One of the best films of the past 10 years.

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2015)

WHIPLASH!!!!
Whiplash is an independent movie brought to you by writer/director Damien Chazelle. Chazelle entered a short story into the Sundance film festival in 2013. The clip was so high praised he gained funding to adapt it into a full movie. When it was shown in last years Sundance Festival on the 16th of January. It was given such high praise It won the Dramatic Audience Award and has been consistently talked about ever since.
Do not fear greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. And boy, did this movie achieve it.
Andrew Nieman (Miles Teller - The Spectacular now), is a 19 year old drummer at the fictional Shaffer Music Conservatory in New York City. Plagued by his farther's failure to become a prestigious writer, he will stop at nothing to reach his goal of becoming one of the greatest jazz drummer of all time. One day while he is practicing he catches the eye of the great Terrence Fletcher. (J.K. Simmons - Spider-Man Trilogy) Who leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. After impressing him, he thinks he has got the sweet deal he had always dreamed of. But instead of being the knight in shining armour that Andrew thinks is. He will soon discover Fletcher's frightening and brutal methods that will forever change his life. Andrew's passion to achieve greatness quickly spirals into an obsession. eventually pushing him to the brink of both his ability and sanity.
Editing isn't really something I pay attention to, or even notice while watching movies, but the editing in this movie is fantastic. It is filled with swift transactions between the character to drum set. How it moves perfectly over to each drum or symbol in perfect timing to the music. The back and forth switching from character to character is outstanding, especially in the confronting, and emotional scenes.
The most liberating thing in this movie, for me, is the acting. Oh man, the acting is incredible. J.K.Simmons really does give the performance of his life in this movie. He's so viscous and mean but he plays it to a T. You may say "well, it doesn't take a great actor to be able to scream and shout", but to give the emotion and brutality that he put into his scenes I feel absolutely no one could do better. Picture J. Jonah Jameson mixed with Sergeant Hartman from FMJ, but 10 times worse, and that's Simmons in this movie. Also let us not forget, Miles Teller. He really poured his heart and soul into this movie, a ground breaking performance from him. He catches the emotion of Andrew to perfection, and I couldn't imagine anyone fitting that role more than him.
This movie is near perfection, the only real flaw I have with this movie is Andrew's girlfriend, Nicole (Melissa Benoist - Glee) I don't really thing she was necessary to this movie, maybe if they would have added just a few more scenes, maybe an extra 5 minutes, just so we could get a real feel for her character and care how she ends up. That is the only thing stopping me from giving this a 10/10. A 9.8/10 will suffice. But it is definitely in the run for some Oscar nominations and I believe it definitely deserves a few wins as well.