Groundhog Day Existentialism Analysis

The four restaurant scenes in the 1994 film, Groundhog Day, take an already well-written script and bring the story to life. These four scenes play a crucial role in this film. They convey symbolism, highlight the protagonist’s character arc, and help communicate the theme of the film. This is accomplished through use of sound, lighting, camera angles and shots, costume design, and the actors’ interpretations of the script lines.

Synopsis of the film: In the film Groundhog Day (1993), the protagonist, Phil is an arrogant and narcissistic weatherman who is not happy with his job. He thinks highly of himself and

These are lines from the dialogue of Mr. Fox and Kiley the Opossum, from the film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Where Mr. Fox in the moment of questioning the purpose and the meaning of his existence. This is what it calls it an “existential crisis” or “existentialism”. However, these question did not prevent Mr. Fox from planning to do ‘one last job’ which is robbing a near by farms (Boggis’s chicken farms, Bunce’ a dwarfish duck and goose farm, and Bean’s turkey and apple farm ) but someone may say it actually encouraged him. The term “existentialism” used for first time by Jean-Paul Sartre and his associates, such as Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus during the cultural movement in Europe in the 1940s-1950s . Clearly Mr. Fox is not satisfied with his job as a writer even though the one can notice that he like to give speeches, lecture and advise everyone around him, but that does not satisfied him and he is still looking for a meaning for his life. For Sartre “existence precedes essence” is the cure idea of existentialism, which means that the person is the one who create his identities and values . In another word the individual is the one who create what or who he is and why he is practicing a particular activity. Therefore Sartre may say for Mr. Fox you are in a good situation and these questions are meaningless because the existence come first and later on comes the essence.

In the reading “Existentialism is a Humanism”, the author Jean-Paul Sartre presents the idea of Existentialism. He introduces this idea by stating that man’s plan in this world is not pre-determined, as we only determine who we are or who we want to become throughout life. Sartre states that a person is what a person does. He also uses a metaphoric scenario of a man jumping on a scene before defining himself. These two ideas imply that man has no ultimate meaning, and it is up to us to find it through experience and by taking action. Additionally, Sartre also implies that humans have a huge responsibility on becoming who they want to become as it is only up to them to do so, making us entirely responsible for our existence.

Jean Paul Sartre's Existential philosophy posits that is in man, and in man alone, that existence precedes essence. Simply put, Sartre means that man is first, and only subsequently to his “isness” does he become this or that. The implication in Sartre's philosophy is that man must create his own essence: it is in being thrown into the world through consciounsess intent, loving, struggling, experiencing and being in the world that man is alllowed to define itself. Yet, the definition always remains open ended: we cannot say that a human is definitively this or that before its death and indeed, it is the ultimate nothingness of death that being is defined. The concepts that Sartre examines in Being and Nothingness

Every life lived has an element of unpredictability. Sometimes, people have bad days that they would rather forget as soon as it’s over. Other times, people have great days that they wish they could relive once more. But in Groundhog Day, an unruly news anchor named Phil is forced to relive a single day in his life. After the initial fear and confusion dissipates, Phil explores different lifestyles in the struggle to obtain happiness and to find himself.

   Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray, is a film about a television weatherman named Phil who relives the same day, 2 March, over and over again. A & P is a short story by John Updike in which a cashier, Sammy, has his routine day disrupted when three girls wearing swimming suits stroll into the grocery store where he works and are confronted by the manager. Though their storylines vary greatly, in both works the main character in each is a self-centered, condescending male who eventually realises the flaws in his character. This realisation is, in part, brought out by supernatural forces in Groundhog Day and by a manager's harsh words in A & P. However, in each

The movie Groundhog Day is about a newscaster who visits Pennsylvania to cover a story on Groundhog’s Day. He ends up getting caught in a blizzard which sends him into a time loop so he keeps reliving the same day over and over. He tries everything to get himself out of that day, he even went as extreme as trying to kill himself to see if he would still wake up the next day. When he realizes that his action have no consequences on the world around him he starts to get creative. He starts committing unethical acts, like stealing money from a bank, stealing the groundhog, and punching an insurance man in the face. This movie is all about seeking out whether doing morally right actions or morally unjust actions leads to the most pleasure.

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“According to Aristotle, friendships based on utility and pleasure are inferior types of friendship.” (285). This reflects on his thinking that we must have true friends that gain pleasure from doing virtuous things for and with one another. This film goes to show how these ideas from Aristotle, Plato, and Groundhog Day, help to bring to life that happiness can only be accomplished in oneself when they forget about themselves. Groundhog Day uses the eternal return to help Phil Conner’s to relive his day, so that he can hopefully get a change of heart for his moral character and how he treats others around him. From the beginning of this film, we see that Phil doesn’t realize how small his own life and his outlooks are. Due to his lack of understanding on his own life, he is put in the position of living the day over again many times until he knows how much he can grow and make his life expand. The audience also sees his egoistic hedonism when he takes for granted that he is the only one that is aware of the day repeating. Of course, by knowing that he is only focused on wanting what’s pleasurable for him, he tries to do as many pleasurable experiences within the ever-present Groundhog Day. However, Phil notices that this repetition of events he lives, is not all fun and games after a while. He soon grows bored and tired with the life of pleasure he has, and tries to end his life because of

Sartre’s stance that human existence precedes essence directly ties into his notion of rational freedom and responsibility. Existence precedes essence means that there is no predetermined human essence and that there is no human nature fixed in advance of human existence. Furthermore, if I create my essence then I am wholly responsible for the person that I am. In other words, one could say that humans exist and subsequently make themselves who they are by their actions, choices, as well as creating an image of what men ought to be. “Man simple is” (Sartre 28). When we are born we have no essence, but through experiences

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For this paper, both movies used to explain Existentialism are adapted from real stories. The first film is Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed and the second is Into the Wild, starring Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless. In Sartre’s definition of existentialism, human existence precedes essence, therefore leading to meaning, purpose and identity. When Chris and Cheryl leave their family, friends and everything else they know from the society, they are attempting to find a meaning and purpose to their lives.

Sartre is one of the constructors of the philosophy of existence that is existentialism. Humans must first be born and exist before they are able to define their essence. He

Where from the root word Essence, is a set of characteristics that are necessary or essential for a certain thing to be what it is. For example, a knife may have a wooden handle or a metal, but it wouldn’t matter which of the two is selected, but a wooden handle or a metal handle “without the knife” neglects its sole purpose to be called a cutlery, as the blade itself is the “essential part” which gives the knife its purpose. But in the middle 20th century, a philosopher named “Jean-Paul Sartre” started to begin questioning the essence itself “What if a certain thing was created or born first?” . This became the framework of the “Existentialism”, which tells that “Existence precedes