overachiever burnout

A ruthless music teacher pushes a student way past the line where hard work is still healthy in Whiplash. Miranda's new assistant takes a job "a million girls would kill for" in The Devil Wears Prada and learns what it actually costs to stay afloat. Everyone in these movies is ridiculously good at what they do, and that exact success is what's running them into the ground. You watch people get every single thing they asked for, only to keep going past the point where it stopped making them happy.