Whiplash

I saw the movie Whiplash today and thought it was great. The movie focused on a drummer at a Juilliard-like school in New York and his demanding teacher. (Demanding is too nice of word, but it's all I can come up with now.) As the movie progresses, you see the student just become more and more unhinged in his determination to be the best. When I walked out of the movie, my initial thought was that you can't let someone else control your mind. The teacher in the film just played so many head games with the kid and the kid wasn't able to handle it, mainly because he just didn't understand what the teacher was doing to him. He was being manipulated and moved like a puppet by the teacher. Sad.