Damien Chazelle, the young director is undoubtedly one of the most noteworthy of the young generation in the United States, he was born in 1985, only four years older than Lan Li, 28 years old this year, but the baby fat baby face and raunchy otaku dress are always filled with a sense of youth of a fledgling college student.

After graduating from Harvard University in 2007, Damien began working on his first feature film, "Guy and Madeleine on a Park Bench," an independent work that didn't spark much discussion, but showed a brilliant idea of camera scheduling and color composition.

Damien then moved around New York, writing the "Last Exorcism 2" and "The Grand Piano" as a screenwriter, starring John Cusack and Elijah Wood, arguably the "big" independent film productions, and later worked on the critically acclaimed 10 Clover Road.

It is worth mentioning that Damien's parents are highly educated intellectuals, his mother is a writer and teaches at the University of New Jersey, and his father is a computer scientist and teaches at Princeton University.

However, his wealthy family did not become a source of funds for his pursuit of an artistic career, and he went to Los Angeles to support himself. But it has cultivated Damien's creative talent, and in addition to directing, his ability as a screenwriter is also highly recognized, and like Christopher Nolan, he still prefers directing the scripts he writes.

For four years since his first feature film in 2009, Damien has been working on his second film, "The Burst Drummer."

Unfortunately, the film chose to use music as an entry point, and in the contemporary film market, musical films are largely dead, with few studios willing to invest in productions other than teen musicals, and the characters in the script are unlikable or even disgusting to arouse the interest of the producers.

So, after going around and around for nearly four years, Damien was finally at the end of his rope and had to make this decision to try his luck at Oscar night.

Judging from the node in 2017, Damien is still the most high-profile among the new generation of directors, in addition to his debut film, he only has two other feature films, one is "Burst Drummer" and the other is "La La Land".

After the latter's release in 2016, it sparked a flood of praise, sweeping 14 nominations at the Oscars, and winning six of them, recreating the glorious dawn of musical films, and the ceremony, which led to the best picture because of a mistake, witnessed Damien's loss and helplessness.

However, at the age of 31, he won the Oscar for Best Director, and Damien still became the hottest young director in the industry.

Before the "La La Land", the "Burst Drummer" had already shown his talent to the people. This work tells the story of a college freshman at a conservatory who aspires to become a top drummer, but the hellish training of his music instructor tortures him physically and mentally, and he is going crazy little by little in order to achieve greatness.

To put it simply, this is a work that tells the story of "if you don't go crazy, you can't live".

In 2010, a "black swan" vividly interpreted the mystery of the life of madness, when art reaches the state of perfection, the line between performance and reality is completely blurred, like a moth to a fire, rushing to the extreme, Natalie Portman successfully topped the Oscar with this work.

In a sense, the core meaning of "Burst Drummer" and "Black Swan" is the same, the concise and clear story, but in the gradual out-of-control drum rhythm little by little into a runaway madness situation, bringing an indescribable ultimate viewing experience, from the psychological suspense and trembling level, inferior to the "black swan", but the visual impact is stronger.

Under Damien's lens, the sense of paranoia and extreme sense of art burst out heartily, and even a sense of bloody cruelty.

It may not be perfect, but it is able to leave a rich and magnificent splash of color.

If "Drunken Country Ballad" tells the poetic dream of a wanderer, but after all, he is trapped in the same place, at a loss, reflecting the tide of the entire era, then "Burst Drummer" condenses the era into a small person, like drilling the tip of a bull's horns, reaching the extreme in his own world, and finally confronting the whole world on his own shoulders.

One is zooming in, one is zooming out, one is addition, and the other is subtraction.

But there is no doubt about the excellence of both works.

On the Oscars that year, "Burst Drummer" won five nominations for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Sound Effects, and won Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing and Best Sound Effects.

It is worth mentioning that "Burst Drummer" really brings the charm of the two leading actors to the extreme.

In the middle of the story, it revolves around the male protagonist Andrew and the teacher Fletcher.

