Peg Kerr's Journal

Interesting, because to my mind, the take-home message of Groundhog Day was that what mattered, at least as much as the Bill Murray character learning compassion and unselfishness and other such virtues, was him learning competence in shaping his routines to best fit the desired outcomes; and I don't know how long he was actually stuck in that day - the writer/director commentary tracks on the DVD suggest differing opinions among between years and centuries - but even if it's only a copuple of years, he's going to have a drastically hard time adjusting to being back in regular time with no do-overs, which might have made an interesting sequel if it were not likely to be a pretty serious downer. It has the same problem I have with a lot of supposedly inspirational stories, of the consequences at further levels of working out not being unambiguously positive, and I think I get more out of stories that are more direct about being unambigously positive but are still hopeful.