![]() And the director does some flitting of his own, through time with flashbacks, through space with abrupt switches in perspective, and through an eyebrow-notcher of a sequence that conflates three significant penetrations: Burroughs shooting heroin, Ginsberg's first sexual encounter, and the stabbing that will put a period on one fraught situation while creating another one entirely. When its heroes go on drug-fueled binges, so does his camera - at one point freezing other patrons at a jazz club in place so the amphetamine-buzzed poets can flit around them. How Carr deals with that situation gives the story its spine and also a startling climax.įirst-time director John Krokidas doesn't make Kill Your Darlings terribly linear. Hall), a former lover and professor who's long been writing Carr's papers for him - and who has recently been reduced to following him around like a puppy. They want to supplant Yeats' "Vision" with a "New Vision," but because they're college kids, their literary ambitions often take a back seat to drugs, drinking and pranks, including an elaborately planned but startlingly mild escapade at the Columbia library that gets them in all kinds of trouble.īigger trouble, though, is following Carr in the person of an obsessive admirer (Michael C. Hall), his former lover and professor, won't let go. Kill your darlings is a common piece of advice given by experienced writers. He's soon hanging out with Carr in the dorm, talking poetry and fantasizing about a closer relationship.Ĭarr's formidable charisma becomes something of a problem when David (Michael C. Truth be told, young Ginsberg is kind of smitten both by the handsome Lucien Carr and by his literary passion. It's Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and the passage that student reads outrages the librarian enough to get him hauled away by guards, with Ginsberg - as played by Radcliffe with not a hint of Harry Potter about him - grinning broadly. It's 1943, time for student orientation at Columbia University, and incoming freshman Allen Ginsberg is on a quiet, dignified tour of the campus library when a student with the face of a choirboy leaps on a table with a book. Kill Your Darlings may fare better, partly because it stars Daniel Radcliffe, and partly because the story centers as much on murder as on poetry. In this absorbing historical drama, three ambitious writers befriend each other at college and get involved in a murder. But films about them, like Naked Lunch and On the Road, have never really clicked with audiences. Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac led wild - and influential - lives. KILL YOUR DARLINGS is the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Kerouac (Jack Huston) and Burroughs. There are two main reasons to kill your darlings: your audience doesn’t like them, or there’s something wrong with the style. ![]() Hollywood's been trying to get a handle on the Beat Poets for years. With: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Rated R for sexual content, language, drug use and brief violence. ![]()
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