![]() Dahmer’s miswired brain circuitry makes him alone to begin with, and on top of that he’s doing what he can to shut out the everyday domestic horror of his parents’ disintegrating marriage and his mother’s mental illness - potently externalized in Jennifer Klide’s production design for the Dahmer home. Without spelling it out, Meyers and his collaborators tap into the particular historical vein that found teens caught between the afterglow (or fallout) of the countercultural movement and the arrival of Reagan’s America.Īt home and at school, teens of the era were, to a significant degree, on their own, a reality that’s dramatized to haunting effect. ![]() Its clear-eyed view of the period is an unnerving alternative to the warm nostalgia that characterizes many movie depictions of the late ‘ 70s. The film is set in 1977-78, Dahmer’s senior year in high school. ![]() FilmRise Secures $50 Million in New Financing
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