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A few weeks ago, while talking to Marilia (I don’t remember the subject), I said something to the lines of “This looks just like the Groundhog Day.” and was surprised to learn that she had never seen that movie.

So last week we saw that film, me for the second time. It was amazing to realize that a movie I remember as a “pretty good one”, since I last saw it more than 10 years ago, could make such an impression on me this second time around. It was much better than I remembered it to be.

For those who have not seen it, “The Groundhog Day” is a movie about a weatherman who gets stuck in “the worst day of his life” - he wakes up every time on the very same day. Whatever he does that day, is undone when he goes to sleep, and the calendar never moves forward. No one but him seems to notice it.

The premise of the film, by itself, is enough to let your imagination fly - what would you do if you got stuck in a time loop on some day of your life? What COULD you do? Then the reaction of Phil, the guy who got stuck in the time loop, is pretty believable, going through different stages in a very reasonable way, some you may have though beforehand, some you probably haven’t. Then the movie itself is pretty funny.

So, if you think of “Groundhog Day” as a teenagerhood memory, maybe it is time to pay it a second visit!

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