Groundhog Day-Melissa Faller

Groundhog Day is a film based in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Punxsutawney Phil is a groundhog every year on February 2nd he predicts whether or there will be six more weeks of winter or if spring will start. Phil the star of the film is a weatherman who is anchor on Groundhogs Day. In the film Phil Murray finds himself repeating the same events over and over again. He begins to be able to use to this to his own advantage. I feel that Phil begins to enjoy manipulating the people around him. He almost begins to take the role of God. It is not until Phil falls in love with his coworker and can’t have her that he is unhappy with his situation. Phil realizes that if he wants to have her respect him than he has to treat her well. He can no longer control people and manipulate them to his benefit. This process takes a while for Phil to grasp, and I’m not sure he would have ever fully understood if it was not for the day repeating itself. I enjoyed the film I felt that it represented well the idea that we should treat others well no matter what the outcome. It does not matter if we are not getting anything out of it but it is rather that we are no longer living for ourselves. We need to understand and live outside of our world. Phil was able to experience this by living in atypical world, which in the end benefited his character. This made me realize how important stepping out of our comfort zone is. By stepping out of our comfort zone we are able to experience things we normally wouldn’t. Along with this experience comes the learning and growing that we as individuals could use to build gaps and fix problems such as racism, politics, and religious division.