Ground Hog Day
The Movie

 

 

 

 

A Few Questions to Ponder

• In 25 words or less, what is the film about?
• Why a ground hog?
• Why a shadow?
• Why a weather man? Why not a pilot or a bricklayer?
• Why Phil Connors?
• If you had to pick one piece of dialogue from the film that captures its essence for you, what would it be?
• For you, what are the most powerful metaphors that are used in the film? Why do you find them powerful? What do they mean to you; i.e., what is the metaphor being used to express? (Do your best to express it without using the metaphor.)
• Which reading(s) for this course do you find most powerfully illustrated in the film?
• What does this film have to do with organizations that learn anyway?
• What do you take away from the film? What (if anything) do you know or believe now that you didn’t before you watched it?