Kill Your Darlings

—“Kill Your Darlings” (DVD) was worth a viewing.  It’s a look at a brief time in 1944 when Alan Ginsberg was at Columbia University and crossed paths with William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr. I didn’t know the story, so it was interesting on that level, but much of the interest came from the fact that I was watching it with the benefit of knowing what Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac would become and how the 1950’s Beat Generation changed things—pulling away from conformity and ushering in a less structured time, embracing immediacy and individual freedom while being politically active—only to fade in the 60s when the next counter-culture arose, bringing some of the Beat tenets with them.  It’s an interesting film, although the closeted relationships are a little creepy and disturbing when seen through today's more tolerant eyes

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[2013. 104 min. Directed by John Krokidas. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, and Michael C. Hall.]
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