The movie adapted from the memoir opens Friday in Phoenix. They grew up in the 1970s in Bath, Ohio, a suburb of Akron that is the definition of the cliche "bucolic." Bath borders the 33,000-acre Cuyahoga Valley National Forest it's so pricey now that Lebron James lives there.ĭerf produced two shorter versions of the book before the international best-seller was published in 2012.
That moment was also the beginning of a 26-year odyssey into the mind of his classmate at Revere High School in northeast Ohio. This was a guy I sat next to in study hall and gave rides home from school! I just left my cart and bolted out of the store. cover had a photo of Dahmer staring out at me. I glanced over at the magazine display and every. "I remember a week or so after his arrest, I was standing in the checkout line at a grocery store in Cleveland, where I live. "It was just total shock, followed by weeks of absolute surrealism. "I don’t think I had any thoughts," he wrote in an email interview from Amsterdam.
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While one of Derf’s friends does eventually start feeling bad about the way they’re treating Jeffrey for easy laughs, these are exactly the type of dumb things that kids got up to during those times.The final panel in John "Derf" Backderf's chilling graphic memoir, My Friend Dahmer, is a haunting portrait of the author after getting a call from his wife, a reporter in Akron, Ohio, that his high school friend had been identified as a serial killer and cannibal who had murdered 17 people, eating some of their body parts. The fact Lynch is able to create so much empathy for someone who will become one of the country’s most notorious murderers plays a large part in why this film should be taken seriously.Īlex Wolff and the rest of the young cast also do a suitable job as Jeffrey’s classmates, and as someone who attended high school during the times before cellphones and the internet, I can attest that Meyers’ ability to capture what that feels like is also quite impressive. At the same time, he’s beginning to explore his own sexuality due to his confusing interest in a doctor who jogs past his house. Lynch doesn’t have to do much to convey the loneliness and confusion of a teenager watching his family fall apart and who is unable to get much-needed approval from his father.
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If there’s one thing that everyone can take away from My Friend Dahmer, it’s the brilliant understated performance by Ross Lynch (star of Disney’s Austin & Ally TV series).
They begin to hang out with Jeffrey and start involving him in their pranks, the more elaborate one involving Jeffrey sneaking into the yearbook pictures for every one of his school’s clubs. This gets the attention of the school’s main troublemakers, including Derf (Alex Wolff from Patriot’s Day). His parents are constantly squabbling, driving him deeper into his shell until the point when he decides, for no particular reason, to freak out in an attempt to shake up his classmates. Most of the other kids ignore him, as he quietly collects roadkill to experiment on in a laboratory he’s created in a shack behind his house. Set in 1978, the film takes place during Dahmer’s senior year of high school in Ohio. In this case, and it you haven’t figured it out from the title, it’s a study of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in his senior year of high school, and it’s a very different movie than some might be expecting, since it’s more teen angst drama than horror or thriller. Marc Meyers’ My Friend Dahmer, based on John “Derf” Backderf’s autobiographical comic of the same name, is both, making it one of those rare movies like American Splendor that gives you a fine-tuned and specific view of a well-known person from someone who knew them. There have been movies based on true stories, just as there have been those based on comic books and graphic novels.
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