How a movie can just grab you and take you on a ride you weren't expecting

Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2015)

I can honestly say that it's the first ever time i've wanted to watch a movie twice in a row. At the end of Whiplash, I was so excited and tense at the same time that I had no idea what to do with myself. The only thing I wanted to do, was watch it a second time...
Whiplash is by far one of the best movies I've seen in my life. I was captured from the start, almost hypnotized by the intensity in this movie. It wasn't even the story that was so captivating, because any movie could have the same plot and turn it into a will-he-won't- he-underdog-becomes-greatest movie. No, this movie had so much more to it, a depth that you rarely see nowadays. It's all about the psychology of the two main characters. They are both painfully difficult to understand, and are both completely messed up in their own way. As soon as they meet, something happens. Something profoundly exciting but scary at the same time, and it's almost mesmerizing...
I'd seen J.K. Simons play some pretty good parts. But with this movie, I was praying for him to win an Oscar. The level of sophistication he brought to his character is just unreal. You completely forget that it's the same guy playing the nice dad in Juno. I kept on wondering what the f I would to if I was the one in front of him. He inspires fear, self- consciousness, rage and a thirst to do better...
By the time this movie was finished, I was clinging on to my sofa unable to think of anything else than this movie. I had so many questions in my head, and the kind of questions you have when a movie doesn't make sense. I was basically struggling to figure out exactly what had just happened, because there were so many different possibilities and ideas going through my head, and I wasn't able to stop thinking about it for days.
Plus, the music is pretty awesome.