Whiplash Movie And Ptsd Do Not Mix!

[WildMermaid]

Zombies for the win! Braaaaaaaaiiiiinnnnnsssssss... *grin* <3

 

[Wen]

@Born to Run - Thanks for your post. I actually kinda got to the end, and I say kinda because after the car crash my husband went to headphone and I tried to concentrate on the game I was playing on my computer. I couldn't help but keep looking and honestly, even without sound, I knew exactly what was happening. I saw the ending and I was glad that the kid decided to not let his teacher get the better of him and played his ass off. But even with that, the damage was already done. The combination of verbal abuse and the accident was all it took, so no matter what happened afterwards, it wasn't going to stop me from spiraling. I guess I felt that even tho the teacher smiled and seemed to approve, his approval didn't mean sh!t to me and not important at all. He was a man I could NOT respect in any way, shape or form. And if I don't respect someone, then their opinion, approval, happiness, etc... means nothing to me. Bravo for the kid, but the teacher is still a monster in my eyes. Sorry, that's the hypersensitive spiraling side of me wishing I could shove all those awful things the teacher said back down his own throat :tdown:

 

[SeaQuel]

Movies are tricky for me these days, so I can completely understand your struggles. Even if I know what a movie is about (seen the trailer, whatever), there have still been times when something will trigger me and it wasn't even a central theme of the movie. This is one of the reasons why I gravitate towards rentals.

I found the end of this movie a profound display of good over evil. The drummer kicked the abusive teacher's proverbial as*. But that's just how I interpreted it; I understand there are probably many, many interpretations to the same scene and movie.

 

[Born to Run]

Yes, Wen I totally understand your point of view and your emotional reaction. The deepest drive of the teacher was to bring out the best in his students, but was unscrupulous in his methods. He was harsh and mean, still I could also see his total maniacal devotion to music, which led him to behaving the way he did. Not to justify, as he did go too far.

 

[WildMermaid]

@Wen last night reading this thread I had a mini panic attack and did not clue into why until bed. Your reaction to the "Whiplash" movie made complete sense and it was the word "reeling" that did it. When I was in High School I had Summer School -which was fab by the way- because of missed time from surgeries. During Literature class we read One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest the book was a tiny bit triggering the movie which we earned the right to watch was unbearable! The scene with the electro shock treatments at the Oregon State hospital sent me reeling out the that room crying uncontrollably. My biological father was there in that hospital with paranoid schizophrenia received many shock treatments and the visceral nature of that scene was traumatizing. Anyway, not trying to derail your thread just wanted you to know i empathize. :hug: