“So what’s Whiplash about?” – Oh it’s about a guy in a music school who wants to be a drummer…
Yea that doesn’t sell it well at all and the reactions I mostly get are “Oh… doesn’t sound like it’s for me.” and that’s an understandable reaction. It’s hard to sell Whiplash to people with a brief plot synopsis, you pretty much have to just say that it is *astounding* and one of the must sees in recent film history.
Bam… let’s begin.…