Fletcher is a demon teacher, a real demon whose words and deeds and even a look are enough to make people tremble. But this is a very interesting character image, he is not "good and evil" above the traditional moral level, but abandons the moral benchmark, for the sake of art, for the purpose, for the sake of profit at the expense of means, the persistence and perseverance in the bones are positive, but the means and methods on the surface are extremely dark.

After watching the movie, everyone in the audience fears him, hates him, and rejects him, but that's Damien's intention. He did it.

J-K-Simmons, who has played supporting roles in many works such as "Spider-Man 3" and "Juno", successfully interpreted this role, and the chilling violence and ruthlessness became the brightest light on the big screen, and even stole the demeanor of the protagonist, becoming the biggest hit in the awards season that year. swept all the way and won the Best Supporting Actor Golden Man.

Andrew is a student, but he is also not a good stubble, bad and rude, selfish, arrogant, a complete little villain, but he, like Fletcher, will not compromise the means to achieve the goal, and the drummer is his dream, he treats himself more cruelly than anyone else, really pushes himself to a dead end, and finally completes a breakthrough in the critical point of art, like a "black swan", to find his own perfection.

Similarly, after the movie, the protagonist is not liked, even though it is an inspirational work, but Andrew's dark temperament is enough to make people repuls.

This is normal. In real life, those geniuses who focus on their own world are often not understood by the world, and furthermore, those geniuses who go crazy and fanatical in art are the objects of exclusion, ridicule and suppression in this society, and there are too many similar cases in history.

Because their paranoia tends to be frightening.

Far from it, Lan Li is like this. The crew of "Buried Alive", the crew of "Fast and Thrill/Emotion 5", and the crew of "I Fight Cancer", Lan Li's whole body exudes the atmosphere of being born and no one is allowed to enter, and for the staff, their emotions towards Lan Li are also contradictory and complicated.

Rookie actor Miles-Teller played the role of Andrew. Before "Burst Drummer", Miles had been polishing himself in independent films, and his first work in 2010 with Nicole Kidman was "Rabbit Hole", and then starred in new versions of "Full of Energy", "Project X", "Beautiful Now" and other niche works.

Miles is not a handsome guy, typical and atypical, but his performance has a raw roughness to it, whether it is "divergent" or "popping drummer", the temperament of both good and evil gives the character a soul. However, objectively speaking, his performance still lacks layers and changes, and the details of his performance are often lost in the bland, often between facial paralysis and vividness, and cannot maintain a stable level.

Miles was able to get Andrew's role because of his experience playing drums. At the age of fifteen, he began to play the drum kit, with calluses in his palms, and when he auditioned for "Burst Drummer", he was twenty-six years old, and he had more than ten years of experience playing drums, which was undoubtedly crucial for the role.

In the actual performance, all of Miles's style was stolen by Simmons, and in Simmons's powerful performance, all of Miles's performances seemed to fall into the shadow of the other party, and all those details and depth were lost in the camera.

In a similar role, Natalie Portman topped the list with "Black Swan", while Myers didn't have a single nomination throughout the awards season. Of course, it is undeniable that the locking of the director's lens has a bonus effect, but on the whole, Miles still has not been able to interpret Andrew's soul.

Despite this, the overall quality of "Burst Drummer" is still amazing, and it is not hindered by the performance in the slightest, this is Damien's skill, from camera scheduling to post-editing, from atmosphere creation to light and shadow construction, Damien presents a perfect stage, and then hands it over to the actors to interpret the interpretation, and the deep internal strength shows the sophistication and calmness that does not match his age.

Whether it is the "Burst Drummer" or Damien Chazelle, this is Lan Li's personal favorite object - the dream of light and shadow in the previous "La La Land" is still vivid in his mind, but he didn't expect to meet it on the side of the road today.

Although everyone says that Los Angeles is a city full of wonders, and there are opportunities everywhere on the streets, when it comes to the actual encounter, Lan Li still finds it quite interesting, which is considered a ...... Is there a gleaning on the road?

If yes, Damien is - a stray curly-haired dog?