Review of Welcome to Marwen (2018) by Purplecrayon4U — 30 Mar 2019

A Fantastic Yet Difficult Story To Convey - An Effort Worth Viewing.

This was a difficult story to tell, as the subject matter could have been told to an R-rated audience or a PG-13 audience, and Robert Zemeckis chose the latter. Now, Robert Zemeckis is one of the greatest storytellers ever, whether it be through Screenplay, Directing or Producing-he has been the source of some of the greatest films in the 20th and 21st Century. Welcome to Marwen is a complex tale that involves issues of war, violence, hate crime, drug addiction, alcoholism, suicide, mental health-just to name a few and Mr. Zemeckis combined all those subjects to tell a story of a man who overcame all that and more. Those that can relate to the issues experienced by Steve Carell's character, the feeling of being alone and of isolation, are the folk that really enjoyed this film.

I rarely address what others review about a film, but Welcome to Marwen was butchered with bad reviews in which 90% of the reviewers have no education nor experience in reviewing films but spew their garbage out for the world to see because they saved enough of their allowance to buy a domain and a website. Welcome to Marwen in no way deserved such negative response, and it is in my opinion that not only were more positive responses held back but that an orchestrated campaign to hurt the film's reputation was also at play.