Ground Hog Day analysis | A Lesson In Happiness
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2024
- My video essay analysis of the film Ground Hog Day, looking at the character Phil Conners (Bill Murray) and his transformation from a sacarstic, withdrawn newsreporter, to someone open, warm, and genuinely happy. In terms of analysis and meaning, what can we learn from Phil's story beyond just film theory talk? What philosophy can it teach us?
This is a reupload, which was originally uploaded on the 24th of December 2019.
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this channel is a goldmine; so glad I discovered this. for next christmas, please do a video on it's a wonderful life!!
Good shout. I've never even seen it yet
@@mylittlethoughttree One of my favorite movies!
electricmohair great idea I would love to see that.
@@mylittlethoughttree I think you'd really like it. It's a great movie.
Definitely it's a wonderful life, I'd love to know your take. If you did a deep dive of some kind you'd make so very many new friends, you have no idea.
Scrooged nudges Frank in the Right direction: Groundhog Day drags Phil kicking and Screaming
Some people aren't as easily swayed from their bitter ways.
*Scrooged. Bill was in Scrooged.
"Groundhog Day" 1993
A man who learned so much.
vs.
"The Man who Knew too Little" 1997
A man mistook for someone else.
Murray is a true anti thesis actor
Finally, a non purgatory related analysis video. This is my favorite movie of all time. It was tradition in my family to watch this movie every groundhog day, but we watched it 3 or 4 times a year. So, ive seen it dozens of times and it has loads of sentimental memories attached to it for me.
Aaaand, yeah, you really really nailed what the movie is all about. It's all about living life in the moment and appreciating it for what it is. Appreciating people for who they are. Getting out of your own head so you can experience some goddamn happiness. Thanks man, you earned my sub and deserve so much more.
Just a re-upload of an old video today, I'm afraid. I've been reuploading old videos that have copyright claims on them in the hopes that one day I'll be able to monetize my channel. I didn't quite finish editing the proper video I planned for today, so here's this instead. To be fair, I did already release two other videos this week, so you can't blame me, right?
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Little late to the party but you might check out Palm Springs as well. It’s basically a modern take on Groundhog Day. Virtually the same core plot but updated and with new twists. @My Little Thought Tree
Polka. The music was polka. The Pennsylvania Polka specifically, I believe.
i like how he assumes groundhog day is a film specific made up holiday to parody christmas and not a totally real thing and a totally real town
To be Honest, for a "Counselor" it amazes me how often he misreads movies and characters.
@@MrParkerman6 how so?
I didn't know it was a real thing either lol
@@MrParkerman6 yeah i thought his analysis was really on point and even with this mistake I think it's pretty insightful, like I grew up with groundhog day (the day) and just took it for granted with the film, but it's a pretty interesting point that this movie is essentially a Christmas Carol but it uses groundhog day to kind of remove ourselves from any preconceived notions values and nostalgia we might have vested in the day itself to make it more purely about how the character interacts with other people and the world
Lol Philly native here. That’s hilarious
Oh goodness, the fact that Phil and the groundhog have the same name never registered before. It's probably cuz I've grown up hearing the full name of the groundhog and just don't mentally break the name apart. It's like a title, all the groundhogs are named that, always has been and all that
Did you not notice they were both named for BILL Murray also???
16:50 A very philosophical & well thought out conclusion NOT only for this movie, but to all our lifes. Go with the flow & dont overexaggerate your own "meaning of life". Be able to become happy
Thanks for still being here man 😊
Always a pleasure, have to make up for not seeing more, cause i got intertwined in a David-Lynch-a-thon.. but i will watch more of your quality-stuff, digest & enjoy it. Keep on doing for your own pleasure as well!
"Purgatory" is such a common theory ppl make up for so many movies and TV shows and honestly it's just lazy. Good film makers are often trying to teach us something.
Why does it have to be a learning experience. Lots of artists create things or the sake of showing how they see things or to make the audience feel something.
Agreed!
The much more insightful perspective is that the concept of purgatory developed because of the common human experience of feeling stuck and feeling things are repetitive and meaningless.
And getting dialectical with these ideas may be even more insightful....
As ‘character growth’ is such a common feature of movies, I’d say they tend to be more about the psychology of humans rather than fantastic elements used to demonstrate it.
