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I guess it wasn`t such a great idea to watch this film again after I`d done it something like two and a half years ago. In my mind "High fidelity" had stayed as a very sincere film about love and music, a film for sheding tears if you`re a romantic person and thinking about life if you`re not. Rob Gordon has just parted with Laura, his girlfriend, and he needs to find something in his life that would keep him going. He owns a record store where he has two freaky employees and what they all enjoy in their lives the most is making top 5 lists. Like - top five songs you`d love to hear at your funeral, or - top five breakups. In some sort this film is similar to "Broken Flowers", only Frears isn`t such a great master like Jarmusch who`s able to - I can`t complain that "HiFi" is a bad film and for a music maniac like me it couldn`t be anyway but I just don`t feel the magic anymore. All the endless Cusack monologues, and the crappy "I`ll rather keep it all to myself and later everyone fill find out and hate me for the rest of my days" attitude doesn`t come over to me particulary well. Were it not for the music I`d probably have no interest in this film whatsoever. It`s sad that dreams sometimes tend to collapse like buildings in NYC.