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Entry #96

Listening to:

Eliades Ochoa, Sublime illusion.

A recent movie:

High fidelity. This is a film based on the book by Nick Hornby. I read the book 4 years ago while on holiday, and enjoyed it, but didn't remember a great deal of detail from it. Reading about the film in advance, I was impressed by the way that even the terribly partisan British critics said that the film was fine, despite having been shifted in setting from Britain (probably London) to Chicago.

The way the main character, Rob, played by John Cusack, addresses the audience directly ("talks to camera") is initially rather disconcerting, but it grows on you, and comes to seem reasonably natural. His sidekicks at the music shop that he runs are very amusing, and the central romantic plot is well worked out. Not being able to remember the book very well, I can't tell exactly how honest the film is in terms of details (it does invent some skateboarding musical talent, perhaps to give Rob's life more potential meaning than the book does), but at the level of tone and general emotion, it does a great job.