Name: Is Groundhog Day A Time Travel Movie? - The Verdict
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The Siri's, where we tackle the biggest debates in pop culture and put them to rest today, will be deciding once and for all.

It's one of those infinite time lip situations you might heard about that I might have heard about.

Yeah, remember, like any high profile court case, there are strong arguments to be made on both sides.

If you disagree with our verdict, be sure to state your case in the comments below, Let's dive in.

Oh, but first, a spoiler warning is in effect.

A time travel movie involves time travel thing being, but when you put that term under the microscope and start pulling at the strings, the definition unravels into a much more nebulous concept, one with which Groundhog Day has a rather complicated relationship.

Time travel What the vast majority of popular cinema is narrative driven, but there's more than one way to tell a story.

Many films play fast and loose with time and chronology without making their narrative explicitly centered on time travel.

Memento is a nonlinear head trip that will have you MAWR twisted up than 90% of time.

How am I supposed to hear if I can feel time?

The Fountain and Cloud Atlas both take us on complex journeys through time, and yet neither can rightfully be called time.

Travel Movies from Womb to Tomb Way are bound to others e passed on present.

Where do you draw the line and where does Groundhog Day fall?

Someday somebody's gonna see me interviewing a groundhog.

In order to answer this question will be taking a look at the unifying features and characteristics that time travel movies overwhelmingly share in common.

Time Travel is a plot device, not a genre in and of itself bang.

Whether it's used in a thriller comedy or action film, there's often some shocking twist that implicates the protagonist or another character in unexpected ways.

The ending of 12 Monkeys is a great example phone call.

Traumatic childhood experience Takes on a whole new significance Predestination, starring Ethan Hawke, is a more recent example with a delightfully complex twist.

Is it about time travel or the perception of time?

Regardless, Like many time travel movies, it brings things full circle in ways that wouldn't be possible without a character being displaced in time.

Given that he's reliving February 2nd over and over again, Groundhog Day is all about predictability.

This proves to be surprisingly fertile ground for Bill Murray's comedic style, but no major plot twists racial clay.

When entering Lake Geneva, this river is clear blue.

Upon exiting Jim, what is the Rhone, the Rhone?

Instead, the film uses repetition to serve up a revelation of a more personal variety.

When Phil's imprisonment in punks, Itani invites self discovery, Well, sometimes I wish I had 1000 lifetimes I don't know, Phil.

The film's original draft did actually include a massive twist in which we learn that Rita is stuck living the next day over and over again.

Time travel movies almost always involve a mechanism of some sort.

When this baby hits 88 MPH, you're gonna see some serious, most commonly time travel is made possible by some sort of time machine or a time master.

The latter is any individual with the ability to move themselves or others through time.

As for the time Machine, it could be any device, magical, mechanical or even a force of nature like a black hole that makes time travel possible.

Neither one of us have time to worry about relativity right now, Dr Brand Most time travel films have certain rules, which are often tied to their mechanism of choice.

If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future and your former present becomes the past, which can't now be changed by your new future, exactly assuming a Christmas Carol isn't one big dream.

Even Charles Dickens provided a mechanism in the form of ghosts.

No one ever does a big exposition dump in Groundhog Day, however.

Nor does Phil ever discover why this is happening to him.

There are rules, and fill tests them in a variety of ways, but they don't yield any answers.

Every morning, I wake up without a scratch on me, not a dent in the fender.

If Groundhog Day is a time travel movie, it's more interested in the journey than the science.

Speaking of rules, most time travel movies agree that you should not interact with your past.

Self careful things happen to wizards who meddled with time.

Harry Thean Click ations vary from one movie to the next, but it's almost always bad.

Seeing a doppelganger could drive you mad or even destroy you, because physics bank.

Then again, if the time travel movies subscribes to a closed loop theory in which everything has and always will play out, the same assist from your past, self may be an unavoidable part of the equation.

And let's be honest, this town isn't big enough for two of him.

The master punks Itani fill the world's most famous weatherman, the Groundhog.

Rather than traveling from the future to the past and encountering his past self, Phil simply wakes up again the same morning in the same physical state as before, but remembering already having done so.

That's right, Woodchuck Chuck Er's It's Ground A.

We get that the time anomaly that Phil is experiencing is a uniquely frustrating one.

But hey, at least he doesn't have to worry about paradox.

Psychosis 37 Stages and Paradox Psychosis are Stage one Denial to Itching.

Extreme Thirst and Urination, four Excessive gas, five acute paranoia, six uncontrolled perspiration and seven homicide.

Already, when you mess with time, bad things can happen.

Third Time's a Charm one false move, and you can rewrite history or give your nemesis the tools to get filthy rich.

But when you time travel lives, hang in the balance.

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