Why Is The Piano Teacher Proud After Seeing Phil Play?
The movie assumes she recalls teaching him many times from absolute beginner to expert, which is impossible.
He's my student. I'm so proud!
She is proud cause she gave him 'one lessen' and it already shows off big time! A testament to her great 'one day' teaching. Haha she is just hiding the fact that she is flabbergasted :D
shareBut, he's obviously so busy that day that there's no way he'd have time to go to her house. Plus, he didn't need lessons anymore so why would he go there anyway?
shareWell, that is the only real goof in the film and it's been discussed many times over the years.
He was very busy that last day. In addition to playing at the dance, Phil spent the whole day doing the broadcast, catching the falling child, rescuing the old ladies, saving Buster's life, making the dying old timer comfortable, performing chiropractic maneuvers, acquiring Wrestling Tickets.. No way would he have taken another lesson the day of the night where he killed it on stage. He was too good on the keys by then and had too much to do.
Even if he did take a lesson on the final day in the loop, from the teacher's perspective, that would have have been the first time she ever met him. Every time he took a lesson, he came in knowing more than the time before. A one hour lesson would hardly be enough time to get to know him or feel like she taught him much or take pride in his playing.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men ~ F Douglassshare
That's far from "the only real goof" in the film, there's a whole list of them on the "goofs" page here. In fact, I came here to see if other people had noticed the same same goofs that I've noticed. For example, no matter whether Phil takes his time leaving the B&B in the morning, if he talks to people, has coffee, or whatever, or if he just rushes by everyone without talking and hurries outside and into town as he did on the third repeat of Groundhog Day, the cars going by and the people he sees and interacts with in town (Ned, etc) are always in the same place even though the time would have to vary by several minutes.
shareWe don't know that. Clearly there was some sort of vast force that kept Phil in a time loop for a reason not revealed. If this force or entity could do something this enormous, it could have Phil more or less forced to run into these same people also for a reason not revealed.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men ~ F Douglassshare
Yeah, that is more of a definite goof in a way than the piano teacher. He could have had a lesson the last day, although her level of pride is definitely questionable.
I also wondered why the bartender acted like he was aware of Phil's scam with getting intel about Rita--although that may be a subtle deal (like he's secretly the "angel" or "genie" or whatever) rather than a goof.
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