In your long study experience, you must have had all kinds of teachers. Some are ordinary, and some are unforgettable to you. The reason is that they are very good people and have changed you, or they are very good. Bad, it also changes you.
If you have people studying music around you, they should indeed be worthy of your admiration.
Learning music is a difficult road. At first, I hurriedly signed up for a hobby class because I saw others playing so coolly and collected a bunch of learning materials online. However, within a few days Interest has become a disappearing light, and musical instruments have long been put on the shelf.
I believe everyone has watched last year’s hit love musical "La La Land". Its director, Damien Chazelle, is a genius. At the age of 29, he has already released his awesome debut novel "Explosive Drummer"
What is the mission of a teacher? It is to impart knowledge and solve doubts. The devil teacher in the movie "Crackling Drummer" physically destroys people and tortures them mentally. This kind of stick education is completely contrary to the people-oriented education concept we advocate.
If we have never met a perverted teacher, then we are lucky. Think of Fang Siqi, Tao Chongyuan, Yang Baode, and Chen Xiaowu. . . . The real world is far more dramatic and absurd than the movies.
The English name of "Whiplash" means "whiplash", which implies that the movie will not have a sunny and upbeat tone.
Of course, what touched me the most was the protagonist’s explosive and passionate emotions.
The plot is really explosive! Everyone who has practiced a musical instrument or worked hard for an artistic performance can have a deep sense of passion, respect and fear of strict teachers, and a suffocating feeling of eager to absorb their energy, but being pushed to the cliff. I want to be more technically perfect, but I find that music is much more than that. The surprise and fear.
The film is like the jazz in it, a product of adrenaline-fuelled blood and sweat. It is imperfect but irreplaceable
19-year-old Andrew grew up in a single-parent family and wanted to be a top jazz musician. drummer. One night, he was practicing drumming alone in the rehearsal room. He was overheard by Fletcher, the "devil" music teacher who had been recruiting drummers for the band, so he asked Andrew to try playing "double-time swing", but Fletcher didn't finish listening. Slamming the door and leaving showed that he did not satisfy Fletcher.
Afterwards, Andrew practiced double-time swing hard, and Fletcher still took a liking to him and let him join the band. Fletcher lived up to his reputation. In the first rehearsal, Andrew felt his harshness. : All kinds of swear words and slaps are just a small case, and everything you can get your hands on can be thrown at Andrew in a minute. Just because he couldn't tell whether one of the beats in the song Whiplash was fast or slow.
In order to become a core drummer, Andrew began to train even harder, even playing the drums until the tiger's mouth cracked, and then glued it with a band-aid. At an important performance, the core drummer who could not memorize music lost the music score. Andrew's hard practice on weekdays won him the position of core drummer and completed the performance perfectly.
Despite becoming a hardcore drummer, Andrew's obsession with art and drums has not diminished. At the family dinner, he faced the superiority comparison of "other people's children" (cousin), and had a fierce dispute with his family and relatives. He said cruel words like "I would rather become a musician and lose my life, drink and take drugs, and die at the age of 34 but be remembered by others, than have a rich family and a safe life but not be known."
The words are full of the blood of young people, but they don’t know that this is the beginning of their degeneration. Andrew attended the best music school, and his core drummer's position was replaced by a newcomer. The devastated Andrew even felt that his caring girlfriend had become a burden to him, so he decisively got rid of her. Andrew began to practice even more crazily, and even soaked his hands in ice cubes in order to temporarily relieve the pain of the wound.
After overcoming all difficulties, Andrew finally regained the position of chief drummer. But he had a car accident on the day of the performance, and Andrew almost crawled to the scene to be the lead.
Fletcher cold-bloodedly emphasized that if the performance was ruined, he would be expelled from school
Of course, given the character of the male protagonist, the story does not end here.
The film shows the collision of two different values, exquisite egoism and extreme success.
At the family dinner, he said such ruthless words: "I would rather become a musician and lose my life, drink and take drugs, and die at the age of 34 but be remembered by others, than have a rich family and a safe life but not be known." talk.
The feelings are so hot and scalding.
