Very educative.

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2015)

What the young director, Damien Chazelle, proposes us to ponder upon is:
Is high performance a natural product of talented people, or is there, at the core of it, an unhealed wound that makes people want to demonstrate they are worthy of love and approval?
The main ideas of the movie are: - the incompleteness that is experienced when people feel average; - the absence of one parent leads more often than not to a deficiency of love, which makes people strive to fill this hole with professional recognition;

perfectionism. This hurts. This is "whipping"! - sometimes we accept being persecuted. We enroll in the mad dynamic of victim-persecutor when we think we need some people's approval;

Dominators build their power by humiliating others;

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