What would you do if you were stuck in an eternal 24 hour time loop?
Would you freak out? Phil Connors does that.
Would you use it to take advantage of people? Phil does that.
Would you get depressed and try to kill yourself? Phil does that too.
Would you start to help people and improve yourself? Phil ends up doing that.
Phil Connors has the most intriguing character arc I've ever seen. He's a Scrooge character, but the story does so much more than just scaring him into virtue. He goes through many stages before he reaches the best version of himself.
And thats what's so inspiring about this film. Phil wakes up each day with exactly the same possibilities, and only his mindset decides whether his day ends in failure or success. He can choose to hate the town and his job and become miserable, or engage in them and become happy.
Now most of us don't have the luxury (or curse) of getting the chance to improve while the rest of the world is put on hold. How wonderful it would be to be essentially a thousands of year old, all-knowing demigod among men. But still, life's shortness is just an extra motivation to make our best out of it.
I believe Groundhod Day carries an extremely important life lesson, while being very cleverly written and full of good oneliners.
Would you freak out? Phil Connors does that.
Would you use it to take advantage of people? Phil does that.
Would you get depressed and try to kill yourself? Phil does that too.
Would you start to help people and improve yourself? Phil ends up doing that.
Phil Connors has the most intriguing character arc I've ever seen. He's a Scrooge character, but the story does so much more than just scaring him into virtue. He goes through many stages before he reaches the best version of himself.
And thats what's so inspiring about this film. Phil wakes up each day with exactly the same possibilities, and only his mindset decides whether his day ends in failure or success. He can choose to hate the town and his job and become miserable, or engage in them and become happy.
Now most of us don't have the luxury (or curse) of getting the chance to improve while the rest of the world is put on hold. How wonderful it would be to be essentially a thousands of year old, all-knowing demigod among men. But still, life's shortness is just an extra motivation to make our best out of it.
I believe Groundhod Day carries an extremely important life lesson, while being very cleverly written and full of good oneliners.