Arguably one of the best movies seen in Big Timmy's class, Groundhog Day (Ramis 1993) forces it's viewers to empathize with the miserable existence of Bill Murray's character. Filled with joy, anguish, fear and passion the repetitious aspect of his life is taken for granted by him. I asked myself how many years was he stuck in this miserable little town, and while watching it picked it apart trying to prove as many thing in as improbable.
One event that stood out was his final news "speech" if you want to call it that, Murray is sitting there surrounded by countless other new anchors and cheering folks. I just thought it strange that if everyone else has no recollection of anything that happened, how did they know he was going to do anything special?
This movie was terrific and after glancing at the article in TKlob's blog I definitely understand why for this whole movie I kind of thought it was poking fun of religion. I guess not poking fun of, but more showing the importance of. Because of the empathetical nature of this work, ideas are very easy to convey, which is why it's such an awesome movie.
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I saw this movie a while ago and don't remember it poking fun of religion. Next time I watch it I'll have to look for that. Oh and I'm glad you liked it.
I don't think this movie directly relates to religion, but I think if you believe in "god" or someone higher then you might relate things that happen to that figure.
i see how you would say that this movie relates directly to religion, but personally i think movies should not be looked at as religiious texts or anything more then an entertaining 2 hours or so..
but i still love you
mack
Elliot I liked this movie also. I guess I can see how it would be poking fun of religion but I didn't really see it that much in the movie. Oh and don't do anymore physics
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