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Kill Your Darlings

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

I liked this disturbing “based on a true story” look at the origin of The Beats at Columbia University in 1943-44. Allen Ginsburg (Daniel Radcliffe) leaves Patterson, NJ, his poet father and very disturbed mother, and goes to college where he encounters William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Lucian Carr and David Kamerrer. The movie follows their sexual, drug, and literary rebellions of that year and culminates (not a spoiler) in Kamerrer’s murder. I rather liked Daniel Radcliffe as the young Ginsburg, although others found him unconvincing

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