![]() Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac led wild and influential. He arrives as a very inexperienced freshman, but soon runs into Lucien Carr (Dane. Hollywoods been trying to get a handle on the Beat Poets for years. In 1944, poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) wins a place at Columbia University in New York City. A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. ![]() The scandal, and their time with Carr, shapes the Beat icons into what they’ll eventually become known for: Ginsberg a libertine poet, Burroughs a junkie experimentalist and, yes, Kerouac a brooding crank. Kill Your Darlings is Elizabeth Olsen's sixth film, which premiered at Sundance 2013. (Because this is based on a true story, and the film opens with Kammerer’s bloody body in the water, you’re not reading a spoiler.) Kammerer appears to be the brains and Carr the beauty that recites Carr’s transcendental philosophies.Īs Carr and Ginsberg grow closer, Kammerer becomes more and more unhinged, which leads Carr to stab Kammerer. In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Hall), Carr’s former teacher who harbors romantic, obsessive feelings for Carr. A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Docudrama digs into early Beat history with sex and drugs. Did college students - even brilliant future gods - really speak to each other in couplets and iambic pentameter all the time?Īlways on the fringe of the action is David Kammerer (a creepy, bearded Michael C. A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. The four of them decide to rally against the establishment and create a new literary movement, which means the movie has lot of random poetry recitation and off-putting close-ups that feel as if they’re there just for style. Through Carr, Ginsberg meets Burroughs, played by a convincing Ben Foster, and Kerouac, who is finally portrayed as a charming former football player (as opposed to a brooding crank) by Jack Huston. He also wakes up both Ginsberg’s literary voice and suppressed homosexuality. ![]() Carr’s the kind of guy who recites obscene Henry Miller passages on library tabletops, kisses strange girls at parties and always has a circle of admirers around. The budding poet is shy and awkward until he meets charismatic Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan). So to anyone not already familiar with some of the history and nuances of the literary movement, the nonlinear stories don’t always translate to the big screen.īut in writer/director John Krokidas’ “ Kill Your Darlings,” a tale based on a little-known Beat-tinged killing, we get a dark yet vibrant origin story.ĭaniel Radcliffe transforms beautifully into a young Ginsberg on his way to Columbia University in the 1940s. ![]()
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