one mans tragic love life

Rating: 8/10 (9 November 2005)

Rob owns his a record store. There is hardly anyone in there; but he likes it that way. Rob has never been good at relationship. Whenever he hits a good spot, he slides right into a spiral and the relationship just falls apart. We are then taken through his top five worst relationship break up. Though he tries to move on; he cant get over these woman who hurt him so much; so he goes back to find out why the broke up with him so he can finally understand what is wrong with his life and why every relationship ends the same.
This is a great black comedy about lost love, lust, redemption, forgiveness and a look into the male side of relationships. There is a lot of honesty to this movie, all the characters seem like real people. It was interesting when Rob always broke things down into a top five list; this is a very predominant feature of Rob, there's always a top five to everything. Though this does focus a lot on Rob's life, its great when we break off occasionally and we look into his two employees; Dick and Barry. They are such interesting characters, and such polar opposites of each other.
John Cusack is great as Rob, he really suited the role. His narration; its more of a one on one conversation with the audiences, gives you real connection and insight with him, you can see whats going on in his head. Todd Louiso as Dick and Jack Black are great. Jack Black with held his hyper energy and gave a great ground performance, he really shines here.Iben Hjejle gave real beauty to Laura.
What also makes this movie is the soundtrack. Every song is just perfectly picked and timed. The music does seem to organically come from the situations, instead of clashing.
High Fidelity gives you a real high, you feel like hugging someone after this.