a review of 我朋友是杀人狂

I liked My Friend Dahmer. No pun intended. Based on a comic by an actual friend / classmate of Jeffrey Dahmer, the film paints a fascinating portrait of the years in which Dahmer developed into a serial killer. I think it's an interesting approach to fully focus on the adolescent years of a famous serial killer, in stead of the violence that followed. Ross Lynch gave an excellent performance as the troubled outcast that Dahmer was. My Friend Dahmer loses some of its momentum in the second half, but overall I enjoyed the film, though it does feel a bit uncomfortable to develop a certain sympathy for a boy who later drilled holes in the skulls of his unconscious victims, and ate their organs. Read Dahmer's Wikipedia page and it will baffle you.