Last night I convinced a couple friends to watch GD with me. See! This challenge doesn’t have to keep me from being social. Of course after a while friends probably won’t want to watch Groundhog Day anymore, but we won’t think about that.
My friend Clay and I argued over whether or not Phil saw a neurologist, a shrink, and drove on the train tracks all in the same day. Originally I didn’t really think about it and just assumed it was one day, but really it could multiple days. After all, it would be hard to make a neurologist and psychologist appointment all in the same day. I wonder how many days I’d go trying to live quasi normal before flipping out.
Another thing I’ve thought about almost every time I’ve watched the movie is the idea that each day that Phil lives actually continues in some alternate reality. In some parallel universe each Groundhog Day is real and the consequences stick. Proof of this theory: One of the times that Phil commits suicide Larry and Rita have to go identify his body and the day continues even though Phil died. This means that the repeating days do not depend on Phil’s consciousness or existence, its just that he’s the only one that is somehow stuck in the loop. Maybe everyday repeats itself infinitely and each iteration repeats itself too and there are infinity times infinity parallel universes where we each live out different fates…
