I'll definitely be looking into more of his projects. By the way: I want to give some praise to writer/director David Jacobson.
Please do so with an open mind - and not expecting the stereotypical Jeffrey Dahmer. But rambling on - I want to leave reader's with this.
And really succeeds in doing so in my opinion.
#Dahmer 2002 full synopsis movie#
This movie doesn't focus on Jeffrey the killer. But I figured a movie about him would want to focus on the killings for shock value. I mean I had read about him some and knew there was more to him then this psycho. Expected to see Jeffrey depicted as a homosexual lune - carvin/sexin' up guys left and right. Myself - being a big fan of the horror genre. And that's why I recommend watching it the first time with an open mind. But for some strange reason many moons later - I watched it again. The exquisite soundtrack pulsates with selected sounds conveying (sans images) violence and an electronic score of unnerving moodiness by Christina Agamanolis, Mariana Bernoski and Willow Williamson.The first time I viewed this film. Pic’s look is a vibrant, hard modernism of a refined sort, with the camera usually kept at a distance. Karayu, Basco and Newton as the black, Asian and white victims suggest Dahmer’s perhaps unconscious wish to slaughter the human race. Davison as Dahmer’s father gives off glints of suspicion, but, like everyone else, nary a grasp of the scale of the depravity before him. It’s a brave performance on every level, not only in the occasionally graphic displays of savagery but in a deliberate blankness that covers his character like a scum. Murder of Lance Bell (Matt Newton) is an act which startles Dahmer as much as his victim, and it’s here that Renner’s quiet characterization reaches full depth.Ī flat, slightly overfed and sleepy Midwestern style informs Renner’s Dahmer. Slow burn is beautifully handled in another flashback, which is punctuated by repeat visits to present, showing Dahmer’s first killing when he was still living at home. Otherwise, pic is almost startlingly matter-of-fact, supported by a keen sense of gradual build-up. This interlude, driven by light strobes and rapid montage, is the only one with a hint of sensationalism. Another flashback is triggered by Dahmer picking up young, cocky Rodney (Artel Kayaru) in a knife store and going to a gay bar where, a few years before, Dahmer had systematically drugged and raped dozens of male clubbers. An extremely effective and sustained scene with a younger Dahmer trying to hide his growing fetishes for mannequins from grandma (Kate Williamson) and Dahmer’s inquisitive father Lionel (Bruce Davison) encapsulates the growing-up stage and the faulty family life in a few minutes.
#Dahmer 2002 full synopsis series#
Thus begins a series of flashbacks that may be too numerous for the movie’s own good, but which fill in the details of this human monster. Not only does this sequence, shorn of all but the most essential talk, show how Dahmer managed to get away with his killings for several years, but it artfully places the viewer in a third-person position to observe such incidental but chilling shocks as Khamtay reviving in bed and finding the corpse of a black man beside him, or Dahmer going to his grandma’s house to dispose of a crow which has gotten inside her kitchen. Incredibly, Khamtay manages to get away, but Dahmer convinces skeptical Milwaukee cops that he’s just a friend who’s a bit out of it. Opening credit montage of assembly line at chocolate factory where Dahmer works in the early ’90s immediately tells viewer that this isn’t the Jeffrey Dahmer movie anyone is expecting, and with calm, precise efficiency, action moves right into Dahmer bringing a victim, Khamtay (Dion Basco), home for slow torture. It is quite enough, the film suggests, to show and not tell, albeit in a form that accordions and slightly fictionalizes the numerous deaths, fluidly interspersed with flashbacks. Pic is as interesting for what it leaves out as for what it keeps in, and most impressive of all is the absence of a moralistic perspective on the killing rampage that reached its climax in 1991. Throughout “Dahmer,” he displays a consistently confident approach, with a strong belief that the camera can show the surface layer of people, things and actions, and allow for meaning to gradually seep through. On Februin Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the world's most. R 1 hr 41 min Jun 21st, 2002 Drama, Horror. Jacobson, who enjoyed acclaim with features “Criminal” and “Roast Suckling,” is a writer-director worthy of serious attention. (2002) 'The mind is a place of its own.' TMDb Score.
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