Last Thursday,Mr. J showed us this movie in the class and it was about love in a unique and controversial way. These are the 4 questions that we were asked to answer about the movie.
Question 1:
What is the movie about?
- It was a first person point-of-view movie about a young man named Rob Gordon who likes music and he owns a record store call Championship Vinyl. He's obsessed with the Top Five stuffs that he also called all his broken relationships as the Top Five Worst Breakups. For me,he is actually a guy who's trying to find love and to have a stable relationship with his girlfriend. His relationships with the four of the girls were all ended up with the girls having relationship with other guys and he once dumped a girl who loved him because the girl refused to have sex with him. However,in his last relationship with Laura, a lawyer, he tried to get her back into his life even though Laura could see that they might have a little chances to go on with their relationship. After all, Rob always make assumptions about her like to assume that she might sleep with Ray or Ian. Rob is also a quite vengeful man and always have stupid thoughts. Upon thinking that Laura might have slept with Ian, he tried to spark a relationship with Marie De Salle and tried to sleep with her. He also have bad thoughts about every girl that he had broken up but then realized that it turns out to be the other way round. Actually, he was quite immature in any relationship that he had because every time he saw the girls before, he always thought that this is the girl for me but he couldn't take care of them and he always have the ego that makes him become selfish and never thought of other peoples' feelings.
Question 2:
How it is different from the common fiction?
-It was not totally different from the common love story but this movie provides some twists inside the story line and it looks like a compilation of love stories that end up in sad endings except for the last one which is between Rob and Laura. The differences that we may found in this movie unlike other love stories are for example, we can see that Rob is commenting on his life and about what he feels and what he's going to do about it. He confessed a lot of things and we can feel his feeling which make us see how love is from the point of view of a guy. Rob is not a romantic person and not even someone who cares a lot about the girl that he's in love with. He is not quite a responsible person and a bit immature or childish. In the common love fictions, we can always see that the guy must be charming, rich or educated, and responsible and caring to the girl which implies the personality of a perfect man that a girl always wanted to be with. Common fictions also contains some drama which can make us feel like owh,the character is truly right in almost everything but there are oppositions and conflicts that they have to face in their life. In High Fidelity, there are no such dramas but there are few conflicts that are opposing the relationship like the third person or some misunderstandings that can lead to arguments and so on.
Question 3:
Who's your favorite character?Why?Discuss.
- I don't really think that I am fond of anybody in this movie but the character that i like or agree the most in this movie would be Dick. He is a bald,soft spoken and geeky young man who works with Rob and he likes music so much.Even though he is quite geeky but he is not a freak or weirdo and he is kind and good to everybody in this movie. He is a good character as he don't use harsh words and his taste in music also very good and classy as he also listens to orchestra when Barry came and change the music to something that sounds like crap to me. I think I am bias in giving my opinions in this movie because I really don't like such characters like Barry or even Rob himself.
Question 4:
Provide an alternate ending.
- The movie could end with one of Rob's exes return to him back, for example Charlie for she is quite friendly and brilliant person but she has he own opinion like not to have children for the time being which for me is not a suitable choice to make a wife from her. I prefer if Liz could suddenly fall in love with Rob as she was always responsible in helping Rob to clear up the situations between him and Laura. She is always in touch with Rob and if suddenly Rob realize that how good she has been to him and love is not always about sex, I think it would be another good ending and as for Laura,she can keep staying with Ian or Ray if she cannot accept Rob anymore.
My Problems When I Write Things..
Well, honestly I admit that I'm not a good writer because I always have some problems when I write. I really want to improve myself and if I make any mistakes,please let me know and correct me.
These are my problems that I faced in writing :-
1. Sometimes when I try to explain things, I cannot find the correct words to use and my sentences might end up in a very confusing way.
2. I have lots of ideas in my mind but I find it hard to be expressed exactly, especially in English.
3. Sometimes I do confuse with my grammar usage because I tend to put the wrong tense at the wrong place.
4. Sometimes I write things based on what I am saying which is not supposed to be like that because speaking and writing English are a little bit different.
5. I like to use bombastic words since I was in school and ends up not understanding what i've written. This is kind of silly of me..
I think that's all..If I can think of some more problems,I'll list them out later.
These are my problems that I faced in writing :-
1. Sometimes when I try to explain things, I cannot find the correct words to use and my sentences might end up in a very confusing way.
2. I have lots of ideas in my mind but I find it hard to be expressed exactly, especially in English.
3. Sometimes I do confuse with my grammar usage because I tend to put the wrong tense at the wrong place.
4. Sometimes I write things based on what I am saying which is not supposed to be like that because speaking and writing English are a little bit different.
