Narration Proliferation Transformation: The Audiovisual Trilogy of Whiplash

Abstract

In Damien Chazelle's Whiplash, a very stylized audiovisual language was adopted to construct an alienated landscape of contemporary film art. In order to deeply analyze the film, this study proposes a tripartite analytical framework - narration, proliferation, and
transformation. The analysis demonstrates how technical elements drive narrative progression, how the human body's physical limits are
transformed into a totemic symbol of obsession, and how the film establishes a competitive model of "sound-vision" that interrogates
cinematic ontology by transcending traditional audiovisual relationships to. As indicated by the findings, the interplay of these three functions makes the audiovisual form sublimate into the ontological core of the theme. In this way, the generative mechanism of audiovisual
language in cinema is exposed.