There’s spoilers. So there’s that warning, and
you’ve been warned. You can turn away at anytime, because it’s gonna be sudden
in how I reveal.
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The first thing I’ve got in mind right now when
it comes to the movie Whiplash is… “What in the hell did I just watch??” in a
good way. No, seriously. It’s what I was thinking after I finished the movie.
And so it made me think that I needed to watch it a second time. But then
something made me think: “What really drives one to be great?” Well… I’ve just
learned in this movie it doesn’t just take your drive, but it also takes a lot
of pushing towards you. SO WTF?!!
Let me just take a look at an angle in how the
movie worked… One guy is striving to go further on his own by drumming hard and
trying to make an impression. The devil drops by, and told the guy to play,
keep playing to his standards. As the guy kept the play going, he hears the door
slam shut, only for the devil to come back for his jacket that he purposely
forgot. That, my friends, was the beginning of a story to when this guy would
strive further because he was being pushed so far that he would walk out of a
car accident just to try playing.
You know what kind of person does that? It’s the
kind of person who would gamble everything out of the efforts he’s done just to
make a stunning comeback… kind of like Charlie Parker who was humiliated on stage
just to come back a year later being a bad-ass. Now I see a small resemblance
back then on the character Andrew Neiman in the film when he went back on stage
after being personally humiliated by Terrence Fletcher, his abusive coach who
was suspended from the music academy after being told to, and played the drums
like it was incidentally a Charlie Parker who wanted to make a comeback. And he
did… with a vengeance. With all his sweat and blood, not only did he prove to
Fletcher that he was able to overcome everything that was thrown at him, but it
also costs him his humanity. THAT to him is how he would strive for greatness.
And by the grace of God, he was burning hot at the end of the film. And… Even
when I knew that very certain ending was a dark one, I still loved it. It was a
high note ending even if it was a dark one. That sealed his fate.
So yeah, if you ask me why I liked Whiplash, it
was because it ended up breaking the main character to be great. And… I never
achieved that before. I wish I would have…
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