IMDB: 6.5
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (as Allen Ginsberg), Dane DeHaan (as Lucien Carr), Michael C. Hall (as David Kammerer), Ben Foster (as William S. Burroughs) and Jack Huston (as Jack Kerouac)
It's a biographical movie of Allen Ginsberg's life when he first gets into the University of Columbia. He first starts as an inexperienced but talented freshman and soon meets Lucien Carr who is impressive, handsome, revolutionary, rowdy. Ginsberg gets impressed by Carr's thoughts about a revolution in literature. Soon, Ginsberg gets to meet Carr's friend (ex-lover and stalker), a literature professor David Kammerer. He finds out that Carr only uses his thoughts and makes him write all of his term papers to stay in Columbia. In return, Kammerer wants his love but Carr doesn't give that to him because of some uncertain reasons related to their past (it's not completely mentioned in the movie) Ginsberg doesn't seem to mind it but later he gets annoyed by Kammerer following Carr. The reason why is that he falls in love with Carr. They, (Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs) write poems that might be considered as "immoral" and that doesn't fit into classical literature rules. After some time, Lucien Carr realises Allen Ginsberg's in love for him and makes him write his term papers instead. He runs off and tries to join merchant marine with Jack Kerouac without saying goodbye to Allen but he finds out David's still following him like he always did since he was a child. He stabs (and perhaps drowns) him and goes to jail. Lucien asks Allen to write his deposition for him but after digging up the whole story, Allen rejects to do it and writes a fictional but perhaps also a little bit truthful story called "the night in question"
personal thoughts about the movie: The movie is a bit strange because of the unknown facts like Lucien's love life, Lucien's reason of killing David, things that have happened in the past between David and Lucien etc. but still, I liked the movie because of the revolutionary thoughts and characters, especially Lucien. Dane DeHaan was a perfect fit for his character and so was Daniel Radcliffe. I personally love both of them. I made a small research about Lucien Carr because after I watched the movie, I was a bit curious about the reason why he killed David and stuff but unfortunately I couldn't find much about him. In an interview with Dane DeHaan, he said that since there wasn't much record about Lucien Carr, he had to read Allen Ginsberg's diary to find out more about him. That's another reason why I liked the movie. It told a lot about an unclear character that a lot of us wouldn't know if we didn't watch the movie. I was literally in love with Lucien Carr after this movie. It's strange to not know if he was gay or not because he had romantic relationships with a bunch of guys but we still don't know if he was just using them or really loved them. The movie makes you think, and for me, that's something I look for in a good movie.
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