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Film · Sony Pictures Classics · 2014

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Whiplash

40Leave it.

The craft is real. The teacher is a predator with a metronome. Do not confuse the blood with the music.

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The review

Andrew practices, which is more than most films about art are willing to show. Fletcher's claim is that the next Charlie Parker only appears if a teacher is willing to destroy the students who are not him. The film knows this is a cruelty and then stages the last number as a consummation, so the cruelty gets the music. A standard is not a license to assault a student. A great chart played by a ruined boy is not a victory for the art.

Adults and older teenagers who play something. Watch the rehearsal. Refuse the ending's romance. If a teacher, a coach, or a parent in your life draws blood and calls it belief, the belief is not the part to keep.

Journal

Keep Whiplash in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Bohemian Rhapsody

49 instead of 40

Bohemian Rhapsody is still a drama film, and it scores 49 instead of 40. What you gain is stewardship: What he leaves, in the film's telling, is the music.

The eight

9
Industry
Practice until the hands split. The work is the subject, and it is not faked.
3
Household
A father who comes to the concerts and is humiliated for being gentle. No other house.
1
Piety
Greatness is the idol. The teacher is its priest, and the priest hits.
6
Courage
He goes back on stage. Nerve is not the same as wisdom, and the film wants you to forget the difference.
3
Republic
A conservatory. No public beyond the room that can make or break him.
2
Temperance
Abuse is the method, and the climax asks you to find it beautiful.
5
Truth
The teacher lies, chairs, and humiliates. Some of that is exposed. The ending blesses it anyway.
3
Stewardship
What he might become is a player. What the film risks leaving you is a permission to be cruel in the name of a standard.

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

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The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Doctor Strange

50 instead of 40

Doctor Strange is still a action film, and it scores 50 instead of 40. What you gain is temperance: His ego is the subject.