Creeper effect


As I watched this movie I didn't realize how much it was going to stay with me and get me thinking for hours afterwards. It's been two days, and this morning I woke up and thought about how this movie reminded me of some scenes from my youth. Back when we're young, fresh, and crazy and running with even crazier so-called "friends", we seemingly had nothing to lose. We enabled each other to take massive amounts of drugs and lose our egos (well at least I did:-). In that state of mind, with hardly any regard for others, we were a lot like the characters in this movie when they're "doubled". Depravity, debauchery, and belligerent behavior just seemed like a right of passage. We can metaphorically kill our old selves over and over, and reinvent everything the next day. We're young so we have all the opportunity and time in the world to recover again. Years later as an adult, I feel like such a jerk for ever acting that way. This movie really helped me with that self reflection.

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Yep, the film was definitely a metaphor for being detached from the consequences of one’s actions, and hedonistic youth is a good example of that.

Bill Murray goes through a similar phase in Groundhog Day.

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Ha! Funny comparison to Bill Murray/ Groundhog Day. You're correct, though it's so comedic there I never really would have thought about these two together.

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Groundhog Day is a profoundly spiritual film, it’s effectively a Buddhist parable. Phil is reincarnated over and over, learning the righteous path through trial and error, until he finally reaches enlightenment and is free of the cycle.

Hedonism is a major phase of his journey, but it proves ultimately unsatisfying and soul-destroying.

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