When watching this movie, what naturally comes to mind is the template of Dupree's story. Whether it is better to live short and gorgeous but great than to live long and steady but mediocre is a topic that is always worth discussing. Your attitude towards life determines your lifestyle and your pursuits, and it also leads to a different life trend for everyone in the end. I remember a class teacher held a class meeting in junior high school. She said something meaningful to us who were young. She said that you are in the same class today, and in ten years, each of you will have a different life. Some people may go to sweep the streets. Some people may be little white-collar workers, while others may be bosses. . . After more than ten years have passed, when I look back and think about it, her prediction has already come true.
The last time I saw such a shocking movie was Natalie Portman's "Black Swan". In the final performance on stage, Nina achieved self-release and ultimate, and the ballet watered with blood reached artistic perfection. . So when I watched this movie, I was always worried about whether the male protagonist would beat the drums on the stage and his hands would rot and die. But fortunately, the story ended in an open-ended ending, and it was still developing in an optimistic and upward direction. The plot that made people feel suppressed to death was turned back like a spring at the last minute, allowing us to see where the hope lies.
Whiplash means whipping in English, which can be described as a pun. It not only shows the theme of the drumming film itself, but also implies the position of the characters in the play. Andrew is a freshman at a well-known music school. He loves to play drums and wants to be a legendary drummer like Charlie Parker. But since ancient times, there has never been a shortcut on the road to greatness. By chance, he was selected by Fletcher, the devil tutor of the school jazz band, to join the group, and then began a brutal training journey. You never know if the main drummer will be removed from the main drummer in the next second to sit on the bench and flip the score, because Fletcher has never been satisfied for a moment. He is like a cynical tyrant who is always in his menstrual period, and he hates everything. Human beings are almost perverted and mean at any time using the most extreme language to scold you and yell at you. As a member of his band, not only must he suffer the double blow of physical and mental exhaustion, but also cannot have any thoughts of resistance, otherwise it will mean being delisted. He can express an objective evaluation after listening to Andrew’s life experience when he was abandoned by his biological mother when he was a child, and then use this fact to attack him in front of all the team members in the next second. , Telling you is never enough.
We saw Andrew's tireless practice of blood-stained drumsticks in order to become the drummer who finally came to the stage. We saw him playing drums while his flesh was cracking and opening his mouth. The stickers were torn and the blood still couldn't stop flowing out while he stretched out and put them next to him. In the big ice bucket, the whole bucket was soaked with blood; I also saw that in order to get to the performance site, even if there was a car accident, he still rushed to the game scene like a head bleeding, but in the end he could not withstand the serious injury on the stage. Lost the drumstick and made a fool of himself.
Dupree mentioned at the beginning of the article often suspected that he had nothing but the cello. Just as Andrew gave up his "ordinary" girlfriend, he believed that their relationship would take up his drumming time and energy, and he rushed to the top without fail. Life does not need any other irrelevant embellishments. Fletcher said that the most hurtful thing in the world is a good job. After you hear it, you feel that you are doing a good job. Then you are satisfied. Therefore, most people in the world are just walking on the path of mediocrity without hesitation.
The final major reversal of the story is that Andrew was kicked out of the band after a head-on conflict with Fletcher and separated, and Fletcher was later anonymously reported his cold-blooded teaching attitude and left. The two seem to no longer have any intersection. People met in a bar one day, the former devil teacher played the piano gracefully and contentedly in the performance with the band, and then he was asked to leave Andrew to invite him to be the drummer of his current band performance. A person full of dreams was still ignited, took out the drum rack and drumsticks from the cabinet, and decided to continue on the journey.
No one had expected that the plot would be a disaster again. On the day of the performance, Fletcher temporarily changed scores on stage. After everyone took out the scores they prepared in advance, Andrew was left with a dazed and panicked look. Fletcher walked up to him without hesitation and said coldly, do you think I don't know who made the report, and then directed the band to start playing. At this time, a picture of the previous school teacher finding the father and son to understand the situation appeared in his mind, but at the time Andrew was obviously reluctant to slap his teacher in embarrassment. Instead, his father's instigation and distressed son's suffering made him half push. So as far as Andrew's heart is concerned, no matter how the devil teacher treats him, he always respects him and is willing to face difficulties. When it was obvious that he was going to be embarrassed, Andrew Liushen Wuzhu, whose expression of shock made him wish to find a hole to drill immediately. After reluctantly following the band's beat and drumming, he decided to flee in a hurry. I ran into a caring father in the background, and said with a worried look that his son, let's go home, don't try to be aggressive anymore.
But after thinking about it again and again, he chose to return to the stage to start a solo of a person. Then the plot reached a climax. We saw a selfless drummer immersed in the world of music, we saw the cooperation of other musicians after he was struggling to beat, we saw Fletcher's angry eyes but also admiration for his fellows, and even more. Perseverance and obsession in the pursuit of greatness.
Be the greatest, or nothing. How to surpass oneself is not only a physical struggle, but also a spiritual struggle. We are full of admiration for those who stand at the top of the pyramid after untold hardships, more because we can't bear the pain they have endured. We often choose the Sunshine Avenue and give up the adventure that is full of thorns but may usher in a paradise. J.K. Simmons, who played Fletcher, won the 87th Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, the 72nd Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor, and the 68th British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. A good supporting actor, when he entered an old age, harvested the pinnacle of his life.
You can choose a stable and mediocre life, or you can choose an aggressive and hard-working life. No matter what kind of life, there is no so-called right or wrong. However, most of the greatness depends on the diligence in exchange for life, not the so-called talent. So, even if you work hard, it does not necessarily mean you will achieve the excellence you want; even if you exhaust your life like a candle, it may be just a cannon fodder of hard work, but at least, you have burned. To be great, you must have a sense of death that is worthless even if you burn yourself out.
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