I watched this film on a whim and it was actually very enjoyable! Despite not being greatly biographical - obviously its not a documentary it's an action film meant to entertain, it did include certain biographical elements - that all the women in Poe's life had died and this had effected him, his drinking, and what has been implied of his general character - sass and confrontational with people he worked for. What slightly annoyed me is that after Poe's wife died he reunited with an old love of his, this could have been the love interest in the film instead of a totally fictional thing.
I think the film really captured the feeling of a lot of Poe's work, and was a gripping mystery which gives a nod back to Poe basically being the father of detective stories. A lot of film adaptations of Poe's work were done many years ago and are either just funny - because they're basically B-Movie horrors, or completely changed from the source material. Though this is not an adaptation of his work there are snippets of his stories quite accurately presented.
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