![]() It almost feels like a trick, one that uses well-worn dramatic techniques and familiar scenes to deliberately make us sympathetic to the struggles of an isolated, teased and misunderstood American teenager, right up to the moment when he starts murdering innocent people. There is an almost knee-jerk reaction to that, and it’s one that I occasionally felt when watching Meyers’ film. It is a challenging film in one key respect, but one that I suspect may lead some to find it a particularly difficult watch: it aims to make us feel sorry for a serial killer. He is now the protagonist of a dramatic feature film, My Friend Dahmer, directed by Marc Meyers and based on the graphic novel by John Backderf. ![]() ![]() Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer who, between 1978 and his arrest in 1991, raped, murdered and dismembered at least seventeen young men.
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