High Fidelity reimagined - a very convenient plot device (ep. 8)

What if High Fidelity wasn’t a record-shop breakup comedy... but a near-future psychological thriller about a lonelyjanitor using an abandoned cloning machine to rebuild his love life one ethically catastrophic decision at a time?

In this episode of No Context Cinema Club, Rob attempts to rewrite High Fidelity having never seen it. All he has to work with is the title, a few suspiciously well-placed clues from Kev, and an alarming amount of confidence in a man called Tom Wynne.

Expect:

• A lonely janitor discovering a decommissioned cloning machine in a dusty robotics factory
• Domhnall Gleeson playing a man vain enough to clone himself for admin support
• A breakup plan so unhealthy it somehow gets worse every five minutes
• Clone-on-clone plotting and one extremely grim bag of hair
• A final twist that reveals this entire disaster may have been repeating itself all along

As Tom tries to clone his ex-girlfriend and run away into the Chicago rain, his increasingly selfish plan raises bigger questions about identity, memory, morality, and whether being dumped can ever justify becoming a low-rent sci-fi villain.

After Rob locks in his completely fabricated plot, Kev scores the chaos for coherence, entertainment, and originality.

Has Rob reinvented High Fidelity as a bleak cloning nightmare, or just built the world’s most self-absorbed breakup movie?

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