That’s 34 years’ worth of days!

    • Steve@communick.news
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      7 days ago

      Memorizing every little detail of everyone’s lives and actions that day always seemed incredible to me. I assumed he lived that day hundreds of thousands of times. Meaning centuries spent repeating the same day.

      At least that’s what I imagine it would take, for me to try countless methods of suicide.

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        I think most people who watched the movie a time or two (or twenty) already knew it was many years that had gone by. What time frame were you imagining? Like 6 months or something?

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            7 days ago

            I think if you would re-watch it now, you’d think to yourself “yeah, thinking it was only a year or two was just silly”

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              You’re not tricking me into watching that movie for a 47th time! To be fair to me, it was always on broadcast TV when I saw it, so I’d just come in wherever it was in the runtime.

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      Thank you. It reminds me of All You Need Is Kill, or the Edge of Tomorrow. In these kinds of movies they absolutely gloss over the massive amounts of time between the first repetition and the one that breaks the loop. Because, 90% of that is nothing, while %10 is incremental growth toward the break. Everyone’s played a game like a ‘souls like’, chess even, or a card game, and it takes hundreds of repetitions* to get slightly better. All I Need Is Kill does a good job of painting that picture, and The Edge of Tomorrow does a somewhat decent job of portraying that for cinema (they really should have kept the number count on his hand to subtly and fully express the time frame here). Honestly, for the movie, Groundhogs Day, we probably only see about 15-30 reps. But, the viewer can imagine significantly more. Same with something like the Apple+ show Black Matter, at the end of the season we’re led to believe what we saw as a dozen or so universes is now thousands, and it makes sense after the curtain is lifted.