It’s always a struggle. Whether at home by yourself or with a friend, there is always a certain amount of time reserved to find the best film for the night. People spend time in order to find the best film to watch. Sometimes a great film happens to fall in your hands and then boom! It changes your life. Most of the time, films can be pretty disappointing when you don’t actually spend time searching for them. Here is one that caught people’s attention in 2014.
Unless perseverance and music isn’t inspiring to you, Whiplash is a beauty in terms of sound mixing, visuals, storytelling and acting. Directed by Damien Chazelle (Grand Piano), Whiplash is the story of a promising young drummer (Miles Teller) who enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor (J.K. Simmons) who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.
Miles Teller (Divergent, The Spectacular Now) and J.K. Simmons (Juno) are particularly good. Both intense, the two surprisingly pair up in this love and hate relationship. More interesting, the two play outside of their usual range. This is one of 2014’s best films.