My Friend Dahmer is a vivid 1970s period piece, reeking of Mad magazine and acid rock, and with his trippy, expressive black-and-white drawings, Backderf shows how the sickness of that self-obsessed decade is somehow inseparable from the disease that drove Dahmer. With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and readers will never forget. In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche-a shy kid, a teenage alcoholic, and a goofball who never quite fit in with his classmates. To Derf Backderf, Dahmer was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer-the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper-seared himself into the American consciousness. Club, comiXology, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, MTV Geek, and more! You only think you know this story. This special edition of the national bestseller includes: Introduction by Marc Meyers, director of the FilmRise feature film, My Friend Dahmer 16 full-color pages of movie stills, storyboards, and behind-the-scenes photographs Named a BEST OF 2012 by Time, The Village Voice, A.V. It's worth a look, and Lynch's performance is quite something, but if you're already familiar with Dahmer's story, you won't find much insight here.The bone-chilling graphic novel that inspired the major motion picture starring Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer. The film also fails to really get into the issues of Dahmer's sexuality, and his confusion and frustration about being gay. nurture etc, trying to draw an audience into the narrative with the prospect of murder probably isn't the way to go about it. Also, if the film is actually trying to say something of societal worth regarding serial killers, directionless youth, nature vs. This is an especially strange way to generate tension, insofar as we already know his first murder was Hicks. Or is this simply a character study (if we didn't know it was about Dahmer, it could be any number of examinations of high school awkwardness)? The lack of clarity regarding the film's theme is compounded by the scenes where it looks as if Dahmer is about to murder someone, only to stop at the last second. But is Meyers asking us to feel sympathy for Dahmer because he had a difficult adolescence, came from a broken home, couldn't make friends in school. It's also difficult to see what Meyers was trying to achieve other than a couple of brief moments, we're never given any real access to Dahmer's interiority, so he remains an enigma, always at arm's length (which could have been the point). Narratively, however, it's extremely plodding, and could easily have been trimmed by 20 minutes. The film is tonally brilliant, coming across like The Breakfast Club (1985) directed by David Fincher, perfectly capturing 80s tackiness. Taking place over the course of Jeffrey Dahmer's last year in high school, and culminating with the fateful meeting between Dahmer ( Ross Lynch) and Steven Hicks ( Dave Sorboro), writer/director Marc Meyers's My Friend Dahmer is based on the graphic novel by John Backderf (played in the film by Alex Wolff), who attended the same school as Dahmer, and formed a pseudo-friendship with him.
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