I think most people hold this kind of value. When I was a child, I also had this kind of secondary value: "Either you will be famous forever, or you will be infamy forever." Looking back now, I think it's ridiculous. I always wanted to achieve great things, but now I don't. Still doing nothing.
Some people say that the confrontation between the two is a disagreement between the mainstream middle class and artists. It is better to say that it is a collision of two different "American dreams".
One is "exquisite egoism", living step by step and striving to seize one title after another that is valuable to him; while the other is a bit crazy, even if the success he pursues is just a "flash in the pan", "crazy is what counts" "Survived" and still did not hesitate to give up health and life. In the eyes of the mainstream group, even if this kind of life comes true, it is definitely not considered a "success."
The film develops a narrative based on affirming the rationality of this madness, and the seemingly anti-mainstream values ??suddenly become orthodox, while the mainstream groups appear to be irrelevant in the film.
The two mainstream young people in the film seemed a little angry after being ridiculed by Andrew. Obviously, Andrew's ridicule touched the sore point of the mainstream group: "Striving according to what society desires, but you can never realize yourself." The drummer Tanner, who was replaced by Andrew, quickly lost his will in the competition with Andrew. Returned to the mainstream and started to study medicine in a down-to-earth manner.
Of course, no one is right or wrong about the two values. It is more that we have all had this kind of value and switched from one to the other.
From "I want to be a big shot" when I was a child, to "becoming a successful person in society" now.
Don’t you feel like your partner is stopping you from becoming a better person?
Or you think your partner is better than you and you feel like you are holding him back?
In the film, Andrew took the initiative to break up with his girlfriend in order to become better, because he knew that he would spend more time practicing drums.
Of course his girlfriend was very angry. It turned out that she was a stumbling block to him and had been preventing him from becoming a better person.
In fact, the two have different life values. Andrew has a clear goal and plan for his life, but his girlfriend does not. Andrew showed his extreme personality many times in the film. He was unable to achieve a relatively appropriate balance between career and relationship, so breaking up was a wise move. There are many similar examples in real life, but most of the male and female protagonists in the examples cannot do what Andrew does.
The indecisive approach leads to mostly bleak endings, with both parties splashed with water. But there are also mutual efforts, and in order to make oneself worthy of the other half, oneself also work hard.
When you feel like your partner is holding you back from becoming a better person? what would you do? Compromise or make a decisive decision?
In fact, people should clearly distinguish between what can be obtained through hard work and what can be met but not sought.
A love, a person who loves you wholeheartedly, is not something God will give you if you want it. When you have it, you should cherish it. It is not just a bus. After one bus, there will be another one. It is probably unique and only owned once in this life. To improve your abilities, you have to constantly overcome all kinds of comforts and temptations in life to gradually achieve it. What you should do is to work harder and harder.
Instead of giving a shabby excuse like love for failure, and then making a stupid decision like breaking up.
I would like to ask, there are many touching stories, movies, and music. Now that I see these, I will no longer cry. Am I cold-blooded? I haven’t cried for a long, long time...
Have I become cold-blooded? Or indifferent nature? Compare this to the male protagonist's love for the drum set in the film, which surpasses everything else. This is why I envy him.
In real life, I have never really loved anything, not even one thing. Why should I spend a lot of time without thinking about the results? I can't do it.
There is a popular question on Zhihu: "Is there a movie that makes you cry in the middle of the night?"
A highly praised respondent said: ""The Burst", Because of envy, because I have never had such ardent love, let alone love, very strong hatred, very despairing sadness, very helpless depression.”
I have a deep connection with the respondent. I feel the same way, I thought it was because my mentality has become mature and I don’t have the energy and passion to focus on, pursue and love a particular thing or person. It’s very envious to see other people living their lives diligently and meticulously, even those who are star-chasers are envious. I find it difficult to be interested in anything.
Have you ever had passionate feelings? It's still the various sensational behaviors you did when you were young. Others don't understand your enthusiasm at that moment, but you just moved yourself.
But we don’t regret it, after all, the three minutes of enthusiasm at that time also had our three minutes of harvest. Life slowly makes us realistic. Maybe we will no longer have such passionate feelings, but we will remember the silly boy we were at that time.