Analysis of the film "Groundhog Day", 1993

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

From the comments on social networks, it can be seen that for some reason people refuse to understand the power of the media. A film is always propaganda in one direction or another. The book is also propaganda. The song is propaganda. And communication is management. And that's okay. If a person lives "on rails" without a goal of his own, then any movie is in the subject. When a person sets a goal for himself, then he can say about each movie - whether it coincides with its principles, goals, ideas or not.

Remember the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland?

- Tell me, please, where should I go from here?

- Where do you want to go? - answered the Cat.

- I don't care … - said Alice.

- Then it doesn't matter where you go, - the Cat remarked: You will definitely get somewhere. The main thing is to go and nowhere do not fold.

I started thinking about how to filter films when I thought about what to offer to watch, listen and read to my children, and what should be completely banned. Then I began to figure out how to do this. The fact that people do not know how to understand the meaning of the film, nor how it affects the unconscious, this shows that no one even sets himself the goal of understanding. I did not find the sign, here is the link to the brochure "How to read books"

Today is a holiday in Canada - Groundhog Day. And I decided to interpret the 1993 film, which is called "Groundhog Day", the one that was taken apart into quotes and caused a lot of imitations. The film gives the impression of a light romantic comedy, but in fact it is something much more. I think if this film was shown every day, and even if nothing else were shown on TV and on your Internet, then there would be more benefits from TV. And simply - it would be useful.

This film is not just a romantic comedy, it is a fairy tale. In fairy tales, we are faced with "miracles", with what cannot be. But what kind of world can't it be? - in the explicit, physical world. And in a dream, for example, everything that is in a fairy tale can easily be. What is a dream? Who is watching the dream? The soul is watching. Russian folk tales (in Western fairy tales there is a different form, but I don’t undertake to disassemble the fairy tales of other peoples) describe the laws of the world of the soul. And the world of the soul is inclusive in relation to the manifest world, therefore the laws of the world of the soul are applicable to any of the worlds known to us.

Hollywood formula of the Russian fairy tale glades. By the way, Pushkin's works, as I understand it, are just as "multi-layered" - they can be applied to different spheres of life - it is possible to that historical period of life when Alexander Sergeevich himself lived, it is possible to the laws of society in general, it is possible to the physical world, you can also go to the world of the soul. Hollywood applies the formula in different ways, depending on which sorcerer is creating the picture and for what purpose.

"A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it - a lesson for good fellows." That is, there is a hint in the fairy tale for good fellows.

Who are the good fellows? - Those who strive to live according to the rule, to do good, to solve a mental task.

What is a lesson? - How to change yourself, what course of action to take in order to solve the problem of the soul (since we have already understood that fairy tales are about the soul).

So, now we are, as they say, "on the same page", let's find out what kind of "lesson" is buried in the fairy tale about the groundhog.

So, it all starts with the fact that we are shown a TV news presenter about the weather, who does not like everything, he is always unhappy, constantly jokes, and sarcastic jokes at that. And the heroine - his love (or a mental task, if we are talking about the sphere of the soul) walks alongside, but he does not even dare to somehow show that he likes her. A typical office worker who is out of place and does not what he wants (does not listen to the soul). Here we were shown a flaw in the soul - a problem that a fairy tale will solve.

Further, the hero finds himself in a position from which he cannot get out: he finds himself in the place he most hates - a small town where people are going to look at the groundhog and he gets stuck in this day when the groundhog appears. That is, every morning he wakes up on February 1st and everyone goes to watch the groundhog.

For several days it only dawns on him what position he is in. Then he realizes that he can do whatever he wants. First, he tries to realize all the animal instincts that correspond to the demonic structure of the psyche: steal money, sleep with a beauty, get drunk on eclairs. But none of this is enjoyable. Why, we're talking about the soul here, not the body.

Further, he is fed up with everything and he tries to commit suicide. To his frustration, the soul is immortal.

Further, he realizes that he can try to carry out this trick with the heroine: to impress her and drag her to bed. However, this does not work, and we already know why. And then that very turn happens when he has changed internally (lesson) - he stops twitching and starts doing what he likes. Really like it. Like his soul. Ignoring the heroine, he begins to do what he really wants.

As a result, naturally, “Groundhog Day” is no longer needed, and the hero receives a reward - a heroine.

Quote from the movie:

“- What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and all the days would be the same, and whatever you did would not matter?

"This is the story of my whole life."

This is how we go: if “I don’t care …”, then it doesn’t matter where to go.