High Fidelity

1. The Movie

This movie is about a guy named Rob Gordon who runs a record store. The setting for this movie mostly circled in his record store and inside his house. He loves to talk about music and artists with his two quite weird assistants, Dick and Barry.

However, the main focused in this movie is on Rob relationship. He is always failed in his love relationship. Even though he always failed but he kept on with his life until one day he broke up with Laura. Laura is one of her lover that he treasured the most. Since that, he became aware that slowly but surely all of his girlfriends will leave him. Suddenly, he became curious to know why his girlfriends did so. Therefore, he tried to contact back all his ex-es to ask them why.

He called his first ex, Alison Ashmore and found out that she already married. Then, he met up with the second one, Penny. At this point, he finally realized that actually, he was the one who left Penny because Penny did not agree to have sex with him because they were still in high school. Then, Rob met Charlie Nicholson, his third ex-girlfriend at a dinner party after Charlie went back from Paris. The reason why Charlie left him is because she met another guy who is more great and glamorous than he is. Finally, he met with Laura and asked her the same question. Laura said that it was because he hadn’t change since they first met. And since then, their relationship became worse.

However, the turning point is when Laura’s father dead. And Laura’s mother invited him to the funeral as sign of respect. This is because Laura’s father liked him so much and did not know about their break up. On the night of the funeral, Laura and Rob made love again and afterward their relationship improved because Laura said that she finally realized that she needed someone like Rob to help her cope with the current situation.

The story ended with happy ending when Rob proposed to Laura for marriage. Laura also helped Rob managed an event which was more like a mini concert because Rob decided to create his own record label, Top 5 Records. The event was a success and Rob’s life has been better since then.

2. Difference from the common love fiction

The difference that I can see in this movie is that, I thought Rob will never find a partner in his whole life. This is because he did not seem to have luck in love relationship as all of his girlfriend will finally leave him behind. At first I thought he possessed bad omen because he would never stick with a girl for a quite long time. However, my opinion changed when the important turning point take place after Laura’s father passed away. Anyway, at first, I still think that Laura just wanted to toy with him because Ian wasn’t there when she felt so sad of losing an important person in her life. But it turned out to be a serious relationship till the end of the movie.

Besides, I thought he would end up with someone different. I mean, I did not think that he will end up with one of the girls from his past because he kept on rejected and being rejected by those girls.

3. Favourite character and reasons

When I watching the movie, I guess many will be attracted with the character of Dick. Dick is a guy who looked innocent, kind and so dorky. However, there’s not much of his characteristic that were shown in the movie. Thus, my favourite character is of course will be Rob Gordon, who is the main character for this movie. From my point of view, I think his characteristics were well developed.

First, I see him as a guy who is only interested in sex and quite immature. This is because, he was willing to dump her loyal girlfriend due to her refusal in having sex with him. But still I can’t blame solely on him. Perhaps, it was because he still young and can’t think straight on what is supposed to be his priority.

After that, he became too sure of himself. He tried for every kind of girls. However, when he met Laura, everything’s changed. He was not sure why he likes her so much. But he just can’t let her go just like the other girls beforehand. Laura really made his world go round. When Laura dumped him for Ian, he can’t accept the fact. Slowly, he came back to his sense and started to curious about the reason most of his girlfriends left him.

But later in the movie, it is shown that he became more and more understanding towards himself and people around him. He was there when Laura needed someone to cope with her situation. And I think that’s the reason why Laura fell for him again for the second time.

Plus, it is in his nature to be so sensitive on certain things like this. Sometime I found it is very interesting characteristic that most men should possess rather than being just-don’t-care and taking things not seriously. What attract me the most for his sensitive characteristic is when he cried in the rain on the funeral day. I think that was a cute side of him to act that way. He was willing to let a part of him shown rather than being ego.

Another thing that attracted me towards him is because of his ignorance. He was dying to know why every girlfriend that he had left him. The way he wanted to know about it sometimes is so obvious. For example, when Charlie mentioned that she already expected that he will be asking such question sooner or later.

4. Ultimate ending

For me, the ending supposed to be sad ending. This is because there are stagnant of movies ending with happy ending. Therefore, this story supposed to be sad. Here how it goes…

Rob will never get over Laura and Laura will stay in relationship with Ian. Rob is becoming more stressful each day. However, instead of keep asking why all his ex-es break up him, he comes to realization that he was the one to be blame. Sadly enough, he still did not change for better and live his life like he used to be. He keeps on trying to get Laura but never succeed. This is his biggest regret in his life.

Later he changed. He knows what has to be his first priority. He balances his work life and his social life. Besides, Rob and his two assistant in the record store no longer scared their customers who did not match with their music style. They became adapt and accept to all kind of music. But still, he did not have a good luck when it comes to relationship. He becomes so pathetic day by day. And keep on living that way…

Other than that, there is a focus on Barry. He is also changed when he met his ideal woman that he is not willing to let go. Sadly, the girl did not like him because he is weird and rude. Barry was trying hard to win her heart but still she refused. One day, she died in accident. Barry cannot accept the fact at first but eventually he let her go. He becomes a Father and aims to be kind to all people.

While Dick who is innocent-looking and polite guy turns to bad ones. He becomes a player because he’s so hot among girls. He never learns from Rob and Barry cases because he is on top of the world.