"High Fidelity"

Question 1:
What is the movie about?

- The movie is about a guy name Rob Gordon and his love story, up until the last one told by him. It is interesting because the love portrayed in the movie is not just a typical love story. The director is creatively goes against the typical love story normally told by people. Rob, a record store owner had a girlfriend name Laura who has just left him during the beginning of the movie. This final breakup leads him to recall his five most memorable breakups and to wonder what happened to his ex-girlfriends and why they left him. Being rejected is part of life. However, being constantly rejected in love means that there is something wrong with you. Therefore, Rob recalls his past and locates all his exes. He managed to get information about them and asked them why he was rejected. The answers is there. Even though Rob could not see it, we as the audience know the problem. This is unique to me due to men normally do not dig their past love life. They normally move on. However this movie shows us many beautiful quality n Rob. Nevertheless, I must say, it is still a beautiful love story between Rob and Laura when he finally knows what went wrong in his relationship and work his relationship well.

Question 2:
How it is different from love fiction?

- This story relates the love with songs. I personally think that those songs played in the movie are significant to Rob's love life for example, "You're Gonna Miss Me, Always See Your Face, and Fallen for You". Somehow, it reflects to his story "The 'Best' Breakups Story". Furthermore, it obviously shows that men are just equal as women. They have personal feelings and men do cry sometimes. It is never wrong to cry even for a guy. This is not a stereotypical love story where the hero acts gentleman and macho kind of guy. Those are just another part of men. But, deep inside men's heart, we cry a lot. Sometimes, we let out emotion takes control on our intellectual judgment. This movie is unlike an ordinary or typical love story ever produced in the world. The reason I am saying this is through the character "Rob" is playing. He is totally different from the typical guys that we normally look at. The idea of not showing Rob as a romantic person is unique. It shows that not all men are like that. That is so lame when we are expecting men to be polite, nice, gentleman, 'cool', easygoing etc. Rob is totally out of that zone. He is more frank, clueless and there is nothing that woman adore about him except his pretty look. One more thing about this movie is; it displays the characteristic of Rob as a straightforward person. He talks whatever he thinks. Even his proposal to marry his girlfriend was too sudden and too frank. I would say that this comedy is brilliant in a funny way. It is not just a love story, it is about men's world and relationships around them. They deserve to be treated as fair as they treat women.

Question 3:
Who is your favorite character and why?

- I would say Rob Gordon is my favorite character. He represents all men in this universe. Men are not as macho as they think they are. Rob leads a pretty messed up life. He owns a record store which was failing as his life was failing. However, he is surrounded by loyal friends who helped him a lot. When looking at his love life, I think most guys are as same as Rob. They are clueless especially when they have no idea what is going wrong in their relationship. Nevertheless, in the end, Rob manage to overcome his messed up life and work on his relationship with Laura. They disagree on things but they can work out together well. One more thing about him that I like is because he reflected on his past to review on what went wrong with his relationship previously. He is a straightforward guy. This value is nice especially when you want to express your feelings precisely to your love ones. I like the message through the comedy brought up by Rob. It is not just dry comedies. It is full with messages. I like him in terms of he always think he is good in everything. He possesses self-confidence in his attitude and he somehow questions about his breakups. He is so down-to-earth to be brave telling the audience about his failure relationships before. Kudos to Rob Gordon!

Question 4:
Provide an alternate ending.

- This is just my personal opinion. I just think that the end should be this way. Rob has faced many breakups. Therefore, there will be times in his life where he hates women. He feels like he has been ill-treated by women. He rebels. He hurts himself and find a way to forget about loving woman. Suddenly, he is having a thought of becoming a homosexual guy. He goes to gay clubs and bars to enjoy himself. One day, he meets a queer at a club and they flirt. Rob brings the guy to his apartment and there comes the explicit scene. Both of them live happily for quite a while. Rob succeeds in his business this time with his success through the promoted band. He makes a lot of friends especially with the gay community.

Five years later, Rob holds a reunion with his friends and exes. There we can see how sorry those girls become when they actually still have feelings on Rob. They feel that they have done a terrible sin of rejecting Rob. But it is too late to say sorry because Rob is leading a happy life with the humor continues.

I am pretty sure this idea is lame and unacceptable. However, there is possibility in everything.
Just for the record, the original ending is beautiful in a comedic way.