![]() Most of the time, the reasons are as small and petty as “I just wanted out”. Sometimes It Doesn’t Mean Anything – Relationships end, full stop. Once you quit torturing yourself over “what happened,” you can decide to just get over things. Rob’s constant breast-beating and cloth-rending about his Top 5 break-ups comes to an abrupt halt only when he decides it does he’s got his superficial answer and now he’s happy. Closure is what you get when you’ve figured out how to justify what happened in order to make yourself feel better about the matter. ![]() It’s the first-world problems of relationship issues.Ĭlosure Doesn’t Exist – Closure is just another word for “vindication”. It just makes you look like someone who’s too into how “tortured” he is. Quit brooding, it’s not romantic nor does it make you darkly sexy. Let this be a lesson to all of you: you’re not Angel, and you’re certainly not Lord Byron. Rob seems to actively define himself by how miserable he is and by his lost loves and frankly it’s obnoxious and self-absorbed. After that, you reach a state of diminishing returns until you hit thatpoint where you’re just soaking in the misery because you like it and none of your friends want to hear any more about old whats-her-name. A week at the most if there wasn’t an actual death. Quit Wallowing – While the temptation to throw yourself a pity party is understandable. As he tries to connect the dots between his Top Five All-Time Worst Break-Ups to his current failure, he manages to stumble across many important truths. ![]() Spoilers ahoy!Īs the movie starts, Rob Gordon (Cusack) has just been dumped by Laura (Iben Hjejle and don’t ask me how you pronounce that) and has started down the oh-too-familiar downward spiral of connecting his current break-up with every failed relationship he’s ever had. Which means naturally, there is plenty for nerds to learn from. And yet, Cusack’s charisma as Rob Gordon makes you identify with him even as you start to realize that you can identify with his asshole side too. Stick with me though, because High Fidelity is, in my never-humble opinion, one of the best break-up movies (and the Nick Hornby book it’s adapted from) available… that doesn’t involve actively destroying your ex’s new boyfriend. It’s a rare movie that is willing to show a main character, the dumpee, as he really is: self-absorbed, absolutely convinced of his own self-righteousness and, critically, a complete asshole. John Cusack and Cameron Crowe have a special place in Nerd Hell waiting for them for what they’ve inadvertently done to impressionable geeks for generations. “A John Cusack movie? Have you lost your goddamn mind?”
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