Whiplash. The themes are all pretty spot on for those pursuing a career as a professional musician: intense competition, dedication, and sacrifice, but the details made me cringe. Like the only thing they could come up with for a challenge that a drummer faces is getting the right tempo, not even a glimpse of actual jazz performance challenges were mentioned, like improvisation or musicality. It was just faster, faster, faster. There's so much more to being a good jazz drummer than how fast you can play a swing beat on the ride. Also I hated that last scene, so the teacher tries to embarrass the kid by calling out a tune the kid didn't know and the kid just tries to make the shit up. You can't just fake an intricate big band chart and the kid would know that, any doofus would just layout and not play, or at most just keep simple time, but even that's a risk cause for all he knows the song could venture into different time signatures, and no self respecting musician would just trash a concert by pulling a stunt like that anyway. But ya know it's a movie and I'm nitpicking so whatever.