Today’s New York Times published a lengthy review of the new Miles Teller movie “Whiplash” in which he attends Juilliard Music School in NYC and embraces the drill sergeant-like teacher who pushes music students to train as if they were on Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers… or in my case on Tony Karcich’s St. Joseph’s Green Knights.


A great battle of master and student is captured in this movie in the way that a sports movie would present.

I see #33 right in the middle.  I would expect he will have some extra hills either at his own doing or his drill sergeant-like coach.  My advice to that lad, “be one with the hill and believe in the fullback trap”.

The review says, “By going deeper into the details of musicianship than most such movies – by allowing us to hear things as Andrew and Fletcher (the movies main characters) do, and to understand the endless and exacting discipline of their work – this one breaks free of the constraints of realism and takes wing toward the sublime.  


It (the movie) may get a few things wrong, but it aims at, and finally achieves, an authenticity at once more exalted and more primal than mere verisimilitude.


The long, intricate final scene transcends psychological drama with a surge of pure musical inspiration, pushing the audience’s response from curiosity to empathy to awe.


Just try and sit in your seat.”


WOW, what a teaser.  


I may need to drag my new drum playing neighbor Rocco with me to get some inspiration for our new band.