Oh my darling

Marianna 2022-11-21 19:13:37

To understand a movie, you need to understand the relevant background of the movie, the task, the social state, the director's expression, the content of the lens's accusation, and so on.

However, to feel with the senses only need to see and hear is enough.

I watched this movie without looking into the former, I came for the latter.

I thought the two fell in love and went to bed, but it wasn't.

The first half of the movie is beautiful, very beautiful, crazy and beautiful, and they practice themselves to the extreme.

I love one of the scenes. The time in the originally noisy tavern suddenly stopped. Lucian took Allen to walk through the various forms one by one. Finally, he took out a fruit knife, cut the palms of the two, and then Holding each other, the blood is connected, the smile on the lips is simply beautiful.

The camera cuts, but the two are doing a self-phantom drug experiment in David's room. Time stagnation is fake, but holding hands is real.

In fact, I don't understand a little. This action with strong sexual implication was finally interpreted as an unequal relationship, yearning and charity.


I want to talk about William, I really like this image in the movie, no matter whether he is an addict who is addicted to fantasy and marijuana, or a middle-aged uncle who does nothing, his calm face is paralyzed, and his speech is full of abstinence. Even if he is childish and impulsive, he is still a crazy practitioner.

They are brilliant and dogmatic, they are madmen on the run, they are the beat generation, living out the dreams of brutal youth and youthful impulses.

In fact, homosexuality is just a point of view, and does not touch the most essential things in the film, and it is not as clear as I expected, or a happy or sad ending.

They are still crawling forward in reality, they have not been able to rely on their own hands to rescue themselves, they have bizarre thoughts, flowing nibs, and then they are still imprisoned by reality, the reality of human nature is cruel, everything seems crazy and romantic, but it is Start to defend yourself.

The film has an ending that doesn't feel like an ending.

But everything ends and everything begins.



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Extended Reading

Kill Your Darlings quotes

  • Lucien Carr: [on Kerouac's writings] It's brilliant, no?

    Allen Ginsberg: It's missing some periods and commas.

    Lucien Carr: It's better than anything you've ever written.

    Allen Ginsberg: I use periods and commas.

  • Allen Ginsberg: [reading his poem] Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul, in your isolation but you fortunate in your ignorance. You who have suffered find where love hides, give, share, lose, lest we die unbloomed.

    Jack Kerouac: Allen, that was beautiful, kid.

    Lucien Carr: You wrote that?

    Allen Ginsberg: You asked me to.