I *HATE* movies with character narration and talking directly...
...to the audience.
They ALWAYS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh man. Good thing nobody's forcing you to watch this movie then!
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MovieChat Forums > High Fidelity (2000) Discussion > I *HATE* movies with character narration...
Dude you gave "Parker" with Jason Statham 5 stars very recently. A trash movie with a trash lead actor.
Your opinion is immediately without validity. Seriously wtf hahhahaha
The character of Rob breaks the fourth wall in the novel too. It's can be a great storytelling technique that allows for a lot of narration without drowning the story with voice over.
Not every movie does it well but if you've read the novel this movie gets it right. Rob breaks the fourth wall so much in the novel I don't see how they could have stayed faithful to the book without doing it in the movie.
I didn't mind the direct-to-audience narration but I have to say that I really can't stand the 'breaking the fourth wall' description because to me it implies that it's an innovation in film making when in reality it's just an extension of what you see in many theater dramas. Talking to the audience precedes the art of film making so in many respects all you're really seeing is a theater performance played out on film/video, and while I think many films succeed using this method it's really not "breaking" any walls, it's just taking short cuts, narratively speaking.
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shareAs usual, Barry, you are right...
Barry: Holy *beep* What the *beep* is that?
Dick: It's the new Belle and Sebastian...
Rob: It's a record we've been listening to and enjoying, Barry.
Barry: Well, that's unfortunate, because it sucks ass.
The movie was trying to capture the essence of the narration in the book. But perhaps the creators should have thought twice about their strategy. The movie still didn't convey all the idiosyncrasies of Rob, his mother and all of his female acquaintances we read about in the book, going all the way back to grade school. That probably isn't possible with any movie. Should the screenplay have been crafted with a different strategy that still succeeded on it's own merits without on screen narration? Perhaps. However Roger Ebert gave the movie a 100 rating, so clearly the movie found significant acceptance.
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