Kill
Your Darlings is the new Daniel Radcliffe’s work.
This
film is about the three main characters of the worldwide known Beat Generation:
Allen Ginsberg (played by Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac and William S.
Burroughs, joined by College and murderer.
The
film shows the darkest side of this –already- dark generation: sex, drugs,
violence and poetry.
The
critics on this movie are both positive and negative, depending on which site
or magazine they’re found.
“Despite
its
general intelligence and worthy performances, Kill Your Darlings makes it
difficult to see how the Beats ever caught on.”
San Francisco Chronicle,
http://www.metacritic.com/publication/san-francisco-chronicle?filter=movies
http://www.metacritic.com/publication/san-francisco-chronicle?filter=movies
“Kill
Your Darlings presents a minor prelude to
a major literary movement.”
New
York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/movies/kill-your-darlings-stars-daniel-radcliffe.html?_r=0
“A vibrant,
insightful film about writers and writing, featuring Daniel Radcliffe’s best
post-Potter performance.”
Los
Angeles Times
http://www.thewrap.com/kill-darlings-reviews-daniel-radcliffe-plays-gay-great/
However, the audience reviews
aren’t generally good.
“Overall
the movie seems to wander, like the worst excesses of free verse, needing a
little structure to rein it in.”
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kill_your_darlings_2013/
“Daniel
Radcliffe is a strange choice.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/kill-your-darlings-film-review-daniel-radcliffe-is-a-strange-choice-8986637.html
“Kill
Your Darlings.
Acting charisma from the leads aside, it
could do with some subtlety. Tries to do too much in every way.”
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kill_your_darlings_2013
“There's
far too little of the poetic dialogue,
and entirely too much intrusive jazz
music to denote the time period. The editing is also a bore.”
http://blogcritics.org/movie-review-kill-your-darlings-2/
OPINION
In my
opinion, if you watch the film without knowing anything about the Beat
Generation, it might be beautiful since the dialogues are very poetic and the
scenes are full of emotions.
However,
if you watch it knowing anything about the Beat Generation, you’ll notice that,
for example, the personality of the characters doesn’t fit with the real
personality of these writers (especially Jack Kerouac’s), or that they changed
the way the murderer occurred.
So,
as a conclusion, it’s a nice film to watch, but quite far from reality.