Imagine yourself on a regular work day..
You wake up, go to the office, work, and enjoy, if you can, come back from the office, do some things, eat something, and sleep..
You wake up the next day morning, and wow! Deja vu! Everything is the same, like it was yesterday? Has it got something to do with the Hotel, or the town, or is it a dream!Today is what was yesterday ! And the next day too, and every day in your life is going to be the same day, the same circumstances, the same people, the same incidents, the same weather, the same everything..
That is the story of "Groundhog Day"[what is], a movie featuring Bill Murray. The movie is a classic, in the truest sense, and the performances have been brilliant. It talks of a weatherman, living his life, each day being the same.
There was a theory that if we are let to do whatever we want to, without any fear of being accounted for, the world would be a chaotic hell! But there have been observations that, 70% of the humans, still did respond in what can be considered a desirable way.
This movie too, starts with Murray taking advantage of his situation, and desiring and doing all he needs to, to cater to his desires. He gets drunk, robs, has dates, and one-night stands (and he has no option either, because the next day he would be back to today!), steals cars, blows away his money in Casinos, then gets bored, starts killing himself, runs his car into valleys, over the mountains, hangs, electrocutes, doing all to kill himself, to find himself in the same bed, with the alarm singing the same music. And then he starts doing what he feels to do, and that is when the theory gets negated.
The movie, the narration, and the incidents in the story are hilariously meaningful! A must watch for anybody who has not yet.
One can't avoid relating oneself to such a situation, and so could I not. How would we live, if we realise that all we are going to do each day is the same thing, and there is no way of getting out of it? And then, why do we live, the same way, every day, inspite of knowing of a better way to live!
Let me know (better if, after you watch the movie), and I am counting on you! :)
2 comments:
hi nitin,
drupad here...had caught the last 20 mins of the film on SONY PIX a few months back...was intrigued..waiting for a rerun.....also looking for a dvd....will definitely watch it...and let u know
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