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Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos.
**Hello friends, good vibes to all.
The day has come where I finally sit down to write about this media boom that is shaking everyone and that is the new topic of conversation. I am usually one of those who like to watch documentaries about serial killers, not because I enjoy them but because in many of them you can get to understand the how and why of the actions of these monsters that are born every so often in the world. But in this opportunity there is a difference and that is that this work is not a documentary but a miniseries, one that exposes and details the way of being and behavior of this man but above all the suffering of the victims which will eventually open old wounds in their families.
So what's the point of it all, why put all the people involved through that hell again? - The answer is simple, because it sells. When there is a traffic accident and big queues and traffic jams are formed, I assure you that 80 or 90% of those times it is because people slow down or slow down to see what they can observe, they are always looking for blood, an injured person or even worse, a corpse. The human being by nature is curious and when you add to that curiosity the morbid factor, the results are known and this applies to all of us. The success of Dhamer, apart from being a very well made and excellently acted miniseries, is due to the above mentioned and there can be no doubt about it. But well, let's talk a little about what was or is the new Netflix hit.
Jeffrey Dhamer is played by Evan Peters, an actor who is more than used to perform this kind of roles and interpretations, in fact for one he did some time ago in American Horror Story he had to go through a therapy process. He has already said that he always had a great team and very capable people behind this recording, so I don't think there will be important sequels. The thing is that this miniseries delves into the life of Dhamer, from his childhood, youth and adulthood emphasizing his relationships with his parents, how life was at home, his tastes and hobbies very particular and strange and in turn in the search for the origin that ended up triggering all the madness he did in life.
This nefarious story is told with several jumps in time so that the viewer has a clearer context of all the situations, at times we are in the sixties, seventies, eighties and in the year of his capture 1991. I found this interesting because there are several stages of Dhamer's personality that we know, that despite being the same monster as always, at times it seemed as if he wanted to control the urge to kill and that happened when he was more stable in his jobs and even in his social life. Clearly there is an important psychological issue behind that behavior that is given by all the traumas he lived as a child and this miniseries touches them very superficially but enough to understand everything.
I have to say that this miniseries is one of the few that has made me feel really uncomfortable watching it, there are many scenes where the music, the shots, the way it was filmed, the colors and photography come together to create a very heavy and dense atmosphere that really makes you squirm in front of the screen and the experience is very real and vivid. I would say that it could perfectly be classified as a horror story worthy of being seen in this month of October, it has all the necessary elements that are sought within that genre. The level of rawness is maximum and I think it is more accentuated by being a true story, empathizing with the families, with the neighbor who denounced it ad nauseam and even with the parents is a very easy job given the degree of evil, disconnection from reality and dissociation that it demanded in Dhamer.
But there is something that its director Ryan Murphy has said, that although it seems a little complicated to see this story is not entirely about Dhamer nor seeks to expose him as a celebrity or a God although there are several people who are doing it and at the time also did it, it is about the victims, about their suffering and a little about recognizing the pain of the families. A bit contradictory if to achieve that you have to relive all that but well, this is not the first production that is made of Dhamer and will not be the last because as I said they are contents that call for morbidity and will always give something to talk about and will be seen en masse.
Also within this plot there are three elements that for me are important that Murphy uses to, I understand, make a criticism of society, they are things that happened and are not fiction, the first is the police negligence that is always present in these cases, There are good and bad policemen but it seems that the system protects the bad ones and that is reflected here, the second one is racism and this goes hand in hand with the first one because part of the fact that the policemen did not do anything was due to an important racial issue within the police force and the third one is homophobia which is connected with the first two. That is, a black or foreign and homosexual person had no voice in society. Unfortunately that happened in the 90's, it is still happening in 2022 and will continue to happen in the future.
Evan Peters is an incredible actor and the level of disturbance he achieved with this character is maximum, the complexity that must exist when playing a character like this must be very demanding and he looked comfortable on screen, when he had to impart fear, terror, anguish, discomfort, being a normal person when in reality he was not, were aspects that he achieved without difficulty and that is worthy of recognition. To embody such a hated and nefarious character within the American society is no small feat and Evan Peters achieved it with a barbaric solvency. I should also mention Niecy Nash who plays Glenda Cleveland, Dhamer's neighbor. A vital role in this angle of the story, a tenacious, persevering, principled woman who suffered in her own flesh the evil of this murderer. A very well achieved character by Nash.
In short, a story that makes us ask ourselves my initial question: does evil come with us from the factory or can we create it as we grow up? - In this case I think it came in Jeffrey's DNA but there are other cases where things happen that trigger something in people's minds and from then on another personality is born. It is a question with a very ambiguous and complicated answer but watching Dhamer we can get to answer it a little better. There is a lot of pain, a lot of violence, a lot of guilt and the fact is that the evil was so great that even the parents came to bear it for the acts of their son. Sadness and impotence but above all bewilderment to see how dantesque his lifestyle was.
9/10 not because it is popular but because it is really well made and the casting chosen was paramount for that to happen. It consists of 10 chapters of 50 minutes to an hour approximately and you can find it on Netflix. I leave the trailer here.
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Bueno mi gente por hoy es todo, espero que les haya gustado. ¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
***Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it. ¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!
