Daniel Peterson Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 In honor of the holiday, I re-watched the greatest film ever made. It's still fabulous.
blackstrap Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 According to the ground-hogs,Canada will have good weather and the US will have 6 more weeks of winter.You will note ,however,that the ground-hogs all have a nice thick furry coat,just in case. 1
Peppermint Patty Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 I love that movie. It is quite spiritual. From Roger Ebert's review:"Groundhog Day" is "hailed by religious leaders as the most spiritual film of all time." Perhaps not all religious leaders have seen anything by Bergman, Bresson, Ozu and Dreyer, but never mind: They have a point, even about a film where the deepest theological observation is, "Maybe God has just been around a long time and knows everything."What amazes me about the movie is that Murray gets away with it. Phil undergoes his transformation but never loses his edge. He becomes a better Phil, not a different Phil. The movie doesn't get all soppy at the end. There is the dark period when he tries to kill himself, the reckless period when he crashes his car because he knows it doesn't matter, the times of despair.We see that life is like that. Tomorrow will come, and whether or not it is always Feb. 2, all we can do about it is be the best person we know how to be. The good news is that we can learn to be better people. There is a moment when Phil tells Rita, "When you stand in the snow, you look like an angel." The point is not that he has come to love Rita. It is that he has learned to see the angel.
thesometimesaint Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Daniel Peterson:You can say that again, and again, and again... .
LeSellers Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 In honor of the holiday, I re-watched the greatest film ever made.It's still fabulous.Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to have watched it today?I mean, anyone can watch Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day, but to watch Groundhog Day the day after Groundhog Day is a real tribute to the spirit of Groundhog Day.Lehi
Bill Hamblin Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Anyone who watches "Groundhog Day" more than once obviously did not understand the movie.
Mola Ram Suda Ram Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 (edited) IT has been on TBS (I think it was TBS) the past couple of weeks. I watched it twice."I'll handle this" Edited February 3, 2012 by Mola Ram Suda Ram
Daniel Peterson Posted February 3, 2012 Author Posted February 3, 2012 I'm not embarrassed to say that I still laugh at Groundhog Day just as ridiculously as I did when I first saw it.And I agree that it's a deeply moral and spiritual film. That's the greatness of it.http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228088/movie-all-time/jonah-goldberg?pg=1
Bill Hamblin Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 I'm not embarrassed to say that I still laugh at Groundhog Day just as ridiculously as I did when I first saw it.And I agree that it's a deeply moral and spiritual film. That's the greatness of it.http://www.nationalr...h-goldberg?pg=1I suspect that's because you're getting old. The nice thing about fading memory is that you can watch the same mystery movie over and over, and never remember who did it!
Daniel Peterson Posted February 3, 2012 Author Posted February 3, 2012 "Bill Hamblin." "Bill Hamblin."The name seems oddly familiar.Do I know you?
Bill Hamblin Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 "Bill Hamblin." "Bill Hamblin."The name seems oddly familiar.Do I know you?Yes. I'm the fellow you owe $100,000.
Daniel Peterson Posted February 3, 2012 Author Posted February 3, 2012 Ah. That's right. You're a drug dealer. 1
Bill Hamblin Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Ah. That's right. You're a drug dealer.And you're my best customer!
The Nehor Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 This is one time where message boards really fail to capture the true excitement of apologetic hacks and chapel mormons coming together talking about a movie.
noel00 Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 I have also enjoyed that movie, which along with Changing Lanes and Shawschenks Redemption are movies about less than pefect men being transformed. Some use what are unfair circumstances to make life better for others (library and education opp for prison inmates). Both characters in Changing Lanes come to realise what lousy husbands they have been and attempt to make amends.From a Buddist perspectivehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-richmond/buddhism-and-groundhog-day_b_1249815.html?ref=religion
Scott Lloyd Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 I have enjoyed the movie "Groundhog Day" in the past, but I have never really pondered it as theology. I'll have to watch it again with that in mind.Meanwhile, I can see some sublime -- even divine -- symbolism conveyed in the Disney film "Beauty and the Beast."
Peppermint Patty Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Ah. That's right. You're a drug dealer.I don't think you can call Bill Hamblim a drug dealer. After all, Diet Coke and Geritol hardly qualify as "drugs".Thank you folks. I'll be here until Friday. Try the veal.
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