He is not the god

     In the film Groundhog Day, the main character Phil is trapped in Punxsutawney for a second night because of a snowstorm that comes in after the groundhog ceremony. When he wakes up in the next morning, it is the same day as yesterday, with the same bad weather keeping him stuck in town and the same events repeating themselves like a broken record. In this endless time loop, Phil goes through a transformation and finally becomes a local hero in Punxsutawney.

     Phil planed and rehearsed everything so he could pretend to be Rita’s ideal man and seduce her. However, Rita gets mad at Phil after she realizes Phil is faking all those things. That is when Phil start knowing that he is not the god of groundhogs day, on the contrary, he is just a poor man who trapped in Feb. 2rd - even death cannot help him escape from the prison of time. Phil used to believe that “no consequences no worries”. He could do whatever he wanted to satisfy his desire, without being responsible for anything. Therefore, Phil did everything he could imagine until the excitement finally turns to be dolefulness. The reality is that the Groundhog Day experience is no simply in his head, but happening to everyone else as well. While Phil wakes up on a brand new Feb 2rd again, the consequences and hangovers that he left over yesterday are actually turns out to be others’ trouble. After Phil realizes his point, his attitude towards life changes completely. The enteral recurrence he suffers actually transforms to a power to help others.