andre picar

An easy 5/5. In dark academia aesthetics, there are only so few movies that truly capture such a theme. I believe Kill Your Darlings has excelled exceptionally so. The soundtrack is stellar and is always on cue with the atmosphere, and the screenplay is poetic and reminiscent of more otherworldly productions like La La Land’s whimsicality and what not. It is poetic in its writing and story telling, and artistic in the stretching of human lives into a compelling story. The movie follows real life scenario of Allen Ginsberg, a poet studying at Columbia University where he meets Lucien Carr. The story drives itself with the running message of exploration and being different. It is protestant and rebellious in its themes and different story-beats, but other than the discovery of new un-calculated art is where Allen discovers the feelings he harbors for Lucien— as he too unravels the mystery of his muse and his connection to David Kammerer. It is rich, it is lively, it is full of emotion. A great movie.