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...Carey Mulligan), a London schoolgirl who enters a reckless romance with an older man. Hornby imbues the film’s script with his trademark wit and fast-paced plot development, but despite his compact and compelling writing—recognizable from earlier films like “High Fidelity??—he reveals a weakness for tidy resolution that foregoes the film’s darker, more powerful aspects...
...it’s completely disconnected from your education,” says Charlotte L. Kemper ’07, a former History and Literature concentrator, who now works at Fidelity Investments. While she says that her Harvard education admittedly allows her to think critically and qualitatively at Fidelity??granting her the permission to pass on the number crunching to her colleagues—its value in her life is slim...
Thanks to “High Fidelity?? and John Cusack, the art of mixtape-making has been hammered into each and every one of our music-loving heads. Hours spent alone in front of a fancy tape deck lead to masterpieces that could win hearts or make dance parties rumble.But does anyone else remember the other tapes you used to make? You know—the ones that were decidedly less high art and more about good luck. The ones over which you had little to no control. The ones that could feature anything from Pavement...
...High Fidelity?? might have worked as a jukebox musical, like “Smokey Joe’s Café” or “Footloose,” in which popular tunes from the movie were sung by actors on stage. It might even have worked with a heavy dash of irony, in the vein of “Urinetown” or “Avenue Q,” self-conscious about the ridiculousness of musical theater. But instead, the minds behind “High Fidelity?? attempt to make Hornby?...
...High Fidelity?? will open on Broadway next month if it receives enough acclaim from the Boston audience. One can only hope that Generation Yers who lost their indie music (or actual) virginity because of the movie, as well as anyone with an ear for musical theater, will protest this horrible wrong...