After being savagely beaten and left for dead in the street, artist Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carrell) begins rebuilding his memories by constructing a fictional WWII town called Marwen. Based on the true story of the life of artist and photographer Mark Hogancamp, in the hands of director Robert Zemeckis the emotion and poignancy of Welcome to Marwen ‘s stimulus is completely transformed into an action-packed, melodramatic, nostalgia fest. The critics’ main issue with Welcome to Marwen is that tonally it seems completely confused. A large majority of the film is made up of the motion captured Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds world of Marwen, which is overdramatic, fast-paced, and could be considered a parody of war/romance genre films. However, the reality of Mark Hogancamp’s life is the antithesis to life in Marwen. Living in a cramped, dingy bungalow that is stuffed with WWII artefacts, dolls, and memories of his past, PTSD-suffering Mark spends the majority of his days a...