Intense, Surreal, Sublime!

Rating: 9/10 (13 February 2015)

Never thought that a casual browsing through a film, could turn out to be much more - storming, nerve- shattering, reminiscing horrors of the past, lift above them, and then becoming someone stronger than imaginable.
"Music was never so violent and war-like before"; and in the film, once the performances began the depiction was so hypnotic and fiercely staged with the apparently plain story-line of an aspiring drummer under the training of a bipolar-of-sorts aggressive conductor, that events turn out to be supernova-like - a blast, annihilation, whirlpool of debris, forming, convolution and then evolution. Nothing less than "rise of a phoenix from its ashes"!
One of the most intense and emotionally-charging films that I've come across in recent times. Outstanding!!!
Miles Teller​ is gradually coming in the zone of my favourite actors, and J. K. Simmons​ has given a formidably distinct signature-role in his name now, and that too with panache. An easy 8.5/10. Watch it, to believe it!