"Kill Your Love" is a work that Daniel officially took over after the Potter series, so the film party will inevitably use Daniel as a gimmick in publicity, during the time when the film was released. The overwhelming publicity is the sensational title of "Daniel's subverting childhood performance" and "Potter's large-scale role in destroying childhood", so I was not interested in watching "Kill Your Love" during that time, so I went straight to now, for I finally saw Daniel when everyone, and myself, stopped seeing him as the unchanging dead kid.
To be honest, the long shot of Daniel sweeping the room with a broom and dancing to the music in the title sequence still confuses me a bit, or rather, plays. The OS in my heart is whether Daniel has performed too much about the flying ball game, so that as long as he picks up the broom, I feel that the next second he will get on the broom and fly out to catch the golden spy. Fortunately, the confusion was only for a moment. When Daniel spoke his lines in the next scene, he had already left Potter's state and became a simple literary teenager.
In fact, a legendary biographical film like "Kill Your Love" is really not easy to act. After watching it, everyone said that Daniel's performance was too strong, but Dane's Lucian's performance was quite natural. If I say this, maybe I'm going to complain about Daniel, but it's not that Daniel can't act, the main reason is that his role is too special. Allen Ginsburg, the most outstanding literary representative of the "Beat Generation" in the United States, and the most awarded poet in the 20th century in the United States, plus his father is also a famous poet, and he is also a man who still regards homosexuality as a poet in the world. A man who had already held hands with a man and walked through his whole life when he was a beast. In addition, the entire script of "Kill Your Love" is based on the real teenage past of the literary giant who stirred the twentieth century in the United States. Jack 'Crudia, William' Baster, one of them wrote "In the 20th century." On the Road, a Ginsburg who wrote Naked Lunch and Howl, and the literary muse who lived in the work of the three of them and eventually became editorial control of their work. God, Lucian' Carl. The past of these four people, just chewing on the names, is enough for the audience and readers to get excited for a while. As for Ginsburg, Buster and Crudia, they already have an inherent image in the eyes of the world, or they belong to the reader's fantasy image, so the three actors who portrayed them in the film are very hard, and they will play in the role. Previously, I or others had assumed the existing knowledge of these three literary giants. As for Dane, he was fortunate to play Lucian, who was relatively unfamiliar to the world, so he could follow the script and his own understanding to go wild. Rather than grasping the script and being influenced by his own knowledge at the same time, there is a reason why the performances of Daniel and the other two actors were suppressed by Dane, which is understandable. But having said that, this movie has failed a good story, a good cast, and the true teenage past of the literary giant who has been talked about by everyone for almost a hundred years.
In fact, judging from the structure of the script, it can be seen that the director has ambitions, including the scene where Lucian and Allen met for the first time in the library at the beginning, and the scene where the two people reunited in the dormitory at the beginning. Full of youthful and hormonal flavors. Lucian's first look at Allen in the library was full of seductive taste, but not obscene. It was a hormonal signal unique to teenagers; looking at Allen with a cigarette in the dormitory made it even more convincing. People can't hold it anymore, they just have to go up and down, eat and wipe. Daniel also took the trick beautifully, showing the unease, confusion and excitement of a young teenager when parrying such a stunner. Furthermore, in the eye contact with Lucian during oral sex at the back of the library, it perfectly interprets the real impulse and heartbeat, and fully expresses Allen's unspoken feelings towards Lucian. But many other people in this film have become failures. This is not the responsibility of the actors, but the responsibility of the director and screenwriter.
The title of the film is "Kill Your Love", the English title,
Actually speaking, this work can’t be said badly. The previous part depicts the wanton youth of Alan, Lucian, William and Jack very much. Although it may not be in line with the real masters, at least Not off the beaten track. The use of black music also has a sense of the times, creating a good mood; including the use of the map of New York in Allen's dormitory, I also have thoughts, full of beauty of structure and rhythm, but I don't know why these advantages But it's all lost in the second half of the film, so the structure and themes that had been pretty good fell apart. Coupled with the director's almost perfunctory handling of the part after the murder, I even wonder if the first and last two parts were written by the same director. As for the characters of the leading actors, they are superficial, and I will not vomit even if the characters are broken.
But the previous director's part of Lucian and William's exploration of Allen's brain circuit is really a masterpiece, and the final freeze frame has a surreal flavor. But the previous success does not obliterate the fact that the director destroyed a good theme and wronged a lot of good actors. In order to make this work well, I think the director has to learn from the "Beat Generation", first learn to kill the love in his heart, discard the parts that he once thought the most precious, and jump out of the past and the limitations of the established impression on him. . If you do this, you will probably kill the real self who is afraid to be seen by others, and you will be able to complete this work.
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