4K UHD - Whiplash is the most riveting and suspenseful film about jazz drumming ever made. Set in a music academy, Whiplash tells the story of a cocky student's twisted relationship with his drum teacher. J.K.
Simmons plays the brilliant but sadistic music instructor. He demands perfection and forces his new student to drum until his hands bleed, but is he simply pulling the best from a reluctant student, or is something darker happening here? Through the miraculous skills of first-time director Damien Chazelle, the rehearsal rooms of a staid conservatory are as tense and dramatic as any cinematic battlefield.
With an editing style as complex as a jazz solo, the film questions just how far an artist must push himself in order to succeed. And makes you wonder whether the beauty that results is worth the pain and fear needed to produce it.