Lamey
Since: Dec, 1969
Jan 13th 2011 at 8:34:23 PM
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"CPR Clean Pretty Reliable: Played painfully straight. Phil discovers the old man suffering from cardiac arrest, so he takes him to the hospital, where he dies. In a hospital. Later on, he saves him by performing CPR in the streets, and he wakes up perfectly fine. "
It's been a while since I saw the movie but I'm almost certain that this is totally incorrect. The whole point of the sequence is that no matter what he does the old man still dies.
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pittsburghmuggle
Since: Jan, 2010
Feb 3rd 2011 at 6:23:19 PM
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The scene is sort of ambiguous to me as to if the CPR does any good, but Your Milage May Vary.
"Freedom is not a license for chaos" -Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
Catalogue
Since: Sep, 2009
Feb 4th 2011 at 5:16:45 AM
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Ambiguous, yes. He might not even saved the old man. It may simply be the next loop.
EDIT: Watched it again. I think it didn't do any good.
Edited by Catalogue The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Commenting (and agreeing) on an eidit with the reason "we don't know that Phil MUST have killed people"
It's common to daydream about all the things we would do if in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, but that doesn't mean Phil exhausted all the possibilities or fulfilled them. He may have even murdered one person on a bad day and was so overcome by remorse that he was psychologically comatose for several runs. So while indeed you can imagine all sorts of things being done - it doesn't mean they were.
"Freedom is not a license for chaos" -Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics