Review: Robert Zemeckis' psychodrama 'Welcome to Marwen' is muddled, misguided — and weirdly compelling
On April 8, 2000, a U.S. Navy veteran named Mark Hogancamp was savagely attacked and beaten by five men outside a bar in Kingston, N.Y. His injuries were severe - "every memory kicked out of my head," he would later note - and he spent a year learning to walk and speak again. But while the assault cost him nearly everything, including his ability to draw, it couldn't stifle his creative impulse, which become the basis for an intuitive and ingenious form of therapy.
An array of dollhouse-like buildings sprang up outside Hogancamp's trailer home, a place he dubbed Marwencol, an imaginary Belgian town under attack
