Part 14 of the 2018 120 Viewing Program
by / Director of Bow Valley
No matter what happens tomorrow, or what happens in the days ahead, I am happy today because I love you.
This line comes from the movie Groundhog Day.
In the film, the hero Phil is a weather announcer who is tired of work and life. It is another year of boring groundhog day. He unexpectedly finds himself trapped in this day, and he wakes up at 6 o'clock every day and still is still groundhog. Rat Day.
More importantly, in this incredible experience for Phil, he met a woman he loved, Rita.
In order to win her heart, Phil used this day after day to talk and get along with her to revisit and practice again and again, and finally he got out of his anxiety and burnout attitude towards life, and at the same time ignited his love for Rita.
"Groundhog Day" is a science fiction film, but also a romance.
From a sci-fi point of view, it reminds me of "Edge of Tomorrow", "Terrorist Cruise", "Source Code", "Lola Run", etc., but the style of "Groundhog Day" is more small and fresh.
From the perspective of romance films, I think of Charlie Kaufman's "Warm and Light", which I saw last year. It is also a sci-fi romance. Both are highly recommended to watch. "Groundhog" "Beautiful and direct, and "Nuan Nuan" reveals warm love under a little sadness.
It is recommended to watch, because each movie has a different style and has a different viewing experience.
If you're used to watching romantic, fantasy romance movies, you may already be immune to such movies.
But the whole film "Groundhog Day" looks old-fashioned, but the old-fashioned is not boring at all, which is proud of the director's control of the sequence of each plot and Bill Murray's excellent acting skills.
Saying the plot is old-fashioned is because the narrative of the whole movie has no particularly twisted plot, and it always revolves around Phil's mentality and the inner process of dealing with love. The first time he found himself in the predicament of "groundhog repetition day", he was anxious and frightened, but after getting used to it, he found that it was also a process of stimulation and enjoyment.
He started dating frequently, teasing girls, robbing banks, stealing groundhogs, and treating news broadcasts with perfunctory and contempt, and even began to enjoy the thrill of suicide, because he woke up the next day and was fine.
But Rita changed Phil, and love changed Phil. Originally, he might just be "sleepy" to Phil. He tried to seduce Rita to bed again and again, but he enjoyed Rita's slap time and time again.
Slowly he found that the reserved Rita made himself deeper and deeper, and this kind of love was an emotion that came from within, so he began to use a new way to win Rita's heart, that is: to make himself excellent!
Every time he wakes up on "Groundhog Repetition Day", he starts to learn piano, ice sculpture, and French, and at the appropriate time, it will be shown in the presence of Rita;
He began to broadcast the news in front of Rita with erudite eloquence, and began to treat his colleagues friendly and gentle;
He began to learn to help everyone around him, and the whole Psutani people were full of respect and love for him...
Does it sound wonderful? Such a beautiful love, it is as dull as the fireworks in the world, and it is also as romantic as the palace in the sky.
When dealing with people you love, it is not that money, material things and scumbags can win your heart, but you learn to make yourself better and show the value of love.
Love should make both parties excellent. One party is willing to do things for the other party that he might not be good at, to dabble in the fields that the other party dabble in, and to do things together that make each other happy both physically and mentally.
And a more beautiful love should be to accompany each other and be noble to each other.
After all, love is not only firewood, rice, oil and salt, but also poetry and distance, and romance.
In addition to telling a love story, the movie is more about exhorting everyone to a simple truth: cherish the present every day.
As long as you live a good day to the fullest, in fact, you have also obtained countless todays, and the qualitative changes produced by each of these todays will also change your life.
Your daily efforts, whether it is repeated day after day or day after day, as long as you do your best, will be the capital for you to become excellent.
This wonderful movie is here for you as New Year's Eve approaches.
Happy New Year's Eve, Happy New Year, and get off the list as soon as possible!
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