Kill Your Darlings Page #3

Synopsis: In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever.
Director(s): John Krokidas
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  5 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
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Year:
2013
104 min
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Let's make the prisoners

come out and play.

Let's come up with

new words, new rhythms.

We need a name.

How did they come up with "Dada"?

Tristan Tzara jabbed a

knife into a dictionary.

Sh*t. So that's been done.

A literary revolution

without writing a word.

- Neat trick, Lu.

- Well, I'm listening.

What about Yeats?

The New Vision.

Harlem soldiers on the ground

Ginsy.

You're hired.

On parade

Keep it moving, gentlemen.

Stay in line.

F***ing perverts.

"In the dawn, armed

with a burning patience

"we shall enter the splendid city. "

- Sh*t.

- It's Rimbaud.

It's overwritten, I know. He's allowed.

No. My mother.

This is bad. This is very bad.

What is?

She's gonna be furious.

- Don't go then.

- You don't understand. I have to.

- Why?

- It's complicated.

Perfect.

I love complicated.

- Dad?

- Sign here. Greystone will alert you...

What's going on?

Your mother needs her rest.

Ma.

You can't do this.

Where were you?

I was outwith a friend.

- I called you.

- I know.

- It's time to go, Mrs Ginsberg.

- No, you're not leaving.

- He's already signed the papers.

- Dad, don't.

- It's for the best, son.

- Your best.

You know... it's for her best.

It's not for my best. It's

for her best. Look at her.

- No.

- Listen to her.

- He's not gonna...

- I know it's not. Don't...

Mom. Mom. Mom. Get off.

This is your fault.

Complicated enough?

At least you have her.

My father left me when I was four.

I've been thinking

about what Yeats said.

To be reborn, you have to die first.

What do you suggest?

I spent my entire life

making other people happy.

It's time I find happiness

the only way I see possible.

Oh, please.

Die already.

Where's the verve? The brio?

If it be that I am indulging

my self-consciousness

in justifying myself or if it be...

- That's a run-on.

- Don't edit me.

- The New Vision declares...

- "Proclaims. " It's better.

Proclaims the death of morality.

The expression of self.

The true, uninhibited,

uncensored expression of the self.

Words, boys. Empty words.

- Well, what do you suggest?

- The derangement of the senses.

What do you hate from

the pit of your gut?

- Institutions. Paterson, New Jersey.

- My father.

- Bingo.

And the Shakespeare...

All right.

Extraordinary men

propel society forward.

It is our duty to break the law.

- Really?

- It's how we make the world wider.

- You are an extraordinary man.

- Well, thank you.

Return of the Native.

Leviathan.

Tear 'em up, boys. Destroy

the old and build the new.

Chaucer. Gibbon.

Watch this.

Go.

What the hell is this?

Time slows down

as you drift deeper and

deeper into your cave.

We are exploring the

avenues of Allen's mind.

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