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In the movie Groundhog Day, the main character Phil Connors, a meteorologist, continues to feel unhappy with his life. In the beginning of the movie, he covers the news report about Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney and then tells the wrong forecast about the storm that supposedly was not going to hit the town. When the same storm causes Phil, Rita, and Larry to spend the night in Punxsutawney, Phil wakes up to face a strange day. The weird part is that this strange day is just a repeat of the previous day. As times goes on Phil notices that he is reliving that same day over and over again. This takes a toll on Phil and causes Depression. His depression is portrayed by the Kubler Ross model that describes as the five stages of Depression. These five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
-An example of Phil in the denial stage is when he asks Rita to slap in the face when he thinks that reliving the same day is all a dream. He is in denial that it is real life that he is stuck in a universe where he has to deal with the same problems over and over again until he learns to leave the depressing life behind.
-An example of Phil in the anger stage is when he punches Ned. Even though, Ned annoys the heck out of Phil he shouldn't have punch Ned. That was very impulsive and immature of Phil to put his anger onto other people who come across him at the wrong time. If he was annoyed he could just walk away from him. He does not need to lay his hands on other people.
-An example of Phil in the bargaining stage is when Phil tries to make Rita fall in love with him. He'll do anything to try to get close to her and takes advantage of reliving the same days over and over again. At first he tries to sleep with Rita and she gets very upset with him so the next day he builds a snowman with her and tries to do all these sweet things. After making a bunch of mistakes, he treats Rita right and becomes a better man for her. This is him in his bargaining stage because he's taking a chance everyday to see how to besomeone worth loving for Rita.
-An example of Phil in the depression stage is when he tells Rita that she loves him, but Rita insults him and says that the only person Phil loves is himself. It's depressing because even if Rita and Phil have a really good times, she forgets and only remembers the miserable Phil who thought the whole world was against him. He even tries to kill himself throughout the movie several times. One time was when he was in the bath tub fill with water and dropped the toaster inside.
-An example of Phil in the acceptance stage is when he fixes the the tires for the old woman. After realizing how much of a jerk he has been and the miserable life that he's led he changes his ways and starts to help others instead of being selfish. By helping others he makes himself feel better and realizes that this life is better than his old one. Not only does he fix the woman's tires on the car, he saves the man from choking at the restaurant, and the tries to save the homeless man from dying.
