The lives of most ordinary people are monotonous repetitions: open your eyes every day, see the same people, and do the same things. In the monotonous repetition, a person is the same as a component on a machine, and only needs to do what he has to do according to his habit, and the day is over. If it is like this every day, every month and every month, nothing changes year after year, and it will be like this until the end of life, and it is understandable to be bored to despair.
The protagonist of the film is such a person. Tired of work and life, he wakes up one day and finds that his life has become exactly the same as that of yesterday. This is of course imagination. This is the expression of art. First of all, it comes from life: although his actual life was not exactly the same every day, for a person who is seriously tired of life, the emotion of boredom is the same; Life cannot be exactly the same every day, but we can use artistic techniques and rely on imagination to achieve this completely consistent repetition. This is where art is superior to life.
In this extreme life, the protagonist, as a person who was tired of life, initially felt irritable and mad, and later developed into an unbearable life and chose to commit suicide. The amazing thing is that even if he committed suicide the day before, he still had the next day. Will wake up like yesterday and face everything before. Yes, suicide is the end of a person’s life. This way of ending officially declares that the person’s life is nothing but monotonous repetition.
People are not machines after all. People can think and have emotions. The protagonist gradually discovers that his love and actions can change the lives of people around him and bring them happiness and joy. And he found out that he liked his partner, but he hadn't had the confidence to confess to her. So he consciously did something helpful to others based on the details of life he knew familiar to him, and brought happiness to others as well as happiness to himself. He also found a way that she readily accepts after confessing his failure to his beloved several times.
A miracle appeared at this time. His life did not stop on Groundhog Day. The calendar finally turned over from that day, and he could finally live a new life.
We are full of love in our hearts and able to act positively. This kind of life, even if every day seems to be a simple repetition, we will not get tired of it.
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