When I watched Groundhog day for the first time years ago I was captivated by two things. Firstly the concept of being caught in a time loop and secondly Bill Murrays portrayal of the man caught in said loop.
In the years since I've always been fascinated by movies and TV shows featuring time loops and time paradoxes. In some cases movies have also used time as a mechanism to drive a psychological or supernatural point rather than a sci fi story and Groundhog Day is such a story.
Groundhog Day has no mechanism for time travel, there's no scientific device or porthole or rip in the spacetime continuum. He just lives through the same day over and over. Why?
In the end it turns out that the whole reason for him reliving the same day is for him to improve and make himself a better man in order to win the heart of an entitled, self obsessed, sanctimonious, judgemental woman who herself doesn't have to make an iota of self improvement herself.
Bill Murray pretty much carries this movie single handedly. There's no sci fi, no moral, no logic and no sense here.
Groundhog Day has aged, badly.
In the years since I've always been fascinated by movies and TV shows featuring time loops and time paradoxes. In some cases movies have also used time as a mechanism to drive a psychological or supernatural point rather than a sci fi story and Groundhog Day is such a story.
Groundhog Day has no mechanism for time travel, there's no scientific device or porthole or rip in the spacetime continuum. He just lives through the same day over and over. Why?
In the end it turns out that the whole reason for him reliving the same day is for him to improve and make himself a better man in order to win the heart of an entitled, self obsessed, sanctimonious, judgemental woman who herself doesn't have to make an iota of self improvement herself.
Bill Murray pretty much carries this movie single handedly. There's no sci fi, no moral, no logic and no sense here.
Groundhog Day has aged, badly.