Great performances but the same can't be said for the film

Rating: Null/10 (30 March 2017)

Whiplash delivers some great and intense performances from Miles Teller and J K Simmons. They conveyed an intensity throughout this film and the audience can easily understand how much being a great musician means to the young Andrew. In the same respect the audience can appreciate how the teacher wants to uncover the next best thing and push for greatness.
However the performances are the best part of the film because the film seemed slow and disjointed. It also felt incomplete in the end. We got the sense that the plot was about a relentless teacher striving to push his students to their full potential and you have a student striving to be the next big thing. However the film abruptly ends with Andrew's fate not being revealed. There was no text to reveal the outcome of the entire movie. Apparently this was a satisfactory ending.
I understand others may not share my view but it is quite disappointing to see films made like this are considered art. We are starting to let go of coherent, deep and well thought of films in favor of incomplete, slow and dull films. What makes it worse is you have so called film critics in magazines who struggle to form basic sentences calling it art. In its essence Whiplash is characteristic of new art films that ask you see something that isn't there. To conjure up a feeling or a depth that simply does not exist in the film through its writing, symbolism or directing. Some of the critics for this film will go so far as to say you didn't see the point and then fail to explain it coherently themselves because the reality is you can't. Hot air only gets you high enough. Sadly these films are attracting more sheep or bees to an artificial honey. It's no surprise Moonlight won the 2017 Oscar for best picture.