"Breaking Drummer" is a film about music. Its theme is the discussion on campus about the education methods between drummer Andrew and conductor Fletcher between teachers and students-what is the law of success.

Andrew wants to be the best musician, and Fletcher wants to be the conductor who produces the best musicians. Fletcher believed that Charlie Parker became Charlie Parker because Joe Jones hit him with a bowl. Therefore, Fletcher used psychologically abusive education methods on his students, hoping to cultivate his Charlie Parker. A series of abuses began.

19-year-old Andrew is a freshman at the Conservatory of Music. He regards self-worth as the most important thing in life. Everyone has different values. For some people, success is having money, leisure and health; but for Andrew, success is becoming the greatest musician, and his survival value is to be known as a musician. Be remembered by history.

At a family dinner, some people thought that Charlie Parker, a musician who died young at the age of 34 due to alcoholism and drug abuse, was not successful. Andrew expressed his values.

Andrew wanted to be the best musician and put all his energy into practicing the drums.

▍He is strict with his time management. He doesn’t make friends because he thinks friends are of no use; he doesn’t make girlfriends because spending time with his girlfriend would take a waste of time on drum practice, and he has to let these mortals delay his time to become a great man;

▌ He has no mercy for his own body either. He always practices drumming until his hands bleed, then uses ice cubes to stop the bleeding before continuing to practice. After a car accident, he continues to play regardless of his bleeding body;

▌His understanding of morality is quite vague. The first time he replaced Tanner, the core drummer, was because he threw away the music score that Tanner entrusted to him for safekeeping, so he was designated as the core drummer by the grumpy conductor Fletcher. Not only did he not apologize to Tanner, but he was also full of success. The joy of being in power;

▌He didn’t have much resistance to Fletcher’s mental abuse. An outstanding student whom Fletcher taught committed suicide because Fletcher suffered from anxiety and depression. Fletcher was investigated for suspected mental abuse of the student. Andrew was slapped, smashed on chairs, insulted by Fletcher and insulted his family. Fletcher kept canceling his position as the core drummer, and he became anxious and irritable. But when the relevant staff asked Andrew whether he had been mentally abused by Fletcher, Andrew did not readily admit Fletcher's mental abuse, but he finally described it in accordance with the staff's requirements, and Fletcher was eventually fired.

For Andrew, friendship, love, morality, and mental abuse can all give way to drum practice. As long as it affects drum practice, we should give up; as long as it helps drum practice, we can treat it with tolerance.

After Fletcher was fired, Andrew put away everything related to the drums, but the value of being a great musician was still buried deep in Andrew's heart.

Therefore, when Andrew met the expelled Fletcher in the bar, although he suggested that Fletcher's persecution of students should be limited, Fletcher's sentence "The next Charlie Parker" Never get discouraged” allowed him to forgive Fletcher for his past emotional abuse. He also agreed to attend Fletcher's performance at the JVC Festival.

When a person's ideals are frustrated, the ideals may change, but the values ??will not adapt. Andrew is still the same Andrew. Therefore, Fletcher just released a spark, and the powder magazine buried in Andrew's heart exploded.

Fletcher is a devilish conductor, and his goal is to become a conductor who can cultivate outstanding musicians like Charlie Parker. In order to achieve his goal, he used any means and often abused his students both mentally and physically.

Andrew was one of Fletcher's chosen targets.

He subjected Andrew to both mental and physical abuse, including insults from family members, slapping, and throwing chairs. However, his main method of stimulating Andrew was to constantly change the candidates for the "core drummer," which made Andrew feel in crisis about his status. This forces Andrew to constantly push himself to challenge his limits.

There are always three drummers in the band, the original drummer Tanner, the leading actor Andrew and the new drummer Connelly, but Connelly is just a tool used by Fletcher to stimulate Andrew to break through himself. .

