It’s easy right now to give up, to stop caring, to feel that it’s impossible to exert any control, to affect any change.īut the truth is, it has always been Groundhog Day. Perhaps we’ve fallen into some of the same traps Bill Murray fell into – indulging in What-the-Hell addictions or What’s-It-Matter behaviors.
There’s an unrelenting sameness that comes from not leaving the house to go to work not needing to know what day of the week it is not traveling or going out for a meal or a movie. And as inexplicably as the curse arrived, it departs.įor many of us, Groundhog Day is a good depiction of life during Covid. He begins to find happiness in the simple joy of day-to-day life. He doesn’t need a glamorous job or an extraordinary place to live. In falling in love with Rita, Phil falls in love with Life. Instead of binge-eating and one-night stands, he learns to play the piano and speak French. Phil realizes that, though he’s stuck reliving the same day over and over, he can change how he spends that day.
It’s only when he’s encouraged to view this endless déjà vu as a blessing instead of a curse that things begin to change. Regardless of what he does, he wakes up in the same crappy bed listening to the same corny Sonny and Cher song over and over and over. Despite his best (and worst) attempts, Phil is unable to affect any change in the world around him. He’s stuck in a not-very-glamorous place doing not-very-remarkable tasks, and it appears this will go on forever. In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays jaded newscaster Phil Connors, inexplicably forced to relive the same miserable day over and over again.
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