"If you don’t think about it, you won’t be a weapon, if you don’t be mad, you won’t survive." This is the most intuitive first impression of "Burst Drummer". The former has obvious inspirational elements, while the latter represents a part of the film noir. Musical inspirational films, that film must be much more boring. Fortunately, the teachers and apprentices in the film are not the kind of normal craftsmen. They are paranoid careerists and artistic lunatics who live and die to achieve their goals. The dark and gloomy state of enchantment on the careerist is as fascinating as the jazz in the movie with the proper film skills.
Regardless of anti-social personality or masochism, the relationship between teacher and student is distorted in the eyes of normal people, but in my eyes, the relationship between Fletcher and Andrew is actually not that "teacher and student". After Fletcher incited Andrew, the two people's potential psychological heights for artistic pursuits have approached, so many times I would rather treat them as opponents with wishful thinking. This pair of sharp-edged masters should exist in the director's creative philosophy. A kind of recognition, it’s just over. It can only be said that people gather in the same way. They all have extremely close artistic ambitions, and the paranoia of being willing to break their bones in order to achieve their goals, so when the teacher's ethics accused , Andrew would seem so hesitant, but the old-fashioned movies may choose to forgive each other, and then use the universal mild degradation of the film’s "toxicity", and finally stew it into a pot of cheap chicken soup, and "Burst Drummer" is an inspiring choice. A more violent mutual abuse, a more beautiful and flawless artistic sublimation was brewed in the fermented poison.
It is nonsense to say that Fletcher is a good teacher. His paranoid and extreme education method in school can easily make people understand him as the ultimate teacher who is dedicated to jade. He in the movie is like the pervert in "Full Metal Shell" The instructor has fallen into the dark side in the pursuit of the ultimate art, and teaches others in a way of torturous and heart-to-heart. What can be discussed before the middle part may be the question of whether his education method is appropriate, so the latter part of Frye Cheer's long conversation with Andrew after leaving school made people habitually let go of their guards and prepare to meet a mainstream-approved inspirational mentor. When the movie began to show a downward trend, Fletcher hit back, an inspiring choice. After revenge, this character, which is inherently flat and dangerous, is once again filled with black and three-dimensional. He is not only the Yanshi we see, he is also a gloomy enchanter, a paranoid genius artist, who has nothing to do with good and evil, but only with art. related.
Andrew also reached a state of enchantment under Fletcher's extreme enlightenment and forced out his greatest potential. On this road, he also went further and further in the direction of a bastard like Fletcher. The performance at the family dinner table is just a kind of pretentiousness of the new artistic artist. Later, in order to practice drumming and break up with his girlfriend, he has been completely enchanted, and it is precisely in such extreme requirements that Andrew's artistic potential can be thoroughly stimulated. , His artistic ambitions and uncompromising enthusiasm similar to Fletcher finally broke out under Fletcher’s instigation. Andrew sacrificed his soul, filling the drummer’s blood with his drums, in exchange for the ultimate art. Pursue. At the beginning of the film, the relationship between Andrew and Fletcher still remained at the level of disparity between teachers and students, and Andrew, who was gradually enchanted after enlightenment, was no less enthusiastic about art than Fletcher, and the two were emotionally see-saw. It became more intense, and in the end it formed a resonance, bursting out a huge musical magic.
There are many people in the world who pursue the ultimate art, but only those few who have endured extreme tempering and self-sacrifice can finally enter the ultimate palace. These people have sacrificed their lives to the god of art in tentative breakthroughs. Soul, this appalling sacrifice cannot be defined by inspiration, this is the sacrifice of the ascetic monk, it is destiny. Such a path of enchanting breakthrough is unbearable for ordinary people, and even unable to digest it. I agree with some of Fletcher’s ideas. Too much gentleness has created too many mediocre people, so most ordinary people like you and me, only To be a spectator on the sidelines, marvel at the difficulty of the way and the terrifying sacrifice.
Of course, it is only a movie after all, a story of making jade into a tool, and soaring into the magic. All its "bursts" and "burns" are the result of the joint efforts of different story content and appropriate film techniques. The rhythm of jazz is complex, changing and the tone is endless. The movie itself is very dramatic, and the editing of the film is accompanied by this change and complex rhythm, ups and downs, and the music itself has become one. This resonance of the synchronized ups and downs of the image and the music gives the film a slight MV temperament, which is pleasing to the eye. In addition, a large number of close-ups in the movie amplify the emotional content of people, making a large part of the movie need to be supported by character performances. Fortunately, the performances of the two protagonists are both Oscar-level, and a few exciting battles are so exciting that people can breathe. The plot itself, like this close-up, eliminates or blurs out a lot of content that should have appeared outside the main branch, and goes straight to the music. It is very efficient. There is basically nothing to fault with the subject matter.
Many live performances of the film deliberately obscured the presence of the audience, and seldom gave the audience applause, and hardly saw too much sweetness recognized by the public. This was handled ingeniously, for the fanatical realm of such two masters. In other words, their artistic path was not intended to cater to the mainstream, so these recognition from the mainstream public is not necessary for them. For the director, these secular mainstream recognition may misunderstand the tone of the film, which should not be the story of a successful person.
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