To be a teacher is a difficult and demanding job. Everybody who has just once had to help a child do their homework knows this. Sometimes you meet a child who is ready to learn and for whom understanding new material is easy. Usually, an ambitious teacher does their  damnedest to motivate and encourage such a child. But the problem is: how do you encourage  young people who like doing nothing?

The most popular method is "stick and carrot". Can you imagine this method without the carrot but with a stick the size of a club? A teacher who works with this modified method intervenes in the life of young drummer, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), in the movie "Whisplash" by Damien Chazelle. At the beginning, Andrew thinks that he has hit the jackpot when he is chosen by a cranky teacher, a guru for jazz musicians, to join the elite members of the jazz band of a music school.

It very quickly turns out that the road he has started down translates into sweat, blood and tears ­- both literally and figuratively. Mood swings and emotions, punishing work, degradation, taunting... Should learning ever be like this? I think there are some people who should not be teachers. In my opinion, Terence Fletcher (J.K Simmons – winner of the Oscar for best supporting actor) is just such a teacher. He is convinced of his own prominence and infallibility. Even if due to this method he can find a genius who doesn't give up, on the way to this goal he leaves behind corpses which didn't cope with the situation.

How much can a determined young man stand, and how far will a teacher-psychopath who at all costs wants to accomplish his own objective go? Is perfection worth such pain and humiliation? What must happen to change this situation?

The difficult relationship between an ambitious student and his scummy teacher is grounded on jazz music. But in this film the music is shorn of freshness and happiness. It is virtuosity made with murderous work and every note repeated a million times. There isn't any improvisation or playing with sound, and perfection doesn't bring satisfaction even though it sounds excellent.

This film stays in my thoughts and in my opinion deserved to win so many awards. It engrosses us like a thriller even though it is a movie about music. I can still hear musical samples repeated over and over again, and I see determination in the eyes of the young musician. I wonder if I will now associate every piece of jazz music with hundreds of rehearsals and blood dripping on musical instruments.