In class on Monday, we'll have our final discussion of Groundhog Day. Please post a comment in response to the following on THIS blog: What relevance, if any, does the film have to your life (not necessarily in a religious fashion)? Does it have a lesson you could apply?
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I think that this movie has a lot of relevance to my life. I think that this whole movie can be looked at as a metaphor. This metaphor of being stuck or trapped, which is how I feel a lot of times. I think that This by being stuck in one day it teaches Phil that he needs to change who he is. This applies to my life by there are places or people you get stuck on for too long, when you should really change how you act. Sometimes it takes being stuck in the same situation over and over again to realize that something needs to be changed for the better. It is this message that sometimes people don't realize that they are stuck in one place and need to change, that applies to life.
Groundhogs day might have a metaphor in there but I'm going to stick with the feeling of repition. When I thought getting at the highschool there was going
to be new and fantastic things that would completely seperate itself from the middleschool.
I was wrong.
It feels like the exact same day over and over with a few exceptions, a feeling much associated with middleschool, although I am definently not as paranoid and angry as Phil was throughout the film. I feel that this movie might have symbolism but the most important topic I feel that the film is trying to get across is irony, Phil hates this town, Punxatawney(?) and like a cruel joke he is forced to live the same day over and over, deja vu.
This film kinda does relate to my life. I find that when im mean to people more bad stuff seems to happen and my day dosent go as well. The lesson that i could apply to my life is that life every day to your fullest and be the kinda of person that others can rely on for help and encouragement, the kind of person that other people want to be around...i feel like i did this wrong but whatever
This film has some sort of relevance to my life. At times I feel selfish and as if i am taking days for granted. That is how Phil acted and it got him stuck reliving the same day over and over which taught him a very important lesson. Other times I feel kind of stuck, like my days are so repetitive and I feel like nothing is every changing. I feel like if i do feel like my life is repetitive that I either need to appreciate the opportunities that arise and i need to learn to be used to what my days consist of, or I need to change something for the better. That was the situation Phil found himself in and sometimes I feel the same way.
I think this movie has some relevance in my life. Sometimes I'm not as nice as I should be to people and this is similar to Phil in the first part of the film. But some of the time I can be the changed Phil, or the nicer one. I would be nice all of the time to everyone if it meant not being stuck in the same day, unless I was just getting better with Reed Boltman over and over the same day.
This film has little relevance to my life. Why? Well not everyday do i experience the same exact day over and over. Everyday i go out and do something differnt and every one else is too. Overall this film has no relvance to my life! If you look at it from a deeper perspective it has some relevance. Every day we are faced with choices, right or wrong. I think this movie is trying to portray the message of making the right choices to life. It relates to my life because it reminds me a lot of the message i hear at church.
well i don't really know.. i learned to not be dick to people, but i already knew that.. and i guess its sort of like karma when u do something its gonna come back at ya.. good movie thought, i like the whole wake up everyday and do what u want theme..
When watching this film i wasn't necessarily thinking that this is me, this is exactly what my life is like, but after discussing Groundhog Day in class i began to realize how the element of change does relate in a large part to my past. Over the summer i was forced into realizing things in my life that needed to change. I decided to change those things and in doing so i felt a sense of freedom that i had been missing for a very long time. The weeks went on, though, and eventually i went back to my old ways and lost the freedom again. I feel like this directly relates to Phil in how he was literally forced into realizing what he was doing wrong and only in changing his ways was he freed from Groundhog Day. In the end he says "Maybe we'll rent" which relates to me eventually returning to my old ways. I feel that his new found freedom will eventually fade, maybe not completely, but slowly he will return to the old Phil again. That is just one example of how i have lived out Groundhog Day : )
Although I really didn't like Groundhog's Day, I guess this movie does have some relevance to my life. There are many occasions in which I wish I had another chance to have a redo for the day. I know there's been plenty of days where I am just in a bad mood. Because of this I end up saying the wrong thing and just acting like a jerk. While I may never have had a redo on a day, I guess I have changed who I am because of these things I do sometimes. I'd have to say the most relevant thing in Groundhog's Day as far as dealing with my life is change.
I can relate my life to Groundhog Day because I think that sometimes I wonder about decisions and choices I didn't make and possible outcomes that could have occured.. or the road not taken. I think that's what the saying is.
I think that "Groundhog Day" has some relevance in my life. This is because sometimes I begin to think that everyday seems the same and that from day to day nothing changes, even though i'm not reliving the exact same day over and over again, it can seem like that when you go to school everyday and I do pretty much the same things in class. Phil is mean to people and its kind of karma that he then is stuck in this day and he can't get out until he is genuine and a good person and it can seem like that in real life if I'm being meant to someone and then something bad happens.