Film interpretation is an opinion, and art is said to be in the eye of the beholder, so IMHO what really matters is what the movie says to you, how it makes you feel & think.
I don’t believe in purgatory or any of the life after death stories, so I prefer to see it as the lessons we learn while we are still able to use them for a better life.
@@Parhelion2 Making the audience feel something is simply a tool used to deliver a message or theme, which is why we tell stories. If someone is trying to tell story just to get the viewers emotionally worked up then they aren't telling the story for themselves, but rather for other people, which a writer should never do. Storytelling is self expression, and in order to make the audience see things your way you have to teach them. Therefore, art is tied to a learning experience AKA character arc, and when an audience watches a movie, they're the one's being changed by the arc.
@@scrabdusanproductions2104 But one of the messages you want to communicate, sometimes, *is* a particular feeling, and there are as many complex stories which come across as empty sophistry (Tenet, for instance) as there are simple stories which come across as empty emotion. If you look at something like Oldboy, for all the narrative twists and turns, what you get at the end is a mixture of horror, pity, helplessness, compassion, awe - it's cathartic in the way a Greek tragedy was cathartic, and we come away from the film having "learned" something, but in an emotional rather than an intellectual sense.
I feel personally attacked by the insights in this video
"Intelligent people are only unhappy when they don't have the wisdom to match their intelligence"
not a bad quote if you replace that only with an often
NO no, I like that you did the over all story because the over all story is important not just a specific scene and you really captured the essence of the film and what it really truly means. If you wanna go really deep and add some existentialism to the analysis,try the film "what dreams may come" And please ignore all the main stream reviews by those that don't understand.
As someone who is generally unhappy with where his life stands, I really appreciate your insight on this one. So thanks for giving me a different perspective to consider.
Wow, very impressive that you had such a great analysis in such a short time. I adore this film and it always has a way of popping up in my mind and love to hear other people talk about it.
Groundhog's Day is one of my all-time favorite movies (right up there with The Princess Bride), and I think this is the best analysis of this movie I've ever heard. I agreed with everything you said, and I was thrilled you got this movie so well! I often feel stuck in a loop myself, but I try to take joy in the little things. I'd love to be stuck in a real time loop like that so I could learn piano and foreign languages and all the stuff I've never taken the time to learn (though honestly, I do enjoy just tinkering, lol). Thank you for this review! It made me really happy. :)
When he said groundhogs day is a local tradition, i wonder if he meant to the city ir to the US. Because the whole country keeps track if it
Good point actually, yeah. I hadn't thought of that
Also Canada has Groundhog Day. Wiarton Willy predicts the weather locally.
@@akuiper2654 Which is very silly, because Canada ALWAYS gets six more weeks of winter. Spring is only teased in mid-March and then fully arrives sometime in April.
I wanted to let you know I have really loved your content and the quality of your content. I didnt realize you only had 30k subs until 6 videos in. You make some 1 million sub quality videos!
Bro, this take on this movie the best take I've ever heard.
Thankyou! 😅
13:21 I love this part so much!!!! It's so real and you which is why I subscribed. Good to see you let loose and not sound scripted at all. The fact you watched this for the first time and just threw out this video on commenter's whim is really something I hope you continue
This analysis changed the way I look at life and friendship a bit.
Alright, when I hear people say that, I always think "they must be lying, this just went to top because it's inspiring and relatable."
But now I realise that I might have more fun hanging out with my classmates more than I used to (not that I didn't use to or anything) despite their "childish humor".
This has been pointed out before to me, but I never truly "heard" it, because they were half-ridiculing me while saying it, and that's not a very good way to teach someone a lesson in my opinion.
2 yrs late but to write this script same day as watching is truly something to be proud of! Thank you for making this 😁
Well I just binged your videos for the last 6 hrs...I guess you have earned my sub. Very well done
Three weeks later, I find myself in the same situation...
Another nice analysis video! (Even if it's been around for a while and I just watched it now.) I really like the message and idea that I heard here and sometimes in other places, the message that "Happiness lies in the moment. Cherish it."
Also, I scrolled through the other messages and I don't think anyone mentioned this, so I'll jump at this opportunity to help out! The name of the person you got the topic idea from (at the very beginning of the video) is written in Japanese. スクリーンウォッチャー in roman letters is ”SukuriinUocchaa". It is just an approximation of the english word(s) "ScreenWatcher". I hope this means one less unanswered question in your life!
