nikvoodoo
Feb 3rd, 2012, 05:50 PM
As it is that time of year (and I'm currently watching the movie) I got to thinking tonight: How would I spend my "Groundhog Day?" Sadly, I know there are some people on this forum that may not be familiar with the concept as the movie is older than you are so here it is:
Bill Murray finds himself trapped in a temporal loop on February 2nd in Punxatawney, PA. At first he relishes in the carefree, no responsibility aspect of his new life. Eventually he comes to despise his existence and inability to break free of the day. He becomes despondent and attempts to kill himself and while successful he still wakes up every morning in the same place, unharmed. He learns specialized skills and helps the town and ultimately makes himself a better more well rounded person before finally breaking free.
Director Harold Ramis said in the DVD commentary that it was about 10 years that Bill Murray was stuck reliving the same day. He has since recanted that and said it was way too short and that it had to be closer to 40 years. Other blogs and (lets be honest....severe nerds) have guessed everywhere from 8 years to 34 years using various calculation methods. But lets make this an easy number.......25 years.
You are stuck reliving the same day for 25 years. What do you do? Where do you go (I know the movie didn't allow the character to leave the town, but no restrictions here)? What skills would you want to learn? What would you want to experience? When do you think you'd mentally break and not be able to take it anymore? Would it be an opportunity or a curse? How hard would it be to go from knowing exactly what was going to happen to suddenly having to live in real time again?
Bill Murray finds himself trapped in a temporal loop on February 2nd in Punxatawney, PA. At first he relishes in the carefree, no responsibility aspect of his new life. Eventually he comes to despise his existence and inability to break free of the day. He becomes despondent and attempts to kill himself and while successful he still wakes up every morning in the same place, unharmed. He learns specialized skills and helps the town and ultimately makes himself a better more well rounded person before finally breaking free.
Director Harold Ramis said in the DVD commentary that it was about 10 years that Bill Murray was stuck reliving the same day. He has since recanted that and said it was way too short and that it had to be closer to 40 years. Other blogs and (lets be honest....severe nerds) have guessed everywhere from 8 years to 34 years using various calculation methods. But lets make this an easy number.......25 years.
You are stuck reliving the same day for 25 years. What do you do? Where do you go (I know the movie didn't allow the character to leave the town, but no restrictions here)? What skills would you want to learn? What would you want to experience? When do you think you'd mentally break and not be able to take it anymore? Would it be an opportunity or a curse? How hard would it be to go from knowing exactly what was going to happen to suddenly having to live in real time again?