"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" Introspective, intelligent, and more than a little bit self-pitying. Love it or hate it, that's the perfect way to describe Rob Gordon, High Fidelity's main character. Throughout the film, he is consumed by his obsession with three things: music, the women in his life who have abandoned him, and his own misery. This line isn't just eloquent and pseudo-poignant, it's also a perfect window into the world that this character inhabits.