Me? I couldn't get over the Ground Hog Day rewrite.
Personally I didn't like the ending. She gave up her life for the school weirdo? I'm sorry, but I didn't like it. Very heroic but why is her life worth saving over hers? I get it, she was becoming a bad person, but still, I wasn't moved.
Because she became the school weirdo due to Lindsay. It was their fault. They tormented her for something Lindsay did and accused her of. Anyone who thinks that is OK has bully tendencies themselves. Plus, she didn't know she was going to die saving her. It just happened that way.
shareYou probably didn't see the meaning of this film the way I did, her saving this girl was the way how to in a sense save her soul, not the life... for me the film was showing how to live fully enjoying the same thing as if it was new, it was about how to awaken from an unconscious sleeping jaded life, this film attempted to show what exactly it is like to awaken in life, to step out of the routine. This is something no previous Groundhog Day storyline ever attempted I think. If she didn't die, it would have never been able to show in a way that us helping others is something we take ourselves with us, even though those affected by us will not experience it at all, because in the film some days have started over again for her, so it is like what she did for others the previous days never happened to them (or maybe only in some parallel alternate reality), but it happened to us. It's all about us at the end, and with dying we see it so clearly. To me this was a greater film than Groundhog Day exactly for this reason, it went far beyond the surface of that film.
shareYou needn't be sorry for not liking it ) The movie is a moralistic snore fest.
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