What if tomorrow is today?

Buddy 2021-10-13 13:05:28

If you wake up every morning, you find yourself in the same state, listening to the unchanging broadcast at a fixed time, seeing the same thing at an absolute moment, meeting the same people, and listening to them saying the same things to you... No matter how you change, these people and things will still appear meticulously in order. Especially, when you open your eyes the next morning, it is the same life, even if in your memory the day before, you have chosen to die...At this time, what should you do?

No one understands you, no one has the same feelings as you, you remember everything yesterday, but all the people around you don’t, they think you are crazy: you think you are repeating today! There is no tomorrow; tomorrow is today, always today. What does no tomorrow mean? There is no future, all your hard work today is in vain, and everything will return to the original point the next day; there is no change, your life is boring, because you know what will appear next minute, and you choose a different person Talk, but there is always a "today", you already know everyone. Such a day is scary, isn't it? In particular, the repetition is not a glamorous moment with beautiful scenery and a lover, but a day without flavor and characteristic.

This sounds like it is in the world of The Matrix. There is a problem with the procedure, and a certain set day is repeated continuously, and human beings have no right to change. Given this background, we probably can only choose to defeat the world of computer people in a limited day, repeatedly charging into battle, and killing the enemy in blood. Fortunately, today’s story is not that heavy. It happened in the small life of ordinary people. You laughed and thought about the master’s hard but fruitless actions. You understand his depression, sadness, happiness, and madness, because you don’t stop. Thinking about what you would do if it were you.

"Groundhog Day" (Groundhog Day) is such a relaxed but not superficial movie. The weather forecaster Phil goes to a small town to report on the traditional American Groundhog Day-February 2 every year. But unexpectedly, I found myself in a constant cycle in the early morning of the next day. Everyday is today, February 2nd... From the initial irritability and surprise, to crazy enjoyment, and then to depression, choose various methods to end life. , Life is still stubbornly joking with him, as if falling into an immortal curse, forcing to face the same things every day. Fortunately, Phil finally found his own pleasure. He went to read books, learn piano, learn ice sculpture, understand the difficulties of everyone in the town, and enthusiastically help them, and provide happiness to those around him as much as he can. On a certain "today", he won the respect of everyone in the town, and he also won true love. Thus, the curse disappeared and a happy life began.

It may sound clichéd, but in fact, the film is full of novelty everywhere. You will be surprised at so many choices in life, and you will be hijacked by Phil's various behaviors. conventional? I feel it at all. At the end, I am really happy for such a happy ending-because even you, as an audience, can't stand the torture of the same day by day.

If tomorrow or today, what would it look like? It’s not bad to think about it. It doesn’t matter what you do today. Anyway, there is no result. Just enjoy yourself, live a thousand kinds of life, and do things that you have never thought of in a lifetime. It’s just that if you have too much excitement, you will probably get bored. Even if you have sex with beautiful women every day, there is no new feeling anymore. There is no way to change the environment, so you still have to find a way to change yourself, enrich your heart, and bring happiness to others, so that you can feel fulfilled in such a positive life.

Haha, it sounds a bit like preaching. It's just that I have some feelings when I watched this film. I feel that it is teaching me how to live in a relaxed way: positive, optimistic, true, and courageous, letting go of myself and looking for change. These seem to be missing for me, who walks in the rectangular besieged city every day. At the end of the film, Phil has a deep impression: anything different is good. I think life is like this. To create happiness by yourself, every change is worthy of joy.

It's a very good film, and it's full of splendor.

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Extended Reading
  • Liam 2021-10-20 18:58:53

    Time will always freeze on a certain day. How much I envy you, how much I sympathize with you.

  • Kade 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    It is the most moving of its kind.

Groundhog Day quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Diner Patron: Just put that anywhere, pal! Yeah! Good save!

  • Rita: [Phil has described several people in the diner] What about me, Phil? Do you know me too?

    Phil: I know all about you. You like producing, but you hope for more than Channel 9 Pittsburgh.

    Rita: Well, everyone knows that!

    Phil: You like boats, but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains. There's a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof, and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone. You're a sucker for French poetry and rhinestones. You're very generous. You're kind to strangers and children, and when you stand in the snow you look like an angel.

    Rita: [in wonder] How are you doing this?

    Phil: I told you. I wake up every day, right here, right in Punxsutawney, and it's always February 2nd, and there's nothing I can do about it.