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2	* How do you think she reacted when [[spoiler: she woke up 9 months pregnant]]? What about one day (every one of them), when she wakes up and discovers she's ''old''?
3	** Or when she woke up and found herself giving birth, or when the baby woke her up in the middle of the night?
4	** Oh, it's worse than that. Imagine going to bed as a teenager every day then waking up to meet a little girl and middle-aged man that you've never even seen before who claim to be your daughter and husband, respectively. Imagine BEING a child of such a parent. What will happen when the daughter hits puberty? What happens when her daughter invites a friend for a sleepover? What if she goes to one?
5	*** It is never explicitly stated in the film that Lucy gave birth, but if she ''had'', what she experienced the day her child was born was almost ''certainly'' akin to [[spoiler:the final scene of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People".]]]]
6	** Not to mention, when her father eventually dies.
7	** What about when ''Henry'' dies and she's got nobody to explain things to her?
8	*** Presumably, her kids will be old enough to take care of her by that time.
9	** What do you think happens when she wakes up before Henry?
10	*** Presumably he is careful to get up early every day. It's not that hard.
11	*** Maybe they just don't sleep in the same bed. Keep in mind she's not relying on Henry to explain things--she's relying on the daily videos and diaries that she herself makes.
12	*** With all the horror and such that people are making out of this, it's important to remember the one thing we saw in the movie. ''She started to hold on to her memories''. Even if they're vague, she started to hold on to certain memories associated with Henry, like her singing and painting him in her art. Plus she seemed to accept what she was remembering from the video tape and everything including the fact that she had a daughter fairly quickly once she was all woken up. Given how old their daughter is, it's assumed that it's been several years since the events of the movie, not just one year out of her accident like it was when she and Henry met. If she's been undergoing regular treatment over the past several years, and things have gotten better beyond completely forgetting ''everything'' about her life between the time of the accident and the present day, it may not be quite so bad, and she just starts to need the tapes and diaries to jump start her memory as opposed to needing them to remember everything for her.
13	** What's more is that when she's seen watching her wedding video, she looks down at the ring on her finger with an expression that says she recognises it. And when she's introduced to her daughter, she instantly accepts it and seems to know her. So maybe she doesn't have the memories right away when she wakes up, but the things still feel familiar to her.
14	** And the thing is, what her father and brother were doing isn't exactly preferable to how the film ends. I think Lucy would prefer that she got a chance to have an actual life in spite of her condition.
15	*** I think what her family were doing, was actually making the condition ''worse'', They were literally not allowing her to create new memories ''at all'', judging from what other have said about her reactions in the ending, Henry's method of giving her videotaped memories is actually working, and she would actually be much better if her family had actually done that instead of unknowingly forcing her to relive the same day over and over.
16	*** If anything, it dips into Fridge horror what they were doing before. Imagine waking up each morning not remembering the past year of your life, and your family is essentially lying to you because they think it's what's best for you. Only telling her the truth when they have to and not bothering to do anything much more meaningful because they believe it won't be worth it with her forgetting the next day. Completely denying her the choice of what to do with her life by trying to make her feel peaceful in a purely surface level way that assuages their guilt about what happened to her. Ultimately the first time she makes a real choice is when she falls in love with Henry all those times, and then decides to include him in her memories as she keeps her journals and leaves videotapes for herself. And the next decision she makes is to submit herself to the hospital to get proper treatment. Her family would rather keep her at home and in a nigh unending loop of the same day than have her get proper treatment as a first option.
17	*** There's also what Henry points out. What if her dad or brother suddenly fall sick, or if they got in an accident. How would they explain it to her day after day until they got better? What about when her father '''died'''? Her brother? Going by their plan, she would only have been able to live a "normal" life as long as they could physically keep going. And after that, she had no previous treatment or counselling with which she could deal with it until it was too late.
18	* An example from the scene where Henry chats up Lucy, only to be rebuffed by her. To him, it's nothing and he was making a joke. But to her, she was confused, angry, maybe even frightened. Imagine enjoying your breakfast only for some stranger to come up out of nowhere, chatting with you, claiming you have met yesterday.
19	* If you notice, Lucy eats waffles every day since the accident. If she becomes a diabetic, what if she doesn't know about it and she goes into a glucose shock from consuming a favorite sugary breakfast? Every time without explanation? What if she was to never enjoy her favorite breakfast again?
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22	* Lucy's father keeps a freezer full of pineapples so she can make him a pineapple cake every day. While it might just be practical, keep in mind that Lucy got her injury while driving with him to get a pineapple for his birthday. This might be his way of not having to relive the accident that took her memory.
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26	* Why does the movie take place in Hawaii? Because the filmmakers enjoyed the scenery? Or maybe it's because it simply had to take place someplace where the climate is the same year round for the plot to work. If, for example, they lived in New York, Lucy would wake up during a mid-winter blizzard thinking it was October. (Related to this, isn't it fortunate that her father and brother don't have jobs that require different schedules on different days?)
27	** Why does a movie ''have'' to take place anywhere other than to suit the plot or be a nice setting to film? Or, for a more serious answer, Hawaii lines up with Henry's job, which is wildlife veterinarian, wherein he seems to have an interest in aquatic animals. With Henry's career trajectory and interest in hitting on tourist women, it makes sense to be in Hawaii rather than, say, a small zoo in Wyoming or somesuch.
28	** My point was, the whole plot aspect of recreating the same day for a year would only work in a very limited number of locations. Any place that experiences all four seasons is out. I figure they picked Hawaii for that reason, then came up with Henry's job and other logistics of the characters' lives based on that.
29	** This being an Adam Sandler movie, "[[VacationDearBoy because he wanted a vacation in Hawaii]]" is likely the right answer. That is well thought out, though.
30	* Why would anyone have thought it was necessary to make Lucy relive the same day over and over again? Specially to the sheer 'extent' of her father and brother's efforts. How would that be helpful? She doesn't even remember the day they're recreating, and even if she did it'd certainly be both healthier and easier to give her a rundown every morning than it'd be to trap all three of them in a self-made GroundhogDayLoop for all eternity. That's not even going into how they intended to keep the charade going when she became old enough that she'd think she aged 40 years overnight.

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