Hard to watch but worth it.

Rating: 10/10 (26 December 2017)

This is easily on of my favorite movies. Yes it is hard how the main character is treated, yes the teacher, (played amazingly by J.K Simmons), is a very hard teacher and I of course do not like his method of teaching, but I, as a musician (or at least a singer), understand what he is trying to say.
I have been in many bands, no professional, mostly wedding bands and in bands playing other peoples music, but if anyone think that even amateur bands, as the ones I have been playing in, is not a cutthroat business they are wrong. People get fired from bands every day. In the bands that I have been in, I have both fired and been fired from bands, simply because either I or some other member was not good enough.
Every band wants to be the best they can be and if that means that they have to be mean and fire someone and I knew that if I did not do my absolutely best, I could be the one that was fired.
Let's look at this movie in another light, let's say that it was a movie about American football or any other sport. Any coach wants his team to give 110% each and every time so they can win the championship and the athletes would know that that was what is expected of them. If they do not do their absolute best, there will be someone else to take over, because there is always someone that wants to be better that you. J.K Simmons is that coach, he is hard, he goes too far, but he does it because he is passionate for the music and wants to be the one that finds the next big thing and that is the same as most football coaches wants, they want to find the next Peyton Manning and the players want that too, like the musicians in this movie wants to be the next Charlie Parker or Buddy Rich.
I dare anyone that thinks that this movie is unrealistic, to look at their own life and think what would happen if they did not do their best at their job, would your boss say "that is okay" or would your boss in time find someone that could do the job better than you.
You may not like the characters in this movie, I personally found it hard to like any of them, except Melissa Benoist (who played Nicole), but I understand their passion and this movie did an amazing job showing what it takes to be a professional person.