I have seen this movie about five times before and to be honest I went into this thinking I was going to hate it even more then before. Turns out i was wrong. I never really analyzed the film the way we did in class. I never caught on tothe lessons the movie is ment to teach you. I think everybody can relate to the lessons learned that Phil Connors learned. I think at some point people are forced to change wheather they like it or not. Sometimes going through the hard times(repeating your day in phils case) is what you have to do to learn something. You have to learn how to appriciate people and things around, it dosen't just happen. Also the fact that he feels locked in his own life is something alot of people can relate to no matter who you are. At some point if its the pressure from your family, friends, or school you can feel locked. I am glad we analyzed the movie like we did becuase i would of gone around hating the movie like i did before; but now it all makes sense!
Groundhog Day states the fact that perfection takes repetition. When Phil first discovers his situation, he becomes incredulous. He cannot believe what is happening to him, and it makes him angry. It eventually makes him go crazy, and spends every day trying to kill himself. However, when he realizes that he could spend the repeating days trying to accomplish something, (getting Rita), he works to improve his situation. He is driven to perform many selfless acts that change him as a person, and once he has become perfected, he is freed from the eternal day.
This movie has a big relation to one's life. Phil is forced to live the same miserable day over and over again. At first he hates it and tries to kill himself, but as he keeps living the day out he slowly becomes a better person with a more positive attitude on life. This kind of gives out a message to viewers showing them that people can change and they get second chances. It also teaches us to live everyday to the fullest and not to take things for granted. This movie sends out these great messages through Phil and helps us all with our own lives.
I'm not really sure if this film has much relevance to my life in particular... now anyway. In middle school days went by so slow.. and i did kind of feel like Phil - like i was reliving the same day. But once i got to highschool, it seems that the repetition has gone away. I have learned that days go by so fast now, and life goes by so fast and i shouldn't take it for granted. But there are definitley still times where i feel like i am trapped. And as much as i don't like to admit it, there are probably times where i manipulate things to turn out the way that i want.
yeah this movie has alot of relevence. we are all repeating the monotonous day of the school system day, waking up at the same time going to the same classes, going home to do work for those classes then repeating the cycle. The way i see it in this time i might as well be doing what i can to enjoy myself and growing as a person despite the forces of repetition holding me back to prepare for the day of release from this system into individuality and freedom of life and decisions. Also why not be pleasent to others and avoid hatred and anger when we are not repeating time, as we have a definite ammount of time, why waste it with hate. A penny for your thougts...i liked the movie because it made me think of what i would do with my only day and what i value enough to repeat.
The film has very little relevance for the most part, since as far as I know, I don't live the same day over and over again. That said, the ability to redo stuff is something everyone wishes they could do occasionally, and sometimes we all wish we could have a day over again, whether it be because of mistakes made, or because it was such a great day. It also does serve as a hyperbole of sorts for the sort of repetition that people feel every day in their lives.
I think this has a little relevance to my life. I sometimes find myself taking things for granted. Phil took a lot of things for granted and he was extremely rude to people. I think everyone--at one point or another-- needs to just take a breather and relax. Sometimes i need to just enjoy little things and not be so stressed out. I think this movie is very metaphorical because it represents everyday people being unable to get out of a "bad personality" that thye may have.
This movie has almost no relevance to my life. The only thing that me and Phil have in common is that we are both men, and we are both alive. Phil doesn't learn anything from his experience except how to further manipulate people. He tricks everyone and in the end I didn't feel like he was a better person. He tries to kill himself multiple times, tricks a woman into having sex with him, steals money from a bank, steals a car and kidnaps a groundhog. He is a tricky little guy, but he is no better at the end of the movie than at the begining. It takes him months to finaly figure out how to have one day to be nice to people, and even then he has to plan everything out. He tricks the whole town at the end and that poor woman is going to be stuck with him for the rest of his life.
Phil Connors is trapped in time, re-living the same day over and over again in "Groundhog Day". He wonders why it is happening, but cannot come up with an answer. This is relevant to my life in that, there are days that seem as if they're never ending, as if they're repeating over and over again, with the same issues, actions, and events as the day before. I find myself asking why things are happening the way they are, but to me, the answer is easy: Life doesn't change on its own, and if we want to see changes in it, we need to evaluate ourselves first, and then change our ways. This holds true in the movie as we see Phil go from being a self-centered and arrogant jerk, to being a respectful and caring person, resulting in the long awaited change to the day after Groundhog Day. This lesson about change is relevant in the real world to almost any situation.
I personally think that groundhog day does relate to my life. I go to school day after day and end up going to the same class at the same times and have the same lunch choices as I did the day before while sitting next to the exact same people. After school i come home and pretty much have the same schedule too. So, I do think groundhog day relates to my life. I think the lesson that can be applied is the fact that although you might be doing the same thing everyday, you should try to make the best of it.
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