"It got caught in the crossfire...cow-llateral damage!"
Welcome To Marwen uses wonderful effects work to bring to life the subject's art installation photos into live-action vignettes but retaining the plastic nature of the dolls used to create them and to effortlessly transition between reality and the imagined. If this film were not based on a true story, it could have been constructed as a whimsical fable. However, real life is not compromised here, which offers up ideas that destabilise our sympathy for the main character (nevertheless extremely well played by Steve Carell), not helped by the confusing gender politics on offer. This may have been the film's intention, but it does make the film an odd and curious viewing experience that is hard to enjoy completely.
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