Phils Love cave
Ground Hog day begins with Phil being an egocentric person. He is only concerned with himself and feels that everyone and everything should revolve around him. He finds himself trapped in a day that keeps on repeating itself, and with no way out, he feels he can indulge in a world where there are no consequences. After indulging in his world, Phil finds that there is still something missing from his life. He tries to make Rita fall in love with him. He tries to remember everything about her. He gets to know her likes and dislikes. He finds out what kind of drinks she likes, what she majored in and what eventually made her take the job that she did. He soon learns more about her like the fact that she likes French poetry and that was actually her major. He makes a wise remark about her major and sees the look on Rita’s face.
Thinking to himself that he should not have said that he repeats the event until he gets it right.
While Phil is trying to get the day he and Rita spend together perfect down to the last detail, Rita still manages to see through him. Phil was trying to get the day perfect so Rita would sleep with him. His ultimate goal was not love but sex.
He finally realizes that his plan to have Rita fall for him in false pretenses was not working, he tries to kill him self. He feels like there is no escape from this world. To his surprise he keeps on waking up and repeating the same day all over again. In one scene he has a conversation with Rita and she tells him that he looks at the world all wrong and that he should look at life like an opportunity. He senses that there is some truth to this comment Rita makes.
Phil finds himself getting satisfaction in helping people. He sees that the world does not revolve around him but he should revolve around the people he has. He gets to know all the town people; he makes a remarkable news commentary about ground hog and the town’s people. He catches a kid falling from a tree and comments on it, “No need to thank me kid, I only saved your life and almost broke my back, but don’t worry I will be here tomorrow at the same time to save all over again.”
I think this was the turning point for Phil as he realizes that its not about him anymore or him getting praised for doing things. He then goes around the town and helps everyone out, not asking for anything in return or even waiting for a thank you. He starts jacking up a car while the three ladies where inside and they comment to him, “Thank you young man.” Phil responds, “There is no need to thank me I was just around the way with a jack and a spare tire.” He was doing this just for the simple fact that it was the right thing to do and not wanting any thing in return.
At the end Phil is playing the piano that took him years to learn. He is playing at the towns yearly ground hog dance. Never once in his last day did he make an attempt at Rita. Rita just came to him. They start dancing and all the town people start coming up to him thanking him for all his good deeds and he is very modest and doesn’t even go into detail when Rita asks him about it. Instead he just makes it seem like he has no clue why all these people are thanking him.
At that point Rita falls for Phil, all the town people love him and the ladies are commenting on how good of a catch he is. The annual singles auction starts and instantly they call Phil up to the front. He is the town’s hero and women have a bidding war over him. Rita sees this and out bids them all. Phil in one scene is outdoors with Rita and carves an ice sculpture of her face. Rita asks him, “How did you do that?” Phil tells her, “It’s like if I know every inch of your face.” The scene breaks and Phil wakes up in bed to the same song but he then sees Rita lying next to him, and he starts looking around and finds that he has finally escaped Groundhog Day. He starts making out with Rita and she asks him, “Why weren’t you like this last night?” and Phile responds, “Maybe it was because you where so tired from doing all your errands yesterday!”
To me, that was the best part of the movie. Phil finally got it right. The world did not revolve around him and at the end he got Rita.
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