To Oblivion and Beyond
This is the shittiest hot cocoa I’ve had in a long time. Riddle me this Batman, how can you make a drink comprised primarily of water and brown dirt worse? Make it in a used pepsi bottle instead of a cup. Mmmm, corn syrupy baked in goodness rubbing all up in there (That’s hot). Alright, it’s 2:00AM and I have my wake-up-juice, let’s talk time travel.
Time travel. Ok, Let’s approach this from a purely cinematic viewpoint. I mean, we have plenty to draw from, Back to the Future(1-3), Donnie Darko, The Butterfly Effect, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, The Time Machine, Terminator 2, Star Trek, and well you get the idea don’t you? The list goes on. Which to choose which to choose? Groundhogs Day, I choose you! Now I know what you’re thinking, Groundhogs Day, where the fuck is the time travel in that? There’s no flux capacitor filled Delorian, no eerie telephone booth from the future(I still chuckle a little every time I watch that movie due to its inability to anticipate the eventual extinction of phone booths. Futuristic movie my ass). Well you’re right. This film is much too daring for that. If anything this film is the originator of the “human vessel” approach, as opposed to the time warn time machine approach we see so often.
Now a lot of those bible thumpers and whack jobs out there are going to tell you that Phil’s time travel was not of his own volition. Perhaps it was some act of a vengeful God to teach a horrible man his lesson. A gross over simplification. Others might even suggest it was fate messing with poor ole Phil… Equally as shameful of an accusation. I postulate rather that Phil’s subconscious is activating a time travel mechanism inherent to his very being due to his own inability to accept what his life has become. Now I know what you’re thinking… This is a really nerdy blog. True… But that’s what you get. Sometimes the night speaks to me and sometimes I just ramble incoherently about Bill Murray. Until next time, Later Days.
~Aaron Locke
Tags: Bill Murray, insomnia, michael fox, movies, shaky, time travel