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Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend.

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вЂњOnce Dahmer kills, however вЂ“ and I canвЂ™t stress this enough вЂ“ my sympathy for him ends. Meyers eschews BackderfвЂ™s troubled omnipresent narration, but he remains rooted in the source material, by working certain panels into shots of the film and by honouring the authorвЂ™s original intention as laid out in a prose introduction: вЂњItвЂ™s my belief that Dahmer didnвЂ™t have to wind up a monster, that all those people didnвЂ™t have to die horribly, if only the adults in his life hadnвЂ™t been so inexplicably, unforgivably, incomprehensibly clueless and/or indifferent,вЂќ Backderf writes. Here was the concept, but even better: a real story all laid out.вЂќ So when I came across My Friend Dahmer I thought it was a blessing. I was also, just separately, looking at graphic novels whenever I could.

Dahmer 2002 nominations serial#

вЂњI initially thought I was going to create a fictional story using composite details, a kind of road map towards becoming a serial killer. вЂњThe idea of a portrait of a serial killer as a young boy was interesting to me,вЂќ Meyers says. The film is adapted from the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, from 2012, by the cartoonist John Backderf, aka Derf, who had been friends with Dahmer at high school in the 1970s. Marc MeyersвЂ™s My Friend Dahmer is a sobering riposte to these earlier, often sensationalised representations. He has subsequently inspired books, plays, documentaries, a novel, by Joyce Carol Oates, and two rather glamorous biopics: The Secret Life, from 1993, and Dahmer, starring Jeremy Renner, from 2002.Дahmer didnвЂ™t have to wind up a monster, if only the adults in his life hadnвЂ™t been so inexplicably, unforgivably, incomprehensibly clueless and/or indifferent He raped, murdered and dismembered 17 boys and men, sometimes preserving their body parts as mementoes, sometimes dabbling in cannibalism. вЂњItвЂ™s hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what IвЂ™ve done,вЂќ he said, вЂњbut I know that I did it.вЂќДЄ serial killer and sex offender, Dahmer became known in the tabloids as the Milwaukee Cannibal. By the time the authorities caught up with Jeffrey Dahmer, in 1991, even the perpetrator was astonished by his crimes.