Plato Movie Psychology

1. Egotistical- At the beginning of the movie the main character, Phil, is constantly referred to as a pre-Madonna. For the first half hour of the movie it is clear to see that Phil is self-centered and greedy. He thinks so much higher of himself than of others and takes this as an invitation to be horrible towards other. This leads him to being very unhappy and having absolutely no one to turn to for help when he starts to relive the same day over and over again. Phil at the beginning embodies the person that Glaucon in Plato’s Republic is describing when he is talking about an unjust person. Phil treats other horribly and doesn’t always play by the rules making him inherently unjust. He may get his way for a lot of different things, such as being able to stay at a bed and breakfast instead of staying at the hotel with the rest of the tv crew. From a materialistic view, he may have most of the things he wants but emotionally he is lacking companionship. Due to his large ego that has been so hyped up throughout his life he is …show more content…
Humility- Once Phil realized that he is essentially trapped in this new life that only consists of reliving groundhog’s day over and over again, you can see a change in his behavior. Once he realizes that he can’t get out of this day he starts to change what he does. Although at first it is for the wrong reason, like being able to do things knowing there is going to be no punishment in the morning. But once he gets past that phase he takes the fact that he knows so much about everyone and what happens on this day and uses this fact to help people. He changes from this person who only thought about himself to someone who is concerned about others. He starts to take the time to learn personal things about people and uses those things to positively change the course of people’s day. It didn’t matter how many times he did things for people, he continued to do many positive things for people even when he knew that he would get no