Luke McDade "Groundhog Day" Student Blog

I guess this is the first of many blogs for this class.

1-21-09
I was reading Eliade's "The Sacred and the Profane", an assigned text for one of my former classes, and began to read the entries on sacred vs. profane time. I bagan to think about the film "Groundhog Day" and realized that Phil's relation to time was always profane before his epiphany. He says "Like I want to spend an extra second in that town," relating his experience solely on his job. Even when he begins to repeat time, he focuses on the material and phisical aspects of eternity. Not until he decides to learn piano, an action used simply to enrich life, does he begin to live in sacred time. He realizes that his eternity would be better spent making the one day he has perfect for others, rather than perfect for himself.

I can't help but wonder. . .what would the film have been like if, instead of time returning to progression at the height of sacred time, time returned when Phil was the most selfish, at the height of profane time?