I don't know how this slipped past me till this point, and of all places I had to see my first glimpse via Entertainment Tonight, but Ryan Gosling's new movie called Lars and the Real Girl is looking just wonderful. It's currently slated for a limited release October 12/07. The premise is simple if not odd, Lars (Gosling) brings his girlfriend that he met on the Internet to supper with his brother and his wife. She was a missionary at one point, and later when his brother is sick he offers her (her name is Bianca btw) assistance since she trained as a nurse for a while. The catch is, Bianca is a blowup doll that he dresses up and pushes around town in a wheelchair. The rest of the town seems to be weary at first but the comes to humor him in his delusion.
I can't really be sure where the movie is heading or what moral battle it's trying to fight if any, it didn't seem from the trailer that his actions made some other local girl realize she was madly in love with him and then they start their romance etc etc. And I for one hope that's not the case, it's too simple and frankly a cop out to make that the resolution of the movie. If you're going to have a guy pushing around a blow-up doll that he thinks is real, no girl is going to fall in love with this psycho anyway so that's even less likely to happen. I guess we'll have to wait to be sure but I'm definitely looking forward to watching Gosling work his magic again, the man needs more roles, he always hits them straight out of the park and he is most certainly not a one role type of guy he can play anything out there. I'm starting the call now, Gosling for The Flash, if Ryan Reynolds won't do it...The Gos will!
And not that I'm advocating smoking, but in that pic he just makes it look cool as balls.
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I. Love. Him.
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