Director Peter Care's adaptation of Chris Fuhrman's
cult novel The
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys tries to address this essential «Blake - ian» paradox (extolling the virtues of experience in the act of static creation) by splitting its protagonists between the primogenitor (Kieran Culkin as Tim) and the chronicler (a fantastic Emile Hirsch as Francis), with Jena Malone's haunted Margie left a metaphor for the balance between innocence and experience (explored by Blake in his
most well - known works («Songs of Innocence,» «Songs of Experience»)-RRB-.