The Review at the End of the Universe
Off the back of the rip-roaring success garnered for Whiplash, Damien Chazelle has cashed in pretty much all of it so he can take a crack at that increasingly rare beast; a successful Hollywood musical and his attempt comes in the form of La La Land. Being very recently converted from my original opinion that…
Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash explores the obsessive need people have to strive for greatness under brutal conditions. Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is a single mindedly ambitious Jazz drummer attending the Shaffer Conservatory school. He is singularly focused on becoming a music legend and will do whatever it takes to get there. Throughout the film his obsessesion…
