'Whiplash' showcases actor as sadistic music teacher Simmons plays a familiar character, a relentless and demanding music teacher, but what he and director Damien Chazelle offer us is anything but typical. First he embarrasses him for stopping abruptly. Sometimes they overlap, as when he stands in front of the jazz orchestra and flogs his students with every kind of insult. Some of us went to elementary school in the days when teachers actually arranged the seating in order of intelligence, and so kids spent every day in terror of being demoted to a stupider row. The soundtrack, full of jazz standards, is an enjoyable feature, though in the context of the movie, audiences will mostly feel anxiety hearing them.
'whiplash' Showcases Actor As Sadistic Music Teacher
By Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle: Movies
Thu, 10/23/2014 - 12:25pm
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