I'll start by saying that I enjoyed the movie and in a entertainment popcorn kind of way. It has great music, nice cinematography and the actors were good taking into consideration of what was asked them to do. But this is about it, which sometimes is plenty taking into consideration the amount of crap movies that are out there. The problem resides on this film being pretentious and flat with not possible depth of it's message in an artistic sense and let's not even go for morale. The film's plot is unrealistic in the way the The teacher (Fletcher) behaves in this particular set up, being incoherent in the way he reacts at certain points of the movie. Also the way the students react to him, or not react in this case being mere puppets. That said, there is no way in the slightest possible way, that this story could be convincing. I wont get into details not to create any spoilers. One might argue that it is an allegory of reality, but that needs to be presented with some real start point, which is completely non existent and it would serve a purpose to convey a strong message, which does not exists and if it intended to exist, it is confusing as hell: being a prick pays off or doesn't? Does talent only flourishes under extreme and sadistic situations, or not? Is being professional and always have the music as the main core the answer, or your own macho ego should prevail? The secondary characters are completely non existing and should not be there to begin with. I found this movie no different from a 80s Reagan movie, Van Dame and alike, only more eye brow and full of nasty clichés.