Jeffrey is the target of bullies at school, and his crush on the bearded jogger (Vincent Kartheiser) he sees each morning from the school bus is a feeling he doesn’t know what to do with. Lynch, as surely as Jeremy Renner 15 years ago in “Dahmer” (the movie that put him on the map), has fearlessly thought and felt his way into this role. Lynch, in aviator frames, with a shaggy coif, looks remarkably the way Dahmer did in 1978, and he acts with a spooked gravity - his face frozen, as if he were literally afraid to smile - that’s highly suggestive of unformed inner demons. The casting of Disney star Ross Lynch as Dahmer sounds like a stunt, but it works for several reasons. After “Bates Motel” and “Hannibal,” mainstream audiences are edgier now, and they’re more than ready for a movie that looks into the dark heart of the adolescent abyss. “My Friend Dahmer” is disturbing, compelling, and original, and with the right handling it could prove a specialty-market sensation. As you watch the movie, its central idea - that Jeffrey Dahmer wasn’t just born, he was made that he started off as an actual human being - has a shocking validity that never undercuts the extremity of his crimes.
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