{"id":1927,"date":"2014-02-21T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2014-02-21T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T10:11:32","slug":"daniel-radcliffe-fails-to-shine-in-kill-your-darlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/21\/daniel-radcliffe-fails-to-shine-in-kill-your-darlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Radcliffe fails to shine in Kill Your Darlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1965\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/449px-Daniel_Radcliffe_2011_Straighten_Colors.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1965\" alt=\"Not Daniel Radcliffe's most successful silver screen appearance photo- joella marano\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/449px-Daniel_Radcliffe_2011_Straighten_Colors.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"599\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1965\" alt=\"Not Daniel Radcliffe's most successful silver screen appearance photo- joella marano\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/449px-Daniel_Radcliffe_2011_Straighten_Colors.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"599\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Not Daniel Radcliffe&#8217;s most successful silver screen appearance photo- joella marano<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSome 10 minutes into Kill Your Darlings, one of the protagonists jumps onto the table of a stuffy college library and starts shouting profoundly about his nether regions.<br \/>\nInstead of quietly ignoring such attention-seeking behaviour, we are apparently supposed to applaud his courageous\u00a0non-conformity.Kill Your Darlings \u2013 a look at Beat poet Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s college years, and the murder which haunted them \u2013 continues in this vein and fails most spectacularly because of the reverence it gives its main players.<br \/>\nAssuming its audience is aware and admiring of Ginsberg the poet, it never bothers to give his younger self \u2013 or his companions &#8211; any redeeming features.<br \/>\nGinsberg&#8217;s tragic home life should endear him to the audience but Daniel Radcliffe&#8217;s portrayal never moves away from Potter-esque naivety and he spends most of the film gaping in awe at Dane Dehaan&#8217;s Lucien Carr (the aforementioned table-jumper).<br \/>\nIt is hard to identify with someone of such ludicrously poor judgement. Radcliffe is overshadowed by rising star Dehaan, who does well to capture Carr&#8217;s charisma, but as the film trudges on the sight of his smirking face becomes more and more unbearable and the urge to slap it kicks in.<br \/>\nThe initial failure to establish any likeable qualities in the characters means that when the story takes a more tragic turn, the audience doesn\u2019t really care. Even the usually-excellent Elizabeth Olsen comes across as a bore, hands constantly on hips as she frowns at the antics of \u2018the lads\u2019.<br \/>\nSurprisingly for a film about Ginsberg, Carr and Jack Kerouac, Kill Your Darlings&#8217; main flaw is not its pretentiousness, which is to be expected. It&#8217;s just bloody boring. 2\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Some 10 minutes into Kill Your Darlings, one of the protagonists jumps onto the table of a stuffy college library and starts shouting profoundly about his nether regions. 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