“Ogre Dharma” After Viewing

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Ogre Dharma is a new (pseudo)documentary coming out in 2022 from Netflix. Netflix is ​​very good at making these kinds of series, but the quality has not been very high in the past, but this one is well shot.

Following the life of Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, America’s notorious necrophilic and cannibal serial killer, the 10-episode series follows Dahmer as he killed and dismembered 17 men from 1978 to 1991, while exploring further It revealed the reasons behind it and revealed the ugliness of various societies at that time—such a bad incident must not be caused by a single individual , but a problem with the entire system.

Parents’ quarrels and divorce, lack of education, and discrimination against homosexuality all brought Dahmer to the edge of psychological distortion. The feeling of being abandoned gradually made him develop a paranoid personality that controls others . He mainly chooses Asians or blacks to start, because these people will not be taken seriously by the police, and a series of subsequent events have also verified this. Success after success made him more and more daring, and even in a situation where the police had already intervened, he was able to regain his “prey” from the police…

Needless to say, the horror of the film is different from Hannibal in “The Silence of the Lambs”. The latter’s calmness and high IQ make people shudder, but the former feels more like a fluke to me-if the police can be more responsible, there won’t be so many victims.

Knowing that there are people like Dahmer, but also knowing that the police are doing nothing to fight it, creates a deep sense of powerlessness , which is an important part of being scary.

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