I Found a DVD of this movie at the library and by now I've seen most of the movies they have that I expect to be any good. I didn't expect to find anything worth watching when I found My Friend Dahmer. And I still didn't expect it would be as good as it turned out to be and began watching it still thinking that. I was probably half way though the movie before I realized that what I was watching was top quality in what you would expect a great movie to be. This wasn't just some low cost production movie with untalented nobodies. Except for Anne Heche, everyone in this movie may be unknown, but their acting talent was superb. Therefore, after I had watched it once, I had to watch it again from the beginning, more closely. Because by then I could take this movie more seriously.
The story really captivated me. I assumed Dahmer as a totally different person than what the movie revealed about him. He was weird, that is true, but weird in a way that actually made him quite popular and liked by many of his classmates, though many of the girls may have put off by his weirdness. The movie doesn't explore anything about when and how he murdered anyone because this only tells what he was like before he committed his first murder, though by this time he was into mutilating and torturing non-domesticated animals like squirrels and rodents. He is shown at one phase where he is in the woods with a knife to the throat of a very beautiful and trusting white dog about to cross that threshold when he breaks off from his intention and releases the dog and shoos him away. The scene made me cringe. We know that he will someday give in to his desires and go on to kill 17 people and we expect that to include many animals like that dog he had let go. But before he does, we find out what he was really like before he became so infamous. Infamous he became, but after you watch this, you may come away not hating him, but actually liking him for the .boy that he was.
I really recommend this movie very highly.
The story really captivated me. I assumed Dahmer as a totally different person than what the movie revealed about him. He was weird, that is true, but weird in a way that actually made him quite popular and liked by many of his classmates, though many of the girls may have put off by his weirdness. The movie doesn't explore anything about when and how he murdered anyone because this only tells what he was like before he committed his first murder, though by this time he was into mutilating and torturing non-domesticated animals like squirrels and rodents. He is shown at one phase where he is in the woods with a knife to the throat of a very beautiful and trusting white dog about to cross that threshold when he breaks off from his intention and releases the dog and shoos him away. The scene made me cringe. We know that he will someday give in to his desires and go on to kill 17 people and we expect that to include many animals like that dog he had let go. But before he does, we find out what he was really like before he became so infamous. Infamous he became, but after you watch this, you may come away not hating him, but actually liking him for the .boy that he was.
I really recommend this movie very highly.
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