5. I like to use bombastic words since I was in school and ends up not understanding what i've written. This is kind of silly of me..
I think that's all..If I can think of some more problems,I'll list them out later.
Here Comes The New Semester...
After a quite long time sitting at home, finally I have to answer the call of the new semester in Shah Alam. But, before coming back, I must be ready with all sort of things especially my car since it was just finished the paint job. So after all the servicing and modifying things stuff, on 2nd July I drove back here with my friend which apparently he will become my super junior even though we used to be in the same class when we were in school, but since he took the 'maktab' TESL program, so he will become my junior in the link program with our faculty. well, that's what I like about my faculty, because i have about 6 friends from my school that study here with me and all of them are my juniors here.
So when I arrived here, the first thing I do is to go to the faculty and check out the timetable to make sure that my schedules are all correct but i found out that there were some changes on the time of the class, and I found it less pack but more night classes. Huuu... That was something that I need to bear with this semester. Okay..Then i went touring the whole Shah Alam and Klang and visited all of the places that I missed so much especially the cinema.. well, I don't get to watch movies in Terengganu because they don't have cinema there. I watched lots of movies till now and think i've watched all of the latest ones. What a very up-to-date man I am.. Haha..
When the classes starts, it means that I have to be in the faculty most of the time and it's kind of awkward this time because I can see too many newbies around. I don't know all of them, and feel like don't even want to know them but I think I miss all the seniors who are used to hang around the faculty especially the TESL Square. However, I still like the faculty so much and realizing that I am the senior now,I have this feeling like I never expect to be in this place..the SENIOR place. Well, all classes are fine and fun and I always sit in the front rows right now so that I can understand better of what I am learning. I used to be the 'backbenchers' before and it all ended up not hearing things and lost of focus. So, I promised my mother to change and get something in this semester.
All of the faculty life are so nice and comforting, but there's another life that I have to bear with.. My life as a Commander in the Kesatria.. Well, this is another thing which I don't really look forward to and enjoy so much because to have my trainings and practices, I've to be at the main campus with all the senior commanders who are very rude, cruel and torturing monsters that I hate so much! They have no respects to anybody but they want us to respect them because of their seniority..I think I would let them know someday that their seniority or this Kesatria thing won't go anywhere someday and these bastards who are so fanatic about being the commanders should be taught some politeness in dealing with people. They are actually savages who like to use harsh words and cruelty and bully who don't know how to do their job properly. I was hospitalized last semester because of them and this time, I would give the least commitment to the Kesatria because I know that it doesn't support my education and only give me troubles.
Well,that's all for now..
So when I arrived here, the first thing I do is to go to the faculty and check out the timetable to make sure that my schedules are all correct but i found out that there were some changes on the time of the class, and I found it less pack but more night classes. Huuu... That was something that I need to bear with this semester. Okay..Then i went touring the whole Shah Alam and Klang and visited all of the places that I missed so much especially the cinema.. well, I don't get to watch movies in Terengganu because they don't have cinema there. I watched lots of movies till now and think i've watched all of the latest ones. What a very up-to-date man I am.. Haha..
When the classes starts, it means that I have to be in the faculty most of the time and it's kind of awkward this time because I can see too many newbies around. I don't know all of them, and feel like don't even want to know them but I think I miss all the seniors who are used to hang around the faculty especially the TESL Square. However, I still like the faculty so much and realizing that I am the senior now,I have this feeling like I never expect to be in this place..the SENIOR place. Well, all classes are fine and fun and I always sit in the front rows right now so that I can understand better of what I am learning. I used to be the 'backbenchers' before and it all ended up not hearing things and lost of focus. So, I promised my mother to change and get something in this semester.
All of the faculty life are so nice and comforting, but there's another life that I have to bear with.. My life as a Commander in the Kesatria.. Well, this is another thing which I don't really look forward to and enjoy so much because to have my trainings and practices, I've to be at the main campus with all the senior commanders who are very rude, cruel and torturing monsters that I hate so much! They have no respects to anybody but they want us to respect them because of their seniority..I think I would let them know someday that their seniority or this Kesatria thing won't go anywhere someday and these bastards who are so fanatic about being the commanders should be taught some politeness in dealing with people. They are actually savages who like to use harsh words and cruelty and bully who don't know how to do their job properly. I was hospitalized last semester because of them and this time, I would give the least commitment to the Kesatria because I know that it doesn't support my education and only give me troubles.
Well,that's all for now..
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