Female Film Critics 24/375
In recent years, visionary filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has become obsessed with experimental technology, particularly motion-capture animation. Now he turns his attention to the fantasyland created by an eccentric artist. Clumsily scripted by Zemeckis and Caroline Thompson, the film depicts Mark’s perverted perception of the world, superficially skimming over how he arrived at his point of view.
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Welcome to Marwen is dark and deep. For those who saw the 2010 documentary, Marwencol, the feature film is a welcome back with “welcome” used advisedly. It’s hard to feel welcomed to a world that, although therapeutic for one man, is strange for visitors. Both films are creepy, a little, and the feature film is dark and hard, a lot.
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It’s true that films based on true stories fall under harsh criticism due to lack of accuracy or addition of fictionalized characters that never existed in real life. But if that character or any part of the story told does not manipulate the truth, then it should be fine, isn’t it? Welcome to Marwen, co-written by Caroline Thompson and Robert Zemeckis and directed by Zemeckis himself, tells the true story of a man who, after surviving a brutal attack, finds his way to live through PTSD by creating a little world of his own known as Marwen.
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