![]() ![]() The film ultimately is about watching a morose child lose his grip on reality, but director Marc Meyers and Backderf find in Dahmer’s painful naivete moments of humor that draw a laugh even as they pull at your heartstrings and send a chill down your spine.įormer Disney kid Ross Lynch plays Dahmer as something other than the total tortured loser you may imagine. There’s no one single person or event to blame for Dahmer kidnapping and eating 17 young men his devolution here gets imagined as the cumulative effect of slights and bullying at school and neglect from his mentally ill mother (Anne Heche) and checked-out, emasculated father (Dallas Roberts). Backderf was a high-school pal of the boy who would grow up to become the serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. My Friend Dahmer, from a graphic memoir of the same name by the pseudonymous Derf Backderf, is a kind of coming-of-age tale that dissects a troubled kid’s descent into murder.
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