Seeing Bill Murray makes me think you could break down “What About Bob?”
Nice videos!
I'm a retired mental health and social worker. I genuinely care about people. But I never feel connected to anyone and I'm happiest when I'm alone and having a day with only minor symptoms of my chronic pain and illness and can just quietly make things.
Phil perceives these people as weak, but finds out that kindness and happiness are choices, and is the real strength.
You could also review Christmas story (disregard if you already did it and I'm an idoit). Could talk about how Ralphie processes things as a child, at how as an adult narrating himself shows how he's grown and processed events of the movie (especially how he trys to be subtle with the BB gun ad and when he snaps and beats the bully and crys after at what he did). How his brother is struggling with an over loving mother. How the mom is dealing with having to accept her youngest is growing past what she wants and learning to let him grow. How all of them feel the stress of the holidays and how they react (looking at you leg lamp).
The music style is 'Polka'
And the song is "The Pennsylvania Polka". There are a lot of people with German and Polish ancestry in PA, especially the more rural areas, so polka was big for a long time. I grew up near Scranton, PA and the local PBS station would have a weekly polka dance show that used "The Pennsylvania Polka" as its theme song.
I think the choice of song is partly because the movie is set in small-town PA, partly because the song is kitschy, just like Groundhog Day (the holiday), and partly because you can either feel annoyed by it or you can give in to the silliness and have fun.
@@lisarugh6014 Scranton, isn't that the town where Kevin's mom in "Home alone" gets stranded and picked up by John Candy's Polka band?
Looking foward to the next video you post, this is a wonderful analysis!
What a nugget of a channel you've got here. I want to extend my thanks to the UA-cam algorithm for bringing me here through Big Joel's Dr. Phil video. I'm genuinely getting a lot out of your videos. Keep it up!
Thanks! 😊
One of my favorite movies of all time. Thanks!
Very good analysis of how we let our lives become repetitive and then wonder how we got stuck in the rut. He's not in Hell or Purgatory except by his own making. Instead of seeing the positive, he sees every interaction as a negative, so it makes him miserable. A bit of Rational Emotive Therapy was what he needed and he gets it vicariously through the woman he desires.
Yeah, I don't buy the whole "Phil's dead and in purgatory" theory.
Phil's sad and in Punxsutawney.
@@MCVessels Yep.
Mate these videos are really good, to manage get people to watch 20mins these days means quality content
I don't know why, but this essay made me cry.
Stop referring to openness and connection as "selflessness". His "self" was miserable and unhappy when he was disconnected. In the end, his "self" became happy. He finally did something good for his "self".
One of my favorite films,
And you just made it a bit better!
Very cool how you explained it!
My little thought tree... I like you.
The best video I’ve seen from you so far was the ones on Good will hunting. But your attitude and train of thought on this movie was a genuine pleasure to listen to.
Thankyou! 😊
i love your channel, i've spent the past week or so watching a chunk of your vids and i've just subscribed. really really liked this analysis. it seems obvious now after watching it of course but i loved the perspective you provided; its like a movie about radical acceptance. he comes to terms with his situation, makes peace with it, and moves on from there. i haven't seen this movie in years and of course others have made some good points about phil still being kind of selfish in his motivations with rita, but by the end of the movie he does seem to have genuinely connected with her and honestly cares about her. its just refreshing to see someone feeling so isolated and miserable in his own way, moving toward having fun and feeling connected. sorry for not really adding to the discussion lol im just reflecting. excited to see more from you!
Well analyzed. Especially the part everyone can relate to:
Appreciate life as is it, or it will become like groundhog days, repetitive and dead.
One point I don’t totally agree is how intelligent people and loneliness works. In this movie’s case, it works, since the protagonist is a angry man that sees him above everyone else. But In other cases, it won’t actually be that way.
This is my favorite movie. I got so excited when I saw this video! Merry Christmas!
The setting is a real life town in Pennsylvania. Groundhog day is recognized across the USA. It is seeing if spring will come early or if there will be 6 more weeks of winter. The towns people are typical USA small town folks and he is a big time weather man...hence the clouds in the beginning. The music is similar to polka and German music. German culture is very much a part of Pennsylvania.
