(總體7/10,evan真的好好看。。。(。)感情四星)

節奏慢但基本挺穩,jeff進監獄後幾集拍的比較沉悶單調,不過季終集讨論的話題——good vs evil,forgiveness vs vengeance,還挺有意思。

看了一半在半夜看了個采訪,evan說ryan Murphy搞這劇的number one rule就是不從jeff的pov講故事,而全部都是在觀察他。也力求體現了對受害者的尊重。

這劇前半以冷靜、中立、觀察性的視角拍jeff被抓前的人生,處理的還不錯。後半進行轉變,開始大約每一集以一個victim的視角來講故事(我不隻是指受害者,包括各種被Jeffrey摧殘了人生的人)。看了一篇文章,裡面評論了劇集這樣處理叙事的問題,感覺說的很有道理。

前面大意是:前五集已經奠定了基調,已經明确建立了犯罪者才是中心人物。後半開始focus on victim的故事,就顯的額,誠意不足(?)沒有足夠飽滿的立腳點來開始新的叙事,(所以我覺得有幾集拍的不太行)。而且,雖然劇集決定側重于這些話題:

- the police’s jaw-droppingly negligent assumptions that Dahmer couldn’t be a criminal;

- the way he targeted and killed gay men, particularly those of color, at the same time the AIDS crisis was unfolding; and

- how the race, sexual orientation, and/or economic status of the victims made them less of a priority to racist and homophobic law enforcement.

而盡力避免glorify the killer,但是:

“it handles those issues without significant depth. It’s as if the team behind Dahmer marked the socially relevant subjects raised by the serial killer’s behavior with a highlighter instead of actually building deeper narratives around them the way a superior true-crime series might.”

還有一點,就是關于劇集後半讨論的其中一個話題,我感覺,對于重點在這個犯罪者的true crime作品裡,某種程度上是無法避免對于這人的“娛樂化”和對受害者的剝削性質的。就像劇裡的鄰居,有個片段裡看到jeff的采訪上電視,說, “This is not some Halloween story, This is my life.” 可是我覺得他成為halloween story真的是一個必然的社會現象(?)

可是這劇也僅僅用了victim痛訴的一些片段(比如剛提到的鄰居的片段),來聲明這個問題,卻也并沒有深入探讨*到底為什麼*“people are so fascinated by the depraved behavior of a serial killer”

正如這段所說:“Murphy and his collaborators are obviously aware of how exploitative it can be when the stories of serial killers are sold to a murder-obsessed public and how hurtful it is when victims are diminished, but the show never figures out a way to avoid committing the same crime.

You don’t get credit for lamenting the existence of a circus when you happen to be the ringmaster.”

講Tony的第六集,作為劇集開始轉換叙事focus的第一集,的确算是個深刻、動人的開端,honour了受害者是一個有自己人生、生動的人,而并不隻是犯罪者殺人數據的那個+1,制作組的intension是可欽佩的。但是這一整集的最後,這個鮮活的人就還是literally been reduced to be a piece of meat。實在是挺諷刺,挺搞笑的。

+文章還說道因為evan已經是ryan Murphy的老常客,在美恐系列裡演過各種虛構的killer,所以,雖然他的表演一如既往的好,但看對于看慣美恐的人們,看evan演這個角色帶來的shock并不會很大。“It also gives Dahmer a tiny hint of American Horror Story vibes, which is the opposite of what you want for a series aiming to avoid turning Dahmer’s crimes into another ‘Halloween story’.” 也是很有道理

The Problem With Dahmer vulture.com