DES MOINES, Iowa —

Sometimes a film can hit you so hard that you aren’t certain you’ll ever want to sit through it again, that you don’t know you ever want to experience the emotions that it drew out of you more than just that once. Not in a bad way, mind you, but in that way where the film was so well made that it burrowed deep into your soul and pulled out a part of your very being that you thought was buried and held it in front of your face. For me, that film is Whiplash .

While it was my favorite film of that year, and deserved all of the praise and awards it received, I can’t bring myself to sit through it a second time. So much adrenaline had pumped through my system during the finale that I sat through the end credits only because my legs were weak and I could barely stand, let

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