Posted on 02/02/2018 7:38:49 AM PST by harpygoddess
The correct answer is ONE DAY. That day kept repeating and he remembered his experience of it but then that day happened over again as if starting with a clean slate so no actual time elapsed other than the 24 hours of that ONE DAY.
He did. Do you recall how many times he killed himself? AND the Groundhog???
Interesting comments in here.
I haven't seen the movie in years but now that the ideas are flowing in this thread, what with the timing of events the political realm, the obvious theme jumps out:
The movie was a tikkun process that one one hand, took many days, years.
OTOH, it was only one day.
Timing is everything.
Psalm 90:4. For a thousand years in your sight are but like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night:
:: Punxsutawney serving as a metaphor for purgatory. ::
Where would that put Woodstock, Illinois on the “eternity scale”?
Hey, it could have been “Wildfire”...
Didn’t you post this same thread yesterday?
The question is not how much time passed from the external POV, it’s how much passed subjectively to him. Think of it as him being caught in a temporal bubble.
I always think of that line when I see this movie. It takes Murray's character thousands of days to get it right, but he finally learns from his mistakes and all the pain. Starting out as a shallow, egotistical, hedonistic boor, his character is finally molded into a decent human being.
Reminds me a bit of another Bill Murray movie. They could have done them together and called it "What About Groundhog Day?"
30 to 40 years seems about right. He went from an awful piano player to a great player.
I thought it was maybe hundreds of years.
He studied one day at a time to become a doctor.
He became a great jazz pianist.
He spent 6 months flipping cards into a hat.
He spent years learning how to ice sculpt.
He spent months or years trying to seduce the girl, getting one line closer to success at a time. Then that failed. It only succeeded when he started working on himself and didn’t try for the girl but to perfect himself.
He spent decades learning everything that happened in that town that day, learning everything about every inhabitant, he knew the number of steps to make to catch a kid falling out of a tree, change a tire, steal a bag of money, save the old wino’s life.
He spent months trying to kill himself.
He spent months or years learning French and French literature.
Yeah, it was at least a century.
LOL.
Yeah, but by the end, when he had perfected himself, he buys tons of insurance from Ned.
Would explain his stating he had God like status in that one day. He knew all, knew the consequences of every action he could take.
You have to watch it multiple times.
bump to watch later
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