This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2010 SXSW Film Festival.
"Marwencol" opens the way I might imagine the fleeting final seconds of memories would flood through the mind of a G.I. Joe figurine before meeting its maker. There's a montage the includes the daily raising of the flag, that time Joe made it with one of the nurses, the day he shuffled off the battlefield wounded with the help of a medic. And then director Jeff Malmberg pulls back to show there's a man in the background documenting all of it with a digital camera.
Moments later, we realize these could've just as easily been the images that passed through Mark Hogancamp's consciousness as he was laying bloodied and beaten outside of a bar in Kingston, NY. Hogancamp, the man with the camera, had been left in a coma and lost much of his memory...
"Marwencol" opens the way I might imagine the fleeting final seconds of memories would flood through the mind of a G.I. Joe figurine before meeting its maker. There's a montage the includes the daily raising of the flag, that time Joe made it with one of the nurses, the day he shuffled off the battlefield wounded with the help of a medic. And then director Jeff Malmberg pulls back to show there's a man in the background documenting all of it with a digital camera.
Moments later, we realize these could've just as easily been the images that passed through Mark Hogancamp's consciousness as he was laying bloodied and beaten outside of a bar in Kingston, NY. Hogancamp, the man with the camera, had been left in a coma and lost much of his memory...
- 9/2/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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