Tribeca 2017: My Friend Dahmer
And here's Jason Adams reporting again from the Tribeca Film Festival.
"Even more, they were boys, with their cars, summer jobs... oh my god... are you one of them?"
Sufjan Stevens sings that to the victims of John Wayne Gacy Jr. in his song titled after that serial killer, an attempt at finding some sort of empathy or a modicum of understanding buried beneath the front porch of a gay man's home turned graveyard. And now, taking a similar path through darkness towards more darkness, comes My Friend Dahmer, an adaptation of Derf Backderf's graphic novel about the writer's experiences going to high school with Jeffrey Dahmer...