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Reality is not an objective “thing,” In this 1992 movie, Bill Murray plays a pompous big-city TV weatherman who is forced to cover a small-town Groundhog Day festival. Through a time-warp, he is awoken again and again at six a.m. in the same town on the same day: Groundhog Day. He seems destined to spend the rest of eternity having to report on this same festival. He tries several varieties of suicide—with no success. Every day he wakes up the same person creating various hellish realities. He then slowly changes his attitude and begins to enjoy the town and the people in it. He learns to play the piano, ice-sculpt, and studies philosophy and poetry. He learns to enjoy the moment, and in doing so, becomes attractive to a woman who previously found him to be arrogant and obnoxious. This movie hints at the illusions of space-time: every day is the same day, every moment is the same moment. Space-time is relative—not an absolute. Ancient seers and quantum physicists try to convey this to mass consciousness. (Most people, however, still live by a mechanistic, Newtonian world-view.) When we learn our lessons, we graduate to the next octave of energy, love, and lessons. By the end of the movie, Bill Murray’s character has flowered. He finds what he has always been looking for: true love (the mystic marriage of male and female). He is finally ready for the next day. The moral of the story: master the moment. |
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