Regarding effort, many biographical films have been filmed, but compared with "Attack Drummer", it is not pure enough. The way of working hard in this video is different, but very profound.
That is: the effort is not worth it.
The director challenged the clichés of inspirational movies for many years with this reversal. The scent of chicken soup for the soul that can be seen everywhere in this kind of movie is the reward of the hard work. It completely exits from the story of the film; it is replaced by the evil spirit, which is the evil spirit of a drummer who has practiced his drums and reached the evil spirit. .
It is natural to work hard for something in return; if there is no return, what would someone continue to do?
"Attack Drummer" tries to give an answer, which is called: enchantment. In "Attack Drummer", hard work is not a virtue worth chanting. On the contrary, the filming is negative and full of magic.
The protagonist played by Miles Teller is a young drummer. He has been a bad guy all the way. He was treated unreasonably like a sadomasochist, he was selfishly abandoning his girlfriend, vainly scolded his peers, shamelessly grabbed the chief, and went crazy. Drumming even in a car accident... It's all in the eyes of the world. Then why practice and play drums? Not to make progress, but to eliminate paranoia.
What is paranoia? This is what the teacher played by JK Simmons in the film is doing to the protagonist.
I don't think "Attack Drummer" is a movie about one apprentice (even though JK Simmons nominated a supporting Oscar). On the contrary, this film only talks about the subjective feelings of the protagonist alone. Teacher Simmons, who is strict enough to throw a chair to the band, is just an image, a manifestation of the paranoid demon in the protagonist's heart. This wrinkle-based demon forced the protagonist to vomit blood. The protagonist can leave, but he is willing to do so, all because of the abuse of the demon, he himself granted the right. It was he who allowed the teacher to do what he wanted, and he believed that this kind of abuse could make him progress.
Some people will say: Artists should be paranoid, only madmen can take this path. In order to make oneself glorious, there should be sacrifices. maybe. However, will there be results if there is sacrifice? One of the most interesting aspects of "Attack Drummer" is that the story is anti-inspirational.
The protagonist has practiced this way, does he get any rewards? Thinking about the whole film, we will find that no passerby has praised his progress in drumming, and no award has been awarded to him. Apart from his own free testimony, young drummers have never proved that they sacrifice everything in exchange for artistic achievements.
This is a layer of dialectics. Just like Master Yan does not necessarily have high apprentices, and paranoias do not necessarily have to be great artists. Many directors are like Kurosawa Akira, but not every director can be a national treasure. If "Attack Drummer" finally made the protagonist a full house, affirming the positive effect of this paranoia, the film will rot and become a spiritual chicken soup, but it does not.
There is no guarantee of results, and no support from relatives and friends, so I have to insist on doing it... If this is not a demon, what is it?
The protagonist naturally knows that he has fallen into the magic way, otherwise he will not answer Dad's lawsuit proposal, and wants to give himself a little room for redemption. But in the end, he picked up the drumsticks that he had dropped and re-entered the stage. He knew that the teacher was framing him, but he had to face this bastard and perform in front of him, because only when the bastard nodded affirming himself, could he disappear without a trace. To exorcise the demons, the only way to exorcise the demons is to force them out of the demons.
Perhaps, after the performance of the movie is over, the protagonist will not be able to be on the stage for the rest of his life, but he still has to do it. Because of not doing it, he will suffer for the rest of his life. After the devil leaves, angels will not necessarily live in; but if the devil does not go, people cannot sleep peacefully.
The protagonist's so enchanted figure beating the drums is exactly what every paranoid patient has in common.
"Attack Drummer", the big winner of the Japanese Dance and Oscar Double Film Festival, does not praise hard work or art, but shows how hard work and art should be avoided, but it cleverly hides the theme in the refreshing editing. With dynamic rhythm. What the movie really wants to say is: artists and great men are actually patients, but it just happens that the process of self-help by patients is praised by the world as hard work.
At the end of the movie, the protagonist did not leave the stage in embarrassment, and chose to continue playing the drums frantically on the stage. Our audience is not surprised. We who watched why he struggled with the whole movie know that this choice is inevitable. So, at the moment he knocked the last bang, paranoiars all over the world had accompaniment.
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