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What if art become a form of therapy? This film portrays the strory of this bizarre man using an extraordinariness and miraculousness of art as a therapy to help him able to cope with the expensive lesson he had learnt from the cruelty and heartedness of people who share the same world as himself. It is new, strange and conducts the super unfimiliar life circumstance of this man with such an enormous maniacal expression. A strange yet very beautiful documentary.

This straightforward, low budget documentary tells the weird, moving, and unforgettable story of Mark Hogancamp, a man who suffered severe brain trauma as the result of a beating by a gang of young thugs. As he struggled to get back mentally to where he had been before, he became obsessed with creating dioramas starring toy soldiers, and having them act out dramatic tales, which he would photograph. Eventually some people in the art world took notice of him, and he began having some success. It is wonderful to see that, but it is still quite sad to see a grown man walk down the side of a road pulling a toy Jeep full of toy soldiers whom he feels will protect him from danger.