the story is all about the man named Rob Gordon. He is in his thirties and his life is full of failure.. He has his own business, which is record storage.. He loves music and do propose a girl by giving her a compilation music tape... but, he is not so succeed neither in career nor relationship. He has his top five all time break up list, and most of the relationship ended being dumped by the girls. This situation makes him feel so sad and curious, so he started to find out the reasons why it happens to him very badly... First step that he takes is to call all his ex-es and try to figure out the reasons they dumped him. Most of the reasons he could find out is the girls met someone better than him..But,he did dumped one of his ex-es because she refused to make love with him( i do hate Rob in this part, it is not so called love but more to lust, he should respect her feelings)..But, other than this, he is the one who always be rejected..
Laura, the latest girlfriend left him to be with the neighbour who lives nearby.. At first, Laura is not be listed in the Top Five break up list, but suddenly he changes his mind. Slowly, he realizes that she is the special one. He couldn't take her out of his mind.. And when he tries to get her back is the interesting part of this movie.. He learns more about love then... He thinks about love seriously when his friend ask "why he wants Laura back so badly"... Both of them actually do love each other... But, people cannot satisfy everyone's needs... Sometimes, the small things could give a bad impact in the relationship.. And we only realize how much he or she is meaningful to our life just after we lose them... But still this movie has the same types of love story ending, the happy ending... Laura and Rob be together and their life is more meaningful and much much better than before...
Other than that, his shop is also getting better same as his relationship with Laura.. Rob's employers, Dick and Barry be more responsible towards the shop and working with each other as a good team at the end of the story.. At the beginning, Barry gives the mess to the shop. He is kind of selfish and annoying to people. He is one of the reasons they have no customer..But, time after time, he changes to be more useful one..Barry and Dick form the band called Sonic Monkey Band(if im not mistaken)... And start from then, the business is be more success...The friendship that occur between them makes their life be more better... So, we should learned something from each other to build a better world....
There are lots of moral values in the movie..As the title given is High Fidelity, so it does teach us to be faithful and avoid from being infidelity towards our soulmate, partner or friends.. Find our weaknesses before we put the blame on others.. do respect others..and the most important thing is dare to make a move...
2- How is it different from the common fiction?
From the starting of the movie, i could see lots of differences between this movie from the other same genre movies..The way the story go through is quite enjoyable..This movie use the hero as the narrator of the story, and this kind of approaches make the audience feel close to the character. It feels like he talks to me..So, i am eagerly to know more what happened next..Other than that, High Fidelity give a different point of view about life and relationship. Why am i saying that is because most of the common comedy romance have the typical and stereotype story line. But this movie offered the different views about love. One of them is when the hero commonly been illustrated as the strong and perfect character in most of the movies, is illustrated as the loser and desperate character build. Some people might think that a man is always have a luck in the relationship or commitment...maybe they should watch this movie and get the better figure about real life through Rob's relationship in a bad or good. Knowing how the man who almost been rejected by the women facing the problem, what did he does to discover it and how he manage to accept his weaknesses..
Watching this movie helps me to figure out the men's thoughts about some of the things. The funny and simple Rob actually have his own sentimental characteristic which we could obviously see in the movie. We could see the man crying in the rain and madly think about her ex..How is he really wants to get Laura back show how childish he is, but still acceptable and sweet.. Maybe in the real life, we do act like what he did, such as calling her at night when she is having a dinner with other man or lingering outside the house, hoping that she will comes out and see you(or maybe wants to ruin their time together because of the jealousy).
The other differences brought by this movie is the variation. Commonly, guys do approach a girl with roses or chocolates. Yes, it does a romantic gift to give but the differences could be more precious. Rob approaches his girlfriend by giving the compilation music tapes. As he loves music, he used it as a special moment to share with his soul mate..and to me, this is kinda romantic gift. For the guys out there, this movie help them to be more variable in the relationship..3- Who is your favourite character? Why?
She is a working class person.. meaning that she is not a dependable person... She has her own principle and always follow her own intuition.. Because of this reason, i choose Laura as my favourite character..She left Rob when she thinks that he is not deserve her love..She told Liz the reasons she broke up with Rob. First, is because he slept with other girls..Secondly, She was pregnant and then did the abortion..Other than that is because Rob said that he wants to meet other girls than her..Lastly is because she feels so dissapointed when he borrowed her money just after she aborted.. This shows how irresponsble he is towards his girlfriend..
I love Laura because her feeling towards Rob is not so unclear at the beginning of the story..but when we going through the movie, we realize how deep her love is for Rob...We know that she decided to break up is because Rob not so serious in their relationship... besides that, her maturity when facing or handling some situation captured my heart the most...She do loves Rob..i could see her saying "love you" whisperly when she called him to inform that she wants to take her stuff from Rob's home back... This situation shows her egoism...She doesn't want to give him a chance as he doesn't want to change himself.. She is also good in setting up an event... Her ideas on the show come up when Rob decides to create a record label..And the show end up succesfully...
Other than that, Laura can also forgive and forget towards Rob.. She comes back to him after Rob confessed his true feeling about love.. he realizes that Laura is the one who he truly fall in love with.. The sweet moment is when she went out looking for Rob during her father's funeral...She asks him to some place and after that moment, their relationship is getting better and better...
4- Provide an alternate ending.
The ending should be still the happy ending romance story..The only difference is the way they getting back together...Maybe Rob and the journalist is having an affair...then after a couple of months, he dumped her because he realizes that he doesn't love her... Then, all of his ex-es except Laura come to him and ask him to get along with again... The dilemma occurs when he doesn't know which one to be chosen.. But at the end of the story, he couldnt forget Laura and realize how meaningful she is to him.. so, he decided to marry her and set up the event which is dedicated for Laura..However, Laura refused to accept him then and end up married with Barry, who is then turns to be a smart, understanding and caring guy..Rob feels so sad, but Penny bring happiness to him then. She is there whenever he needs someone to be with. And after a few months, both of them get married and live happily for the whole life. ...end of the story...
