Some may argue that Jacobson comes dangerously close to asking for sympathy for the devil.
We see his revulsion at first when he must hack the body to pieces on the kitchen floor but it quickly turns to indifference. Dahmer picks up a hitchhiker and eventually kills him then must figure out a way to dispose of the body. Perhaps the best scene concerns his first murder. After convincing his father that it contains pornographic material we are shown that, in fact, it contains a human head. You're at the bottom.' Another gripping moment occurs when a young Jeffrey is afraid to let his father see the contents of his old chemistry set. As he later tells Rodney 'You're just mad because you're gay and black. This scene, in particular, points out the inherent racism and homophobia that allowed Dahmer to go undetected for so long. One is the now infamous occasion when one of Dahmer's would be victims manages to get away, but in a drug induced state, only to be handed back to the killer by the police. There are at least three other scenes worth mentioning in this horrifying yet fascinating story. Rodney innocent of the fact that a fresh kill is lying in the bed in the next room. In the main thrust of the plot we see the night Jeffrey Dahmer crossed his path and lured him back to his apartment. Artel Kayaru does an excellent job as Rodney, the close call that gets away.
Jeremy Renner does a capable job of portraying Dahmer without playing it as a caricature. Would be thrill seekers be forewarned this is neither a slasher movie nor a detective story. On the contrary it only adds to the sickening feeling in the pit of your stomach that a person is really capable of such acts. This does not make it any easier to watch. Jacobson wisely avoids exploiting most of the grislier details of the slayings and instead focuses on the personality behind the killer and his social interaction with victims and family members. Through a mix of flashbacks interspersed with later events we see the journey of how this outwardly benign and thoroughly unremarkable human being turned into a remorseless monster.
#Dahmer 2002 movie plot serial#
Director/writer David Jacobson tells the story of one of America's most infamous and gruesome serial killers.
0 kommentar(er)
