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There are countless interpretations of the movie, but my favorite is the idea that Groundhog Day is a metaphor for psychoanalysis. Harold Ramis—the movie’s director—once spoke of the many mental health professionals who have compared the repetition of Bill Murray’s character Phil’s day to the patterns we, as humans, tend to relive continuously. read more
Groundhog Day: Breakthrough to the True Self An example of an exceptional work of moral fiction is the apparently minor comedy, Groundhog Day, which shows us a character who has to be exiled from normal life so he can discover that he is in exile from himself. read more
These eight theories say yes. 1. BILL MURRAY IS OUR SAVIOR. read more