When I heard that we were watching Groundhog Day in class, I have to say that I wasn't all that thrilled. I had seen the film a couple of years ago, and remembered it as being overrated and too repetitious. I bears mentioning that I was pleasantly surprised when we actually got to watching the film in class.
Even though the film is exceedingly repetitious, I discovered that this only enhanced the film. The point of the movie is to show the repetition as Bill Murray's character, Phil, lives through Groundhog Day over and over again. The similar camera angles and movements used subconsciously let the audience know that the day is repeating itself. After learning about the back story of the film, and learning about its adoption by different religions, I found the film to be much more interesting.
Knowing about the religious undertones gives a better understanding of the film. While looking at the film with this knowledge, its easy to see the positive messages about how to live fully. Though I am not a subscriber to organized religion, I found many good ideas about Karma and about being a good person.
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A new perspective is generally good. A new perspective on a suicide montage is generally...what would that be? Funny, depressing, enlightening?
---Colin
I personally didn't think that there were any religious undertones as I watched it but now that I think back upon it I find there to be an undertone of religion in it. I think that the repetion was pretty funny but none the less I did get pretty bored about it after a little while.
I do think that this movie brings good moral values but as for religion, so many of them have claimed it to demonstrate their religious beliefs is kinda ridiculous.
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