Kill Your Darlings (2013) on Netflix
R20131h 44mBiographyDramaRomance
Allen Ginsberg arrives at Columbia University in 1944 and meets Lucien Carr, an unruly student with anti-establishment beliefs. Through Carr he meets William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac.
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Allen Ginsberg arrives at Columbia University in 1944 as an inexperienced freshman and finds the school's orthodox attitudes stifling. He is drawn to Lucien Carr, an unruly student with anti-establishment beliefs who stays enrolled only because David Kammerer writes his term papers. Kammerer is in love with Carr and asks for sex in return for making sure Carr is not expelled. Through Carr, Ginsberg meets William Burroughs, who is absorbed in drug experimentation, and Jack Kerouac, a sailor who was expelled from Columbia and lives with Edie Parker. The four start a literary movement they call The New Vision, a rebellion against laws, institutions and their professor Steeves. Ginsberg takes up their drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, and his romantic feelings settle on Carr.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Caleb Carr described the real David Kammerer as a sexual predator 14 years older than Lucien Carr, who first met Lucien when he was pubescent and repeatedly took advantage of his naivete and need for a strong male influence after his father abandoned him.
- According to Jack Kerouac's biographer Dennis McNally, Lucien Carr always insisted that he never had sex with David Kammerer, and William Burroughs, Kammerer's childhood friend in St. Louis, believed him.