▌The original core drummer Tanner threw away the sheet music that he gave to Andrew to help keep before going on stage, because Tanner could not play without the music sheet, and Andrew, who had already known the sheet music by heart, temporarily replaced Tanner. After that, Fletcher made Andrew the core drummer;

▌But soon Fletcher found a new drummer, Connelly, to replace Andrew's core drummer position;

▌In order to regain his position as the core drummer, Andrew broke up with his girlfriend and spent all his time practicing the drums. After his hands started to bleed during practice, he used ice cubes to stop the bleeding. Later, in a competition between Tanner, Andrew, and Connery, Next, he regained his position as the core drummer with drumsticks stained with blood on his hands;

▌During a subsequent performance, Andrew was late and left the drumsticks in the taxi where he rented a taxi. Fletcher Asking for Connery to play, Andrew knew that once Connery performed successfully, his core drummer position would be replaced by Connery again, so he drove back to get the drumsticks and got into a car accident. He climbed out of the car, ran into the performance venue with drumsticks, and participated in an overwhelming performance with blood on his head and hands...

Fletcher was always stimulating Andrew, Use various methods to seize Andrew's core drummer position. Losing the music score will lose the position of the core drummer, being late will lose the position of the core drummer, and being unable to play the music score you just got better than the drummer who has practiced for a day will lose the position of the core drummer...

Letcher kept telling Andrew in various ways that your position can be replaced at any time, your skills need to be better than others, and you can't make any mistakes in other aspects.

Worried that the core drummer's position would be replaced, Andrew became anxious and irritable. He tortured himself crazily, and he yelled and fought with others, almost to the point of madness. It wasn't until Fletcher was fired that Andrew gave up drumming and returned to a normal life.

Fletcher's educational methods destroyed almost all students. Tanner later studied medicine, Connery gave up drumming, and one of his proud students, Sean, who was the concertmaster at Lincoln Center, suffered from anxiety and depression and committed suicide.

Under Fletcher’s devilish training, those who pushed themselves to the limit became depressed and died; those who did not push themselves to the limit lost confidence and gave up. However, Fletcher did not regret this.

Andrew believes that excessive force will cause many people to give up. Just like Andrew, Fletcher should pay attention to scale and boundaries, but Fletcher believes that "the next Charlie Parker will never be discouraged. And I will never apologize for how hard I worked.”

In Fletcher’s world view, if someone gives up music because of his forcing, it means that person is just mediocre, not at all. Charlie Parker. Only those who have withstood his test can be Charlie Parker.

Fletcher was a paranoid sadist, and even expelling him from the school could not change his worldview even a little bit.

"Cracking Drummer" has dual protagonists, and the characters' desires are prominent and remain unchanged. Andrew wanted to be a musician like Charlie Parker, and Fletcher's goal was to be a conductor who produced musicians like Charlie Parker.

To some extent, both Andrew and Fletcher are paranoid. Andrew paranoidly believes that becoming one of the greatest musicians in the world is the only value of his life. Fletcher paranoidly believes that only by forcing musicians to continuously push their own limits can they become the greatest musicians in the world.

Paranoia, this is the fundamental reason why the two people have constant conflicts but can finally reach a reconciliation.

The last part of the film is the performance at the JVC Music Festival, where the biggest conflict between the two broke out and was resolved. The script design and performance of this plot are perfect, with three reversals and climaxes, which makes people amazed.

▌Offense

After Fletcher was expelled from school, he met drummer Andrew in a bar. Fletcher said he was expelled from school because of accusations from other students' parents, while Andrew hid his accusations and pretended not to know about Fletcher's expulsion.

Fletcher told Andrew that he was going to perform at the JVC Music Festival, but he was a poor drummer. He hoped that Andrew could come to this performance, because this time all the songs from the previous music room were used. . The two chatted happily, making people mistakenly think that the master and apprentice had a glass of wine and laughed away their grudges.

However, this is only the beginning of Fletcher's conspiracy.

Before performing on stage, Fletcher said that the audience at the JVC Music Festival are all big names in the industry. Those who perform well can soar to the top, while those who perform poorly can only change careers. After he came on stage, Fletcher told Andrew that he knew he was fired because of Andrew's accusation, and then said that he had to perform a new piece of music before performing the old piece, but Andrew didn't even put the sheet music of the new piece in front of him!

Only then did Andrew realize that Fletcher’s invitation turned out to be a trap: Fletcher was going to use the JVC Music Festival to completely ruin his music career in retaliation for his accusation that Fletcher mentally abused his students, resulting in the Letcher was fired!

