Whiplash (2014)

Fuck it, another movie that should be longer. They could’ve drawn out the stages of the abusive relationship more.

Anyway, this movie is so intriguing cause it makes me questions my own beliefs on coaching. Admittedly, I only know sports but I assume it’s fairly apples to apples. The idea that people respond and do better based on positive encouragement is very true with many replicated studies affirming. That being said, you can’t be the best if you aren’t doing everything you can. Positivity does breed complacency. But the whole irony is that that’s horrible. Does this type of instructing create the greatest of great outliers, yes, but it also leads to the lowest lows. I am starting to really love these types of psychological movies.

I think this movie is great because I see a lot of reviewers say stuff like, “this movies show this movie shows what it takes to be the best” and treat it like an underdog story. The flipside argument is also flawed though.

Was the abuse bad, yes. If your goal is to be the best, would you want this from an instructor, to some extent. So then should an instructor do this? Idk