Respect for making such a good analysis in such a short time
I think the clouds represent both the passage of time, but also the idea of will he/wont he see a shadow is interesting (kinda Jungian) as Phil explores his shadow side in this endless experience.
I saw you do Nolan's Batman. I'd LOVE to watch you talk through The Prestige.
Love this review. Watched the movie recently and living the same day over and over again, it's much like living in lockdown and under measures.
The film was inspiring on how to improve these constantly repeating days.
Have always loved that movie and I loved this analysis too.
I left a longish comment on here earlier today, but it's gone now. I hope I didn't say something rude - that wasn't my intention. I only meant to suggest looking at A Room with a View, a film with similar themes to Groundhog Day, but a very different approach.
No, youtube seems to do that to comments sometimes, other people have said the same in the past. I don't know if it's a glitch or youtube decides they're spam or what. If it thinks it's spam, it might appear in the "comments to review" section I get on my channel, but there's nothing there at the moment
Playing the piano does make Phil happy, but also Rita listed playing an instrument, as a quality her perfect guy would have.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s not stuck on the purgatory story. That never rang true to me. Yet, that is an interesting take I had not fully considered: the greater view on life; we put ourselves in our Groundhog Day, and it isn’t until we not just accept the repetition of life, but but make it canvas of our own creation, that’s when we end the “so-called” cycle. It seems one aspect toward his “graduation” from GHD is when he stopped trying to convince Rita of his “entrapment.” It seems that’s when he was full in-no more convincing anyone and just accept it. Is that similar to addiction recovery? Before you make real change, you have to accept your real condition?
When you say 'fuck' it's shocking like hearing a teacher say it in class lol
10:14 the car door and music timing omg! 👌🏽
I also didnt realize how sad this movie was
That was awesome dude I cried !!! Great essay
FYI, groundhog day is a nationwide thing in America. Yes the groundhog is in Punxsutawney, but they've always announced the results nationally long before this movie existed. Its marked on every calendar I've ever seen.
I haven’t seen the original upload so perhaps someone has pointed this out before, but consider Phil throwing cards into a hat as meditation. Quiet, alone, repetitive. Phil is the Buddhist monk. He’s coming to acceptance. From there he can bring a fuller self to every moment over and over again even if it’s the same and he has no agency, because he isn’t longing for it to be otherwise anymore. In a Buddhist perspective, only once he stops longing for something else does the “something else” come to him (Rita; tomorrow; a fulfilled happy life presumably).
Beautifully put. I imagine a lot of Buddhist teaching could be told through the example of this film
@@mylittlethoughttree Take a look at "The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons From A Mythical Man". It's a documentary, available on Netflix, about Murray and all the crazy stories that have recently cropped up involving him. Toward the end they address the Buddhist philosophy in his personal actions and how he seems to address life, as well as how this has made it into quite a few of his movies over the years.
This is one o those movies I have some of the sweetest and potent emotions for 💯
You handled this video just right. Great video!
Rita did say her perfect man would play an instrument, which gives Phil a reason to learn the piano.
SO True!!! I loved your analysis!
Hey hey! I like the point you make at 19:30, with the time loop ending after he's escaped his hell, definitely a parallel to how we live our own lives.
Didn't really think of it that way until you said 'that's not a coincidence'. Haven't seen the movie yet but I'll have to give it a watch :)
Keep up with videos
This was pretty brilliant! Thanks mate!
Thanks for the video and insights
I need to hear this once in a while:)
Ironicly there is a movie starring Bill Murray called 'Scrooged' that is in fact a modern take on 'a Christmas Carol.'
I figured someone would catch it first
Funny how you compared this to the xmas carol, bill murray also made a modern take of the book, called scrooged.
I did not know that, that's pretty interesting, thankyou
What a great movie too. All the characters are amazing.
@@mylittlethoughttree Yeah, Scrooged is one of my favorite Christmas movies and by far my favorite retelling of A Christmas Carol. It is Bill Murray at his best.
Thinking about it now, if not a video on Scrooged, what about a video about Christmas movies generally and what each one brings to the table. But be sure to go watch some of the old ones too, Miracle On 34th Street, It's A Wonderful Life, and that sort of thing. What the old ones emphasize compared to more contemporary one. Just a thought.
