It was stuff that I wrote at 17 and it’s perfectly fine for a 17-year-old. Well, yeah, a while ago! It’s stuff that I’m really…ugh. You wrote some poetry under a pen name, right? I have a sense of that because I love poetry. If you can imagine Allen in Paterson, New Jersey, wanting to write poetry and thinking, “Christ…this is terrible!” and then suddenly be in an environment where everyone is talking about poetry, and your intellect is valued, must have been incredibly exciting. But I think also, in terms of Allen, there’s a thing that goes along with his studiousness, which is a curiosity and an excitement about knowledge. I think a lot of it is just the age I am and the fact that I’ve been acting since I’ve been very young. No, I didn’t wish I could have gone to school more or anything like that. Is that an unrequited dream, going to school? You seem to be very adept at playing students, whether it’s Harry Potter, December Boys, or Kill Your Darlings. And Radcliffe displays heretofore-unforeseen levels of vulnerability and torment as the conflicted Ginsberg in what is without question the finest performance of his young career. Burroughs (Ben Foster), and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), all find themselves under investigation. Hall), the Beat Generation’s finest young voices-to-be, Ginsberg, William S. When Carr murders his creepy ex-lover, David Kammerer (Michael C. The film, directed by John Krokidas, is set in 1944 and follows Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe), then a freshman at Columbia University, who befriends-and eventually becomes infatuated with-the charismatic Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan).
The first to hit theaters-and best, in this writer’s opinion-is Kill Your Darlings. Radcliffe’s portrayal as Ginsberg solidifies the fact that he can extend beyond his work on “Harry Potter.” Radcliffe does not shy away from portraying Ginsberg as a man enamored by Carr.With Potter firmly in his rearview, the spry Brit has hit the ground running, appearing in three wildly disparate indie films that screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Kerouac’s girlfriend Edie Parker (Elizabeth Olsen, “Liberal Arts”) and Carr’s mother Marian (Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”) are overlooked characters who influenced Kerouac and Carr. Though Ginsberg is affected by his mother’s illness, her existence is used for convenience to give Ginsberg advice and to bring him closer to Carr than for giving additional insight into Ginsberg’s personality. What is lost in the film are the female characters and their impact on the main characters. Each member of the Beat scene faces his own personal demons that affect his work later in life, which Krokidas depicts.
The first scene depicts Carr standing in a body of water with a bloody Kammerer in his arms, followed by a screaming match between Ginsberg and Carr over a manuscript. Caar captivates Ginsberg and the audience instantaneously as he leaps onto the tables at Columbia’s library reciting lines from Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” and even as he gradually falls apart due to his relationship with Kammerer.ĭirector and co-writer John Krokidas unabashedly depicts the Beat Generation’s formation as a meeting of brilliant but dark minds. DeHaan portrays Carr as a student who resists the constraints of society in life and in writing, and who is haunted by the endless sexual advances of David Kammerer (Michael C.
Carr introduces Ginsberg to William Burroughs (Ben Foster, “Contraband”) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston, “Boardwalk Empire”), two of the Beat Generation’s central personalities.Īlthough the film follows the Beat Generation from Ginsberg’s perspective, the film clearly depicts Carr as the central person who brought the writers together. Carr takes the young Ginsberg, a freshman who had never drank or smoked, on numerous adventures around New York.
Once Ginsberg reaches the Big Apple, his life changes dramatically after meeting Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan, “In Treatment”), an engaging upperclassman.
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