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Do I Listen to Pop Music Because I was Miserable?
by Rhama Arya W (movies profile)
Nov 28, 2005
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Personally, i had a rather low expectation toward a movie which include its character to do the narration. But unlike others, this movie explicitly includes the narration as its main character, Rob Gordon (John Cusack) literally talks to us, the audience via the camera. And its quite change my perspective toward this movie.
High Fidelity was a comedy-romantic genre movie, it was told about the live (and obviously love) of Rob Gordon who owns the Vinyl shop based to his great interest to music. His interest by the way, was undeemingly great, so great that he had a very huge collections of vinyl record in his apartment and which he remembers each and every story of how he had purchased those records.
Apart from that, Rob's live was miserable as he'd carry his adolescence up to that point of his live. And when his girlfriend, Laura decides to leave out of Rob's apartment it grieve him and leaving him wondering what he has gone wrong. And after deciding the top-5 of breakdown lists, Rob began to search his purpose, his mistakes, and so adjourning the journey to the adulthood.
During his journey, Rob accompanied with two of his worker at the vinyl record, one played by Jack Black, whose as hillarious, crazy, and rocks as always and the other by Todd Luiso, whose depth thought, and his inept to speak often led his mockery by his work-mate Jack. But then, all the while these three character at the vinyl record shop was greatly intertwining each other, and sometimes led to a good laugh out of it. Very entertaining i must say.
One interesting point of this movie that it often includes the rain scene. I count at least 4 different occassions in different times that portrayed Rob, soaked wet and stood by under the rain. If that wasn't add the gloomly of Rob's condition at the moment, it would be no more than a failed effort to provide such scene to the screen. In my case, it would be the latter which occurs.
All the while, John Cusack superbly played as the main cast of this movie, his rather sad looks very well impersonates his journey to adulthood. Of whether his journey had reached its goal or not, still remains to be seen. And of course, Jack Black. This was the second movie of his (after School of Rock) that i saw. And here, he was more hillarious than the School of.. his vast reference to the Rock stuff mingled very well with his daily routine as the vinyl record shop clerk who often discharges a potential customer only because he thinks that the customer doesn't have the sense of music the way he does.
Not one of the greats, but quite memorable. |
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