Phil Connors goes through the Five Stages of Grief.
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Top 10 Theories About "Groundhog Day"
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Phil was there for 10,000+ days to attain that level of knowledge
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It is a story of rebirth , along the lines of Zen Buddhism
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Punxsutawney is purgatory
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Groundhog Day is a tale of self-improvement which emphasizes the need to look inside oneself and realize that the only satisfaction in life comes from turning outward and concerning oneself with other
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The Groundhog is Jesus resurrected.
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It's a metaphor for Judaism: The movie tells us, as Judaism does, that the work doesn't end until the world has been perfected.
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It is based on Freud: the movie's a metaphor for psychoanalysis, because we revisit the same stories and keep reliving these same patterns in our life. And the whole goal of psychoanalysis is to bre
