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I would LOVE to see it!!

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I DEF think it's because Marwen bombed! The film is GOLD, but it's just so strange. Mark Hogancamp’s story is too sad. Welcome to Marwen will either be the demise of Zemeckis or it will be the technological stepping stone to make him GREAT again(I haven't seen his Witches remake yet)! Marwen has the most convincing special effects that I've ever seen in a movie! They really solved the problem of making a CG character seem “REAL”!

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Rebel Without a Cause, Sabrina, Love Me Tender, and Some Like It Hot…CINEMA in the 1950s! Roger Rabbit 2 could utilize the “ski-mask” tech that Zemeckis created for Welcome to Marwen and bring these STARS to life once again! I'm sure this would be the selling point for Disney!

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Welcome to Marwen, 2018, Robert Zemeckis. 

It's a sweet movie: a nice way to try to understand a person’s mind. A delicate line between reality and imagination where the dolls became in some way The Reality, they are the only way for the character to keep his life together after a traumatic event.

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Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010).

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“Welcome to Marwen”(2018)

Title: “Welcome To Marwen” (2018)

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Staring: Steve Carell, Merritt Wever, Leslie Mann, Janelle Monáe

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Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

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Run Time: 116 Mins

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Opening weekend Numbers: $2,366,560

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Screen it, Stream it or Skip it:

Skip it!

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Mark Hogancamp(Carell) is the victim of a brutal attack, leaving him with an inch of his life. This hate crime also took the majority of his memory before said attack. To help cope with the PTS of his trauma he creates an art instillation/world called “Marwen” using dolls that have similarities to the people closest in his life. He photographs and makes small adventures that coincide with his day to day. When the time comes to face his attackers in court Hogencamp uses “Marwen” to give him the “Rocket fuel” to seek justice and get his life back in order.

Unfortunately, this movie did little to nothing for me. In theory this story is very intriguing and the documentary ”Marwencol”(2010) and true story it’s based off of has very high ratings. Sadly, I think Carell and Zemeckis could not accomplish this. The story was Bombastic and dialog was bland and boring at best. The CGI scenes when in “Marwen” although dazzling to look at, couldn’t keep my interest and I found myself dozing off twice(being awaken by my fiancé, who was also irritated by the films slow moving story). 1👍🏻 out of 5 is what I can give this film.

Steve Carell did a fine job emulating the real Mark Hogancamp/Cap N’ Hogie. I don’t think the acting was the problem. I think that a human interest story is only good when it’s just that sometimes.Adapting a true story can be extremely difficult and adding instances and bits like giving his drug addiction one of the woman of Marwen dolls only creates confusion. I didn’t really understand what was happening in the film until about an hour in. We also don’t get enough background of any of the main characters that inhabit Marwen. This is where great actors like Janelle Monaé and Eiza González get lost. I also wasn’t a huge fan of Leslie Mann outside of her usual comedy role. I think she has an amazing range and can play many types of characters, but I just didn’t find this one to be something great for her.

The movie felt like it ran a little to long with no real climax to keep you hooked and I didn’t really find myself rooting for the main character. I did feel sorrow for his situation but the other Characters treated his high heel fetish as a condition rather then just something he was into. I do want to give this movie some type of commendation of showing different ways to pull through a bad situation, but the message alone wasn’t enough to save this film for me.

Overall, nothing really stands out to me in this film and I feel like you can skip it all together. I think that if you really want to learn more about this story you can see the documentary it’s based off of or try and catch the actual photos, if they are touring about in a gallery near you. But this is a hard pass for me.

Also, don’t forget that Instagram cuts my posts, so please follow the link in the bio to see my full review of “Welcome To Marwen”(2018).✌🏻

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Welcome to Marwen ★★

Who was the Hollywood screenwriter, producer, or bigwig who saw Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol (2010)—a bruising, heart-breaking film about trauma —and thought yes, this will make a perfect dramedic fantasy crowd-pleaser. It boggles the mind and the reasoning bits of the brain. For those who missed Malmberg’s documentary, it examines the art and recovery journey of Mark Hogancamp, a World War II illustrator who, on April 8, 2000 was brutally assaulted by five men in upstate New York after mentioning he was a cross-dresser. The savage attack gave him catastrophic brain damage, a nine-day coma, and complete amnesia of his pre-incident past when he woke up. After his insurance money for therapy ran out, he retreated back to the world of art but since the attack had crippled his fine motor skills, he could no longer draw. So he turned to photography instead, constructing a 1/6-scale World War II-era Belgian town entitled “Marwencol” in his front yard populated with dolls representing the people in his life. Marwencol served as the setting for photoshoots with his dolls where he exorcised his trauma, staging battles between Nazis representing his attackers and American GIs and Belgian resistance fighters (usually blonde Barbie dolls) representing himself and his real-life support community of friends and neighbors. Eventually the art world caught wind of Hogancamp’s extraordinary work, publishing a collection of his photography in Esopus magazine and eventually giving him an installation in Greenwich Village.

Now, eight years after the documentary, Marwencol has been given the Hollywood treatment, being handed off to none other than Robert Zemeckis, director of such hits as the Back to the Future franchise. Though frequently derided as terminally treacly, Zemeckis makes an odd sort of sense for the project, having considerable experience with traumatized characters: both Cast Away (2000) and Flight (2012) see characters recovering from near-death experiences. His Academy Award-winning Forrest Gump (1994) could even be seen as a logical precursor, following a protagonist who, much like Hogancamp, is alternatively ostracized and celebrated for his psychological otherness. Zemeckis’ casting choice of Steve Carell as Hogancamp was particularly promising, as Carell emerged from his tenure on The Daily Show as one of the most gifted dramatic actors of his generation, embodying a wounded, muted pathos rarely seen in Hollywood leads. Additionally, Zemeckis limited the scope of the film primarily to a minor event in Malmberg’s documentary where a post-attack Hogancamp unexpectedly proposed to a beautiful next-door neighbor after mistaking her compassionate attention for romantic affection. This decision to begin the movie in medias res of Hogancamp’s recovery frees the film from the traditional structure of top-heavy, award bait Hollywood biopics—we only glimpse his previous life in photographs and only see the assault in hallucinatory flashbacks. Though it ends happily with him appearing at the sentencing of his assailants and attending his Greenwich installation, these feel like perfunctory bits of unfinished business. The crux of the film is Hogancamp’s confrontation of his trauma in the wake of his disastrous proposal.

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Published on TheYoungFolks.com

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Welcome to Marwen (2018)

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Mark Hogancamp is an artist who uses handmade models and miniature sets as a way to tell stories and process his own experiences. After suffering a serious attack that affected his memory and ability to draw like he used to, he began building a detailed fictional world using 1/6 scale figures, mainly set during World War II. He photographs these models in carefully staged scenes, creating dramatic images that mix history, fantasy, and personal symbolism. A lot of his work reflects his trauma, fears, and recovery, but it’s shown through characters and stories instead of being directly literal. I think what’s really interesting about Hogancamp’s work is how he turns something like model-making, which could be seen as a hobby, into a powerful form of storytelling and self-expression, showing how art can be used in unexpected ways to heal and communicate ideas.