It Seemed Appropriate On That Date

After realising just what day yesterday was, I decided to change my routine just a little and opened a movie I'd bought off the discount rack not that long ago, all things considered. Groundhog Day, after all, seemed appropriate to watch the movie Groundhog Day...

My grandparents had taped the movie off their movie channel not that long after it came out, but I can't quite remember watching through the whole thing start to finish. I suppose I was therefore left with a sense of a lot but not all of it being familiar; of course, the situation in the movie has wound up instantly recognisable... The parts where Bill Murray's character behaves the most outrageously (which I seemed to remember the best) might have appealed the most to me in advance of the more positive conclusion, but I suppose a movie like this is able to "have it both ways."

So far as "appropriateness" goes, I wound up conscious the movie is now exactly two decades old, and not having made a tradition of it might have left me a bit more ready to think "people used to look that way." I did, though, also wind up thinking a movie from 1973 would have looked more "different" twenty years ago than this one does now, even as I looked up a few pieces on it I could also remember.