This decision is the most impacting one which would have lifelong effects. Although Boyden could of seeked the support of family and friends, his choice to instead end his life shows how he had became “...too scared to live”. One can infer from this that Boyden no longer trusted people as of what happened with his girlfriend. Still reveling in the shock, his delusional mind probably thought that everyone would abandon him
I have chosen to review the film Boyhood written by Richard Linklater that took twelve years to film. In the movie Boyhood, it illustrates the life of a boy named Mason Jr. through the many stages of his childhood to adolescence to becoming an adult. The movie follows Mason Jr.’s life through his years of kindergarten, middle school, high school, and to college. Through these milestones in his life encounters society with socialization, culture and norms that are exhibited through his family, friends, and others. With factors of social classes, and gender that influence Mason Jr. as he grows and fits into the society that is formed. From the events and milestones in Boyhood, it is able to show human behaviour in society from our
For my final essay, I have chosen the movie “Fatal Attraction”, and I will focus on Alex Forrest and her mental disorder. Borderline Personality was displayed in the movie and Alex had almost every symptom of this disorder. Throughout this essay, I will be discussing Alex’s characteristics, intelligence, motivation, stress, social influences and/ or personality theories, treatment, and if the depiction of the disorder and treatment is consistent with what was discussed and read in the course.
Erik always gets more attention than Paul because he plays football and not soccer. He is spoiled because he never gets in trouble with his parents for hurting Paul. He likes to hurt whoever he pleases. Erik shows no respect to his family because he was the first born, the “golden child” and abuses his power to never get into trouble. Erik’s goon named Arthur is ordered to hurt Luis, one of Paul’s friends.
First of all he punched Tino really hard. Secondly, was involved with the killing of Luis. Lastly, Paul figured out Erik spray painted his eyes that cause his eye problem. The first reason that this character made a big impact on Paul was when he punched Tino in the face.
When it came time to pick a stage of development, I chose the stage of middle childhood. The movie that best depicted this stage of development to me was the 1991 movie “My Girl”. In this movie, you see a 11-year-old girl named Vada Sultenfuss going through a lot of psychosocial and cognitive changes in her life. She has grown up without her mother due to instant death when being born and she blames herself for her mother’s passing. Her dad is very absent in the upbringing of Vada, as he focuses most of his time and energy into his work as a mortician. Vada is surrounded by death due to the fact that they live in the house where her father constructs his business which is why her view on death is demented. When her dad becomes involved
Twenty years after its premiere, the movie remains a quotable classic. Laurie Ulster Mar 8, 2016 26 SHARES 23 0 0 Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her role as police chief Marge Gunderson in "Fargo." (Photo: Gramercy Pictures/Photofest) Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her role as police chief Marge Gunderson in "Fargo."
In the end Lars states that Bianca keeps getting sicker. Bianca eventually has a funeral and it appears to the audience that he begins a relationship with Margo, a coworker. The movie was very interesting and I enjoyed watching it. In the film we can see that Lars had some issues in his early developmental stages.
Clearly, this information ties directly in with Lar’s early life. The town continues to play along and treat Bianca as one of their own, inviting her to parties and genuinely treating her like another human being when Lars is around. This seems to help Lars with his mental state. Eventually, he begins to tell the doctor a little bit of what upsets him. Being touched by another human causes him severe discomfort.
Stellios has Asperger’s Syndrome, suffers from depression and anxiety, experienced a series of seizures, and was then diagnosed as an epileptic. An outcome of Asperger’s syndrome is limited social skills, this has resulted in Stellios having a limited support network. Isabella attempts to encourage Stellios to explore new opportunities, but Stellios isolates himself from opportunities due to fears of failing.