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| “ | I am a pervert. I'm an exhibitionist. I'm a masturbator. And a killer... like you. | „ |
| ~ Dahmer to his intended victim Rodney. |
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer is the titular main protagonist of the 2002 film Dahmer, based on the real serial killer, rapist, cannibal, and necrophiliac who murdered 17 young men and boys.
He was portrayed by Jeremy Renner, who also portrayed Brian Gamble in S.W.A.T.
Personality[]
Growing up, Dahmer was a socially awkward outcast who, due to his parents' deteriorating marriage, had a volatile temperament (he is shown angrily smacking trees with a baseball bat after his father leaves) and a severe case of separation anxiety, with the latter being best exemplified by Dahmer trying to physically force both Lance Bell and Rodney to stay with him after the two of them decided to leave Dahmer. Dahmer also suffers from self-loathing, at different points giving demeaning speeches in which he projects what are clearly all of his own issues onto Lance and Rodney.
After committing his first murder, Dahmer was horrified and disgusted, nearly vomiting and being barely able to look while dismembering the body, and later breaking down crying and drunkenly calling his father, Lionel. In the present, however, Dahmer's empathy has dulled to the point that he displays absolutely no reservations over raping and murdering other men, looking largely impassive while torturing and mutilating one named Khamtay.
Despite this, Dahmer still displays the occasional flicker of humanity; he dropped everything and obliged when his grandmother called to ask a favor of him, and appeared to be fond of his pet fish, blowing off Rodney's suggestion that they make the Bettas (Siamese fighting fish) fight each other for their amusement while explaining that he keeps the Bettas separate and in their own enclosures because he does not want them to fight or kill each other or any of the other fish in the aquarium. Additionally, while strangling Rodney at the end of the film, Dahmer appears to just give up partway through, and does nothing but silently stand there, looking dazed, as Rodney gets up, punches him, and leaves, with it being implied that, despite Dahmer's claims to the contrary, his and Rodney's time together did have an effect on him, causing him to seemingly spare Rodney.
Biography[]
Jeffrey had an unhappy childhood: his parents had frequent, violent arguments in front of their children; he was socially inept and had no friends; and he was ashamed of his homosexuality. As a teenager, he began having fantasies about killing attractive men and having sex with their corpses.
These fantasies became reality when Jeffrey was 18. He was living alone in his family's house, his parents having divorced and left him there. One day, he picked up a young male hitchhiker and brought him back to the house with him, and spent several hours drinking and smoking marijuana with him. When the hitchhiker tried to leave, Jeffrey attacked him and bludgeoned him to death with a dumbbell. He then dismembered the body and got rid of the remains. He was horrified and guilt-ridden by what he had done, and yet he found it sexually satisfying.
Years later, he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he works at a chocolate factory by day and rapes and murders attractive young men by night, occasionally mutilating and torturing them, like when he stabs a boy in the head with a drill and chokes him in and out of consciousness before having sex with and cutting open his body.
One night, Jeffrey meets Rodney, a handsome and innocent young African-American man. Jeffrey invites Rodney to his apartment, intent on killing him. As they talk, however, Rodney coaxes out what remains of Jeffrey's humanity by revealing that he has genuine feelings for him. Nevertheless, Jeffrey's violent urges get the better of him, and he tries to choke Rodney to death. Rodney overpowers him, however, and runs out of the apartment, with it being implied that he will bring the police to arrest Jeffrey.
After his arrest, Jeffrey is murdered by Christopher Scarver in prison.
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Trivia[]
- Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the three serial killers to have a film based on their crimes released in the same year (2002). The other two are Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy.
- While the real life Jeffrey Dahmer was a cannibal, this aspect of his crimes is omitted from the film, not being shown or even mentioned, with the same being true of Dahmer's goal of creating a "zombie" sex slave by doing things like pouring acid into his victims' brains. The amount of victims is also changed from seventeen to fifteen, though this may have only been the number of murders that Dahmer was convicted of, rather than the amount that he actually committed.
- As Jeremy Renner's version of Jeffrey Dahmer is semi-fictionalized, the victims in this portrayal were either renamed or condensed into one character, possibly to avoid legal action from the families of Dahmer's real-life victims and protect their identities.
- One example is the escapee who led to Dahmer's capture, Tracy Edwards, here renamed Rodney.
External Links[]
- Jeffrey Dahmer on the Pure Evil Wiki.