A Critical Review Is An Evaluation Of A Subject: A Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day is the fantastic and romantic comedy directed by Harold Ramis. It is very hard to imagine living the same day over and over again. Phil Connors played by Bill Murray is a weatherman for local station WPBH-
TV Pittsburgh egoistic and overall not a pleasant person. He is sent to cover the story of the traditional holiday in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and he is the one to experience this time loop. What to do with yourself if you are a jerk would be the central question.
Phil wakes up at 6 a.m. the very same Groundhog Day, hears the same song over the radio, meets the same people, but only he knows and remembers it. This situation frightens and confuses him in the beginning. Obviously he does not believe this is happening, but then realizes he is stuck. Stuck not only in time, but with himself and it turns out he does not like being in contact with non-pleasant narcissistic person. Not a surprise for such man Phil sees an opportunity to have some fun. He has all the time in the world and he is wasting it on felicity. He runs away from the police, steals money from collectors, makes women into liking him using the
information he collects from them the other day. But none of that lasts, none of that makes him happy.
Not getting what he wants and waking up the same February 2nd for so long frustrates so much that Phil Connors decides to end his life and this time loop he got into. But this is not helping as he tries not to face his
problems, but to run away from them. Phil jumps off in a car to the bottom of an open-cast mine, electrocutes himself, jumps in front of a moving truck, steps off the top of a bell tower as again to amuse himself. After
many attempts, he chooses to share his situation with a co-worker Rita kind, friendly and attractive young woman played by Andie MacDowell. She does not believe him, but Phil is fairly convincing, so Rita starts to
sympathise him and mentions that she would spend the eternity in a …