Excellent! Thank you. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I hope you might consider creating a video of my other favorite, “The World According to Garp”. Thank you!
Yes, yes, yes! Scene-by-scene for this movie, please!!!
I should really see this movie! I feel like I could stand to learn more from this film, as much as I hate to admit it.
Love this movie, it's like an old wine, it gets better in time 🍷
"Groundhog day is a local holiday..."
Boy do I have news for you
I would like to see you do a video analysis of Scrooged (1988).
How to get a cynical intervert to change.
1) bore the everlasting stuffing out of them.
2) berate them with happy extroverts.
3) make them feel like nothing they do matters.
Am I the only one getting Stockholm syndrome from this?
Lol. Well, we know Phil is an extrovert though because he doesn't hide himself away from the world after this starts, as any good introvert would do. If I realized I was in a time loop, you'd probably see me holed up in the local library for the first 100 years or so until I'd read every book in the place. Then I might venture out. But then again, that'd make me too happy and I'd end up breaking the loop in a day or two. :)
@@xzonia1 A very exaggerated and frankly all too common view on the idea of being introverted. I really can't tell if that was intentional for the purpose of a joke.
But *is* anyone in the film trying to get Phil to change? And has he become less of an introvert/intervert by the end? I thought it was more that he comes to feel, of his own accord, that if he's not a part of something larger than himself - be that a local community, a loving relationship or some kind of abstract member's club of humanity - his actions change nothing. Different people react to existential solitude in different ways, though, and ymmv. (For what it's worth I like the movie a lot more these days than when I saw it 20 years ago. Who knows what I'll think in another 20.)
@MCVessels
No, there is no "person" making him change. Whatever phenomenon forcing him to relive the same day over is the antagonist.
I haven't seen the movie in years but from what I remember he was fine being who he was. A bit of an ass but not to completely bully someone. He doesn't like dealing with people unexpectedly but to his colleagues he was fine. Still sarcastic but fine. That's just the kind of person he is. But here comes the unerverse outta nowhere for no reason forcing him to change for "the better". I could understand if he was a bad person. I could understand if one of his quips made someone fell bad. I could understand if he wanted something more (before the loops). He was completely content being who he was without harming anyone. But the unerverse says "no, be more" for absolutely no reason.
@@0o0Zero0o0 I mean, I guess that outside of films a lot of stuff does happen for absolutely no reason, but outside of films there aren't any ghost-busting agencies either so that's not really the point. The way I saw it, it wasn't even the fact of being stuck in one day which caused Phil's personality to shift: it was that for him, time kept passing and he couldn't die. By the end of the movie who knows how many lifetimes he's lived, and his initial way of living wasn't enough to sustain him for the course of that existence. The one-day loop was a way of compressing an awful lot of experience into one time and one place so that it could fit into a film. In a way, the question is - in life, we have some time to live in and we have some agency to do what we want while we're alive. If a person is burdened with an infinite amount of time and a near-infinite amount of agency, how do they survive? What shape do they fall into in order to cope with that? I don't think Phil did anything particularly bad to deserve this - it's almost more of a castaway situation, where he finds himself trapped in this place and just has to find a way to live.
Yes please do a part two! =)
Wow. All this time I was thinking Christmas was about the birth of Christ. I liked the insights in this anyway as well as your character breakdowns in The Breakfast Club so I subscribed. I am looking forward to your Brian video.
Nah Christmas is about presents, Easter is about chocolate, and lent is about pancakes 😆
I thought it was based on Saturnalia.
Interesting that the photo of the Buddhist monk you chose was that of Mathieu Ricard, the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama.
Thanx for this excellent analysis of a DIVINE COMEDY . . . Peace & love from FRANCE + RUSSIA
Does the theory work in reverse? You put yourself down so you're below everyone, and that leaves you feeling sad and lonely like Bill's chatacter?
Are we talking literal brass or just a brassy kind of feel? Because neither of those songs has a brass instrument; one is a lite blues and the other is accordian-based polka. The Pennsylvania Polka, in fact.
This is very insightful on a quite old movie, a good movie nonetheless
Groundhogs Day is February 2. It is not a Christmas film.
Love your channel, think you'd ever do an analysis of Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler?
