Welcome to Marwen is based on the life and art work of Mark Hogancamp, a hate-crime sufferer who used art work as treatment.
To handle the aftermath of an incident that left him with profound psychological trauma in 2000, he developed Marwencol, a fictional 1:6 model World War II hamlet populated with dolls motivated by his real-life associates, neighbors, and even the attackers.
Jeff Malmberg’s award-winning documentary known as after the fictional metropolis featured him in 2010.
Because he couldn’t afford treatment (on account of Medicaid stopped paying for it), Hogancamp devised his private extravagant mannequin: growing an intensive fantasy world in his yard using dolls.
In Marwencol, director Jeff Malmberg locations Hogancamp entrance and center, enabling him to narrate his private story and expose plenty of the additional personal parts of his life at his private tempo.
Given its topic materials, Marwencol had the potential to be exploitative. But Malmberg holds once more, allowing the character of Hogancamp to drive the film comparatively than any contrivance or “story,” and it succeeds.
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