Not until it’s too late.īogged down by the lab, Dad wants Jeffery to be a tough guy-lift weights and date girls.
What do they even like? How do they feel? No one asks Dahmer if he is alright. You don’t know enough about them to know what they would or wouldn’t do, what they are capable of. Maybe you’ve never had a friend who you thought wanted to kill you, but you recognized their emptiness and the uncomfortable unpredictability. However, the interest wasn’t welcomed and Dad didn’t want a son-like-father situation. That’s what Backderf felt and that’s what the movie aims to make us feel.įrom the outside looking in, Dahmer’s life and interests were set up to be almost perfect, in that he had a chemistry-obsessed father and didn’t have to buy flesh-eating beetles or something. Like when a deer can sense danger, when their ears rise and they realize they are being hunted. Even if you can’t relate to ever being a weird kid, did you ever meet a true stranger? Someone you just couldn’t pin? There are just, feelings-intuition if you will. Maybe that’s what won me over the most in the film: Ross Lynch’s look and impersonation of the dark and strange teenager full of angst and confusion as featured in the novel. Shortly after discovering his murderous path and of his death in 1994, Backderf began working on a non-fiction graphic novel about him. Backderf was a high school friend of the real Jeffery Dahmer, literally. And that’s where it all started for Dahmer-roadkill and acid-according to the film based on Derf Backderf’s graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer (2012). I mean really, I love taxidermy and bones. I actually sort of relate to him having a dead animal obsession-strange then, although now it’s practically a common hobby. I empathize with Dahmer’s rejections and being practically invisible.
I need to talk about everything.Īfter watching My Friend Dahmer, I felt full of questions.
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