Everything about these two getting it on smacked of fiction and forced dramatics, including Rodney’s flamboyant dance with a skeleton. The film wastes a lot of time showing Dahmer seducing in a mean-spirited way the lonely and slenderly built African-American, Rodney (Kayaru), someone he met in a knife store and lured to his house by offering him drinks and companionship. They believe it’s merely a gay lovers’ spat and the Asian is only drunk. But the police refuse to believe Laotian youth is in danger and return him to the seemingly innocent looking Dahmer who returns from shopping and wraps his coat around him. Dahmer drugs his drinks and leaves him alone while he goes out shopping, but the drugged Asian ventures out to the street dressed only in his underwear and there he’s approached by two young black women who try to help recognizing he’s in trouble. It’s the torturous killing of a 14-year-old Laotian youth (Dion Basco) whom Dahmer lures to his apartment after buying him sneakers. The saddest murder, is the one that could have and should have been averted it is one that is documented as actually happening much like it was presented. If that’s truly the case, then it’s doubtful if anyone could have helped since he was reluctant to talk about himself. After Dahmer was apprehended, his family and acquaintances never suspected he was capable of committing such sickening destructive acts. That’s what makes this Dahmer story real scary as a comment on society more so than as a horror/crime story, as one wonders how many others are like him and how in the world can you deal with them.
Dahmer simply fell through the cracks of the system because no one could see how really demented and dangerous he was, as there seems to be no one to blame. Why Dahmer must kill and mutilate is impossible to say–even after viewing the film and seeing how the troubled young man related to his family and functioned at work.
In one scene when he’s older and has his rape vic in his apartment, the taciturn assembly line worker in a chocolate factory describes himself in the following way - “I’m a pervert, exhibitionist, masturbator, and killer.” Jacobson pictures him as an ordinary boy-next-door type who blends into the crowd, but for some inexplicable reason he is programmed to go off the deep end and take his alienation and inner anger out on others. To know what goes on inside his head is a thankless task, even though the film lets us hear his inner thoughts. Why the sullen and droll Dahmer can’t accept anyone’s friendship or help from his folks, is never ascertained. Dahmer resorts to murder after inviting a high school wrestler (Matt Newton) over to smoke pot while his folks are on vacation.
In a tasteful art-house fashion it arduously attempts to make inroads into Dahmer’s sick mind, as the film traces in flashback some of his crimes including his first murder victim when he was 18 and was still living in his parents’ house.
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The film to its credit does not sensationalize the gore, in fact it’s relatively bloodless for a serial killer flick. Dahmer was serving a life sentence (sentenced to over a thousand years) for murdering 17 males of various races, when the 34-year-old was killed in prison two years after his 1992 conviction. Instead, justice came to him in the hands of another prisoner. Dahmer should have been the poster boy for the death penalty. “It’s not that “Dahmer” was a bad film, which it certainly wasn’t, but it was a pointless one that was more unsettling than informative or penetrating.”ĭavid Jacobson’s docudrama “Dahmer” reenacts in dramatic form some incidents in the life of the psychopathic Jeffrey Dahmer (Renner), who was the infamous Milwaukee gruesome serial killer the newspapers had a field day with because of his penchant for dismembering his victims’ masculine genitalia and consuming them. DAHMER (director/writer: David Jacobson screenwriter: David Birke (uncredited)/from Lionel Dahmer’s 1994 book “A Father’s Story” cinematographer: Chris Manley editor: Bipasha Shom music: Christina Agamanolis/Marianna Bernoski/Willow Williamson cast: Jeremy Renner (Jeffrey Dahmer), Bruce Davison (Lionel Dahmer), Artel Kayaru (Rodney), Matt Newton (Lance Bell), Dion Basco (Khamtay), Kate Williamson (Grandma) Runtime: 102 MPAA Rating: R producer: Larry Rattner Peninsula Films 2002)
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