What’s Aged the Worst?
Classroom abuse plausibility; double-rainbow reference; jazz-focused criticism
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- Fletcher's openly abusive classroom language has aged poorly in plausibility because students could record and expose him, while the continued existence of cruelty cautions against assuming abuse disappeared.
- Fletcher's villainy helps turn Andrew obsessive; the double-rainbow internet reference feels dated and unusually online for this teacher.
- Criticism focused on jazz accuracy is judged to miss a story about work and poisonous ambition; racial criticism is partly understood, while Chazelle's autobiographical perspective and Babylon's treatment of a Black musician are offered as context.