One of the last comment made in the video reminds me of the myth of Sisyphus essay written by Camus.
This film enough good analysis from the ones making it. You can handle understand this guy.
Awesome!
love your videos, will you be doing one on Claire? (breakfast club)
I will indeed. I don't know when yet but I will indeed 😄
@@mylittlethoughttree yay :) no rush
Brass bands only have an association with the ridiculous since Python
You will also like the Japanese film ‘Ikiru’ - honestly!
in the original story , Phil was stuck there for decades. The movie glosses over that aspect.
I know no one else can relate to this but I find it funny I just watched some what would you do videos and the first first thing said here is what would you do 😂.
What can we learn from Phil? Nothing, on one has eternity to learn without consequences and practice and make one perfect day. Life is messy and unexpected.
Ah damn dude I thought this would be like a part 2 of the Groundhog Day analysis and I got really excited.😂 Still great work you’re putting into these videos and I’m looking forward to whatever’s next, The Breakfast Club and the possibility of a Sopranos one in particular. Did you get a chance to watch the last episodes somehow?
I haven't yet, but I have written a script for like a general video about the sopranos. Gonna sort of trial that then, if people are interested maybe do some more in depth analysis of more specific things in the show
My Little Thought Tree Awesome. :)
@@maxeyre2024 Factsss 💯
I might be wrong but if i remember correctly Harold Ramis borrowed the timeloop idea from The twilight Zone episode "Shadow Play" where a convict is stuck in a loop sentenced to death and killed over and over... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Play_(The_Twilight_Zone,_1959) If you wanna se a modern adaptation se Season 2 episode 2 of Black Mirror "White Bear", I wont spoil it...... :-)
In the original script writing, Phil was stuck in a loop because a curse was placed on him by a modern day witch. Thankfully, Harold Ramos had the good sense to cut that from the story because, well ... that’s just fucking dumb.
Part of the brilliance of the movie is that we don’t know why Phil is stuck in his loop and therefore we have no clue about what he needs to do to break out of it.
It makes the resolution of the story more of a “Ah, now I get it” moment.
Wrong! We do know why. It repeats cuz of The Alarm Clock.
MrParkerman6 Alarm clocks are definitely evil
3:20 -- RE: Groundhog Day Parallelling Christmas; *YES,* but not at all. Allow me to explain.
In the past, depending on what part of the planet humans lived on, there were many different cultural ideas about what THE SEASONS were or are. Some cultures use 4 divisions; *others* use 3 or 6. The 3-season year is where and how Groundhog Day relates to Christmas.
*FIRST,* Suppose that the Year starts on February 2nd. Adding 125 days to that gets us to Early June; *MIDSUMMER* is June 21, not the beginning of Summer at all. And, Midsummer relates to Hallowe'en, which is 50 days before the Winter Solstice, ie. half a year later. Early October is when the Third Season starts.
I have a handy-dandy reference image for this, which uses 5-day weeks instead of 7... notice how Summer Solstice is 27 weeks of 5 days into the year, and Hallowe'en is 54 weeks of 5 days? That's twice as long. :P
imgur.com/gallery/rG1wrLt
ALSO -- Season A, 125 days; Season B, 120 days; Season C, 120 days.
AND ALSO -- RE: metaphors and Groundhog Day; if you ask me, the problem of the film could have been equally as well illustrated by February 29th as February 2nd, *except* Groundhog Day happens every year. *BUT* isn't one day as good as another?? Or, in other words, Human Drama and Cultural Practices are illusions, and *SLEEPING* is what separates one day from the next. "It Is All One Long Day," is very close to the actual terrible psychological truth, and this film goes out of its way to set-up a Not Normal reality which lends itself to interpretations such as Limbo. It is Perverted to have One Long Day where it all resets, and the "normal" frustrations and disappointments of life occur every 24 hours.
1:18 ... Punxsutawney Population 6,782 and Phil knows everyone, that shows how long he's been there.
Daniel Coetzer is a real one
Groundhog day is a real thing.
Buddhist monks shouldn't be happy or unhappy. Right?
whats never mentioned is that its groundhog day for everyone else too, its just that they lose their memory of it
Shit man...I think you just gave me some insight into my own life...
Lesson of the movie accept your fate be happy help others
I can't believe you took soo damn long to watch this great film!😂