phil saves a boy falling out of a tree, a girl getting hit by a truck (deleted scene), and three old ladies from a flat tire in #groundhogday minute 84. plus, phil disappears all day and rita does what?

i've never read any chekhov, but that doesn't stop me from criticizing rubin's reference in #groundhogday minute 83. nor does it stop me from letting rubin defend his reference in his book, nor from quoting chekhov himself, nor from getting sidetracked describing the plot of the one piece of russian literature i've read as an adult--dead souls.

phil gets the old man some food but still cannot save his life in #groundhogday minute 82.

i don't like that phil calls him 'father', i don't like the nurse's tone, but i do like phil turning his attention to the old man in #groundhogday minute 81.

phil has a nice piano lesson, a not-so-nice? interaction with ned, and doesn't quite get into his fight against homelessness yet in #groundhogday minute 80.

coleridge's 'work without hope', ice sculpting, and conflating two different piano teacher scenes so i get weirdly confused in #groundhogday minute 79.

diegetic sound; freejack and millennium; phil's reset, muscle memory, and what does phil actually learn to do in #groundhogday minute 78? plus, the names of characters that you probably don't know.

the timing is all wrong with phils arrival at gobbler's knob in #groundhogday minute 77, but phil knows about a version of the prognostication that is not in the movie... and he's also taking an interest in larry as a person.