Unrealistic

Rating: 3/10 (6 February 2015)

I just can not understand how this movie does get so much acclaim. The whole movie is just so unrealistic. I have learned and practiced 2 instruments here in Europe and can only say when I watch how this Shaffer character treats musicians like football players, this would never work. In such an environment any musician would get so tense and so full of fear to fail, he would certainly do exactly that. This is not how musicality and technique is teached. Never. Music is not sports. What Shaffer does may create a robot band that plays precise like a computer. But the music that comes out that way will sound alike. People in music are sensitive. Teaching is a process of mutual understanding, respecting and elevating between teacher and student.
Further, a good drum technique with speed is not achieved by such tensioned convulsion, it needs the right finger and hand control and swing.
The acting is certainly admirable but the cuts are sometimes worse then just distracting.