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With that being said, the theme that we are radically free is depicted many times throughout the movie Groundhog Day. Our individual choices affect everybody around us, and we experience anxiety in recognizing our freedom. Choices we make shape us, we create ourselves”. Jean Sartre emphasizes this idea by saying, “there isn’t anything built in, with time, we construct our essence. But one major theme of existentialism is that we are radically free.

To be inauthentic means to be alienated from ourselves and each other. We tend live our lives wrong, and because of this, we live inauthentically. Although your everyday life shapes who you are, we are subject to fundamental illusions. Our intentions and life projects are essential to this theory. Existentialist believe that reality is change, and as a human, you are in a constant process of becoming who you are.

It is the philosophical idea that reality is characterized by change. Existentialism was a term coined by Gabriel Marcel and applied to Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. This movie can closely relate to themes of existentialism. However, once Phil discovers that he is trapped and no one is aware, he starts doing whatever he wants because there are no consequences for his actions. Thinking he is going crazy at first, Phil panics for a way out of the time loop. He then discovers that he is reliving the same day. To his surprise, the next day he wakes up to the same radio broadcast and song. Due to the blizzard, the roads become closed, and Phil is stuck in Punxsutawney. On their way back to Pittsburgh, snow is falling down heavily, and the roads become covered in a thick white sheet.