Phil is a professional man, a successful person in the eyes of ordinary people, he is cynical about life, but an opportunity to go out to report completely changed him.
The highlight of this film is that it makes the audience believe that time is set in an infinite loop on a certain day. With the change (or maturity) of Phil, the audience slowly realized the essence of life and the true meaning of life from an ordinary person like Phil (of course, it depends on understanding).
In the first stage,
Phil suddenly found that everything was repeating the previous day after he was stranded in the local area by a blizzard after finishing his work, and only he remembered all this. So he changed from losing his freshness in life to having to use this rule to play well.
It can be said that Phil was forced to be liberated from ideology and had the ability to think independently.
In the second stage,
Phil began to use this law to pursue Rita, but he finally discovered that he could not do whatever he wanted by mastering this law. (Recognizing that Rita is not an ordinary woman—the movie is fixed, there is nothing to say.)
Phil found that the brain can only solve general problems, and his highest pursuit (at the time when he went to bed with Rita became the highest pursuit due to repeated failures) It cannot be solved by the brain. In fact, logic, memory and performance cannot improve the quality of your life.
In the third stage,
Phil began to pay attention to the needs of others and the beauty of his inner life experience, and tried to do his best.
When the satisfaction of desires and the expected realization of external established goals become meaningless, Phil begins to seek inner life experience, which includes truly feeling the things around him and the wishes and needs of others.
In the fourth stage,
when he did his best to do his best, Groundhog Day really ended. Rita appeared next to him early in the morning, and life will continue, but he will not repeat every day as boringly as before. Because in the repetition, he learned how to live and how to feel the existence of himself.
When Phil existed because of the needs of others, he realized the true existence of his life. This existence was not instilled in him since he was a child. To him, they are all brand new, and they are all valuable and meaningful.
You may think that any person will become that perfect after these four stages, but this is just a movie, which is impossible in life. So after seeing the movie, we still repeat yesterday.
But who is taking away our right to change ourselves? Who is preventing this from becoming better? Only life itself.
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(The content of Buddhism is involved below, if you are not interested, you can ignore it)
From the point of view of Buddhism, such a film is undoubtedly a worldly and truthful one.
Phil's special situation is like gaining fate, knowing the cause and effect of the past life, and looking at it calmly. At this time, the delusions and anger in the heart became meaningless, because everything happened like this, not beyond his expectation and not his design.
For ordinary people, life is from the past to the present, from the present to the future, but at this time Phil realized that it never came to the past, but all this is still real, even more real than the previous way. The enlightenment of the three-time Buddha is that the past, present, and future exist at the same time.
In such a situation of simply facing life away from time, we will really think and experience it seriously, because everything will be restored to its original appearance due to your stopping, Phil will never think that Rita is beautiful , To feel that she is the most considerate and kind-hearted among the people he knows, these are all life factors of Rita, and we rarely experience other life factors of this or that in our lives, even if it is The person we are most familiar with, we are very indifferent, we only classify or classify people, and our identification only stays at a conceptual level, we don’t know what he or she has experienced, how to become like this, just like Phil at the beginning of the movie will not know Phil at the end of the movie.
He changed, how did he change? The practice method of the Taoist Perfection can be explained. No matter what job you do, no matter you are rich or poor, no matter your status is high or low, you must respect life, respect every life, and every one that appears in your Dharma Realm. Life, the realm of law is not the entire universe. In the universe of scientists, life is nothing more than some substances with neurological functions. Your law realm is different from the realm of any life, but they are blended and they can not interfere with each other, even Through your efforts, you can make the realm of life that blends with you better; you have to care about humanity. When people—like Phil at the beginning of the movie, he understands the laws that happen to him, his performance is very lack of humanity. Everyone has become a tool for his entertainment, he will not show human touch in them, he will deceive them and play with them. But when Rita made him realize that what he was facing was a living person, he slowly discovered that such life could be seen everywhere, and they could feel what he could feel. He began to care about humanity and his own life. Human nature, in the process of helping others, let people grow up and make their own lives more mature. This maturity is not catalyzed by knowledge, property, or status. It looks mature. It is an inner satisfaction and a kind of magnanimity. .
The stagnation of time allows us to calm down and return to the origin of the Three Treasures, reorganize our mentality, and start the course of life again.
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