This is Fletcher's offense. Fletcher, who has always cared about the reputation of his performances, is willing to ruin Andrew's entire musical future at the cost of ruining one of his own performances at the JVC Music Festival.

▌Counterattack

Andrew played some random drum beats that could not keep up with the rhythm, walked out of the performance hall dejectedly, and gave his father a hug.

Just when we all thought he would leave, he turned around and returned to the performance hall. While Fletcher was still introducing the music to the audience, he started playing the drums and controlled the entire band with his drum sounds. tempo, Fletcher became a dispensable conductor. Fletcher, who had always asked the band members to follow his own rhythm, had no choice but to pretend to conduct along with Andrew's drumbeat.

This is Andrew's counterattack. No mercy for Fletcher.

▌Reconciliation

After the originally prepared performance ended, Andrew did not stop, but performed a solo. Fletcher was angry with Andrew at first, but after seeing Andrew's excellent performance, he slowly began to appreciate it, and finally began to cooperate with Andrew in conducting. In the end, the two completed a perfect performance together. The previous deep hatred and hatred completely disappeared, and the two looked at each other and smiled. Fletcher's eyes were filled with relief, and Andrew's eyes were filled with joy.

This is the reconciliation between Fletcher and Andrew.

Fletcher originally wanted to completely destroy Andrew, but when he saw that Andrew had become the next Charlie Parker, he gave up his hatred of Andrew.

Similarly, when Andrew knew about Fletcher's desire for revenge, he was also angry at him, but when he became his ideal Charlie Parker, he forgave Fletcher for designing to ruin his music career. conspiracy.

We can imagine the subsequent story of the film.

Because Andrew told the truth about Fletcher’s mental abuse of students, Fletcher was going to destroy Andrew’s music career. Fletcher was seriously lacking in morals, but this did not prevent Fletcher from Cheer's future development.

Fletcher finally achieved Andrew through mental abuse, which will strengthen his confidence in continuing to use various perverted methods to force students to make progress in the future. More importantly, this may make some people who are originally against this People who are disgusted start to accept this kind of education. Because Andrew cannot be the only person pursuing success studies.

However, the problem caused by Fletcher's education method is that it destroys far more talents than it creates. They either lost confidence and gave up music under Fletcher's torture; or they suffered from mental illness and were tortured to death by mental illness.

After all, most people are just ordinary people, and the greatest musicians can only be a few in a hundred years.

Compared with Fletcher, the initiator of countless tragedies, Andrew will become a tragedy of his own making.

We can imagine Andrew's future: he became the drummer of one of the most famous bands in the country through the JVC Music Festival. After a brief period of complacency, he fell into a new round of anxiety. They are worried that their status will be threatened. Eventually he may suffer from anxiety and depression, which may lead to suicide like Fletcher's brilliant student.

Even if he can endure the torture of mental illness, his life values ??will not give him a way to survive.

Unlike others, Andrew regards becoming the best musician as the main value of his life, and he has a high status because of this awakened "life value" that is better than ordinary people. sense of superiority. He doesn't need mortal friends and girlfriends who don't share his values.

It can be said that music is his only motivation for survival. Family, friendship, and love cannot support his life. This kind of thin life value is extremely fragile and dangerous. Once a new person takes his place and he fails to regain his position through repeated efforts, the value of his life will be deprived and only death awaits him.

▲The look on Andrew’s father’s face when he saw Andrew’s crazy performance at the JVC Music Festival

There is only one possibility that can save Andrew, and that is that no one in the family has studied music. Andrew has a rare musical talent, he is really a genius. Talent will not increase just because a person is strong enough. If Andrew is truly a genius and no one else can catch up to him no matter how hard they try, then he may be anxious but likely to survive.

But what are the chances of this happening?

His future may be the sweat on the cymbals, the blood on the hands, and a life that ends abruptly.

As a bystander, we will feel sorry for Andrew; but for Andrew, this ending may be quite satisfactory to him. He said that he would rather be like Charlie Parker and die young at the age of 34 but be remembered than live to be 90 with a glowing face but be unknown.

This is the life he chose, and only he is qualified to judge his own life! And with that performance at the JVC Music Festival, he has become famous all over the world. Death is no longer so scary to him who has already made a sensation at the JVC Music Festival!