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The thesis of the film, drawn largely from Court TV's coverage of Dahmer's trial and from ''A Father's Story,'' the sorrowful 1994 memoir by his father, Lionel, is that Jeffrey was a lonely, isolated young man dangerously cut off from his own bottled-up fury.

Almost any episode of the HBO series ''Six Feet Under'' offers a more intimate view of death. But there are no actual scenes of dismemberment and cannibalism. We are shown a fake-looking severed head sealed in a plastic bag, a slightly bluish corpse lying on a bed, a blood-spattered kitchen floor (after the murder victim has been dismembered and his parts have been stuffed into a garbage bag) and a scene of Dahmer about to reach into the torso of a corpse. Considering Dahmer's crimes, the gore is minimal. The movie, which opens today in Manhattan and Los Angeles, is very discreet - perhaps too discreet - in its handling of the actual murders.

#Dahmer 2002 720p movie

As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character, there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy, clean-cut Dahmer (Jeremy Renner) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge. Two years later he was killed by a fellow inmate.

Dahmer, who pleaded insanity at his murder trial, was convicted on all counts in 1992 and sentenced to 1,070 years in prison. Is it possible to explain a phenomenon like Jeffrey Dahmer, the notorious serial killer who murdered 17 men and cannibalized parts of their bodies? Or are the social forces that shaped him the same pressures that thousands of other people have endured without being driven to kill?Дavid Jacobson's serious, well-acted docudrama ''Dahmer'' falls headlong into the trap of imagining that it can somehow rationalize the monstrous.