How pleasantly surprising that the prurient material didn't resort to obvious development! (I had hoped to share some 20th-century correspondence on the subject but currently don't have access to the archives. Suffice it to say that my thoughts of Real Doll's then-new website was less sensitive to the exploration of the human condition in this movie. Perhaps the lesson from Lars is there's a natural tendency towards overcoming one's weaknesses and self-healing, whether it's by blood clotting or spending $7K on the Internet …hmm, seemed to have veered off and forgotten I was amidst parentheses.)