For personal reasons, I have a subjective preference for this movie.
A film adapted from a live-action documentary, in a sense, "Welcome to Marvin Town" is no longer new as a feature film, and the core of the story of self-redemption of injured individuals is also very common, and the plot is routine.
But this movie hits me, and for me, it's a fun movie about making. The protagonist, Mark, used to be a cartoonist. After his injury, he was unable to draw, so he used his creativity to take stop-motion photos. If you think about it carefully, there are indeed many similarities between freeze-frame photos and comics. While playing with the dolls, the protagonist takes pictures of freeze-frame photos to tell the story. He is engrossed in the virtual and real small world he has created in front of him, those realistic pocket model scenes and props and toys, and those exaggerated hand-made dolls. The gestures and posing, everything is very warm, which directly awakened my lovely memory of those years of "playing with puppets". Creation is like this, spontaneous and conscious, some materials come from life, and some structures come from suppressed subconscious expressions.
The script is very particular, the standard hero's journey mode. The World War II story of the dolls (play-in-play), Mark's recovery and self-rescue in reality, the two stories go hand in hand. In the narrative, the two mirror and complement each other. struggling in the face of self) has partially merged again. The doll story has the shadow of "meta-creation", which is a poetic expression of the pain of reality. It is a metaphor for reality, but it reflects Mark's deep inner portrayal more clearly than reality. For example, the imagined blue-haired witch, the demon in Mark's subconscious, the blue pill is the root cause of his cowardice and cowardice, and it is also the evil force that he must overcome and abandon at the end.
Mark is chaotic, evasive, and withdrawn in reality, but in the doll world, his incarnation is Hoggie, a heroic officer who has experienced hardships, surrounded by beautiful women, and the contrast between the characters is worth pondering. Hoggie is both Mark's subconscious self-perfect expectation and his "real" partner in reality. So wherever he goes, Mark takes the doll Hoggie with him. This is a kind of companionship, a kind of self-protection, and actually a powerful self-defense and statement of courage. At the end of the film, Mark has reached a certain degree of "oneness" with the hero.
Some of the criticism lies in Mark's chaotic and distorted outlook and personality. The high heels eccentricity is indeed a bit morbid, indeed a bit wretched, and there is no excuse for this. As for love scenes, you just need to recognize that there is a gap between obscenity and reality. You fantasize and live with the goddess, but there are only female men around you who are interested in you. The sooner you understand it, the easier it will be to relax.
Take the opportunity to watch the documentary again.
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