I’m in NYC hanging out with the girlfriend for Halloween and we were laying around watching TV at like 2 in the morning when the classic movie Groundhog Day. For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it stars Bill Murray where he’s a weatherman who gets stuck in a time warp in a small town on Groundhog Day. He keeps living the same exact day over and over and over again. No matter what he does, he wakes up the next day and it’s 6AM, February 2nd all over again.

Naturally, like anybody, he starts by fucking around. Stealing money, stealing cars, telling everybody what he really thinks of them, etc.

But the main story arc of the movie is how he takes advantage of basically having eternity to pickup a woman. Every day he tries to pickup the same woman over and over until he gets it right, and the evolution he goes through is so similar to the evolution of most PUA’s, it was scary.

1. He starts off by simply trying certain lines with her and then making mental notes which ones worked and which ones didn’t.

2. After awhile he’s memorized every right thing to say in every situation and actually gets her on a date, gets her to kiss him and even gets her home. But he can’t seal the deal. The woman will only sleep with a man who loves her and she can always tell that he doesn’t love her when they get into the bedroom alone. It’s because Bill Murray’s character has been doing everything FOR HIMSELF and not FOR HER this entire time, and thus he eventually gets rejected.

3. He keeps getting rejected and after awhile, he tires of going through the EXACT same motions and saying the same things over and over again. It’s obvious he’s faking his intentions and she starts rejecting him earlier and earlier in the day.

4. He becomes depressed and enters the “I just don’t give a flying fuck” mode. He starts telling her whatever the hell he wants and telling her that he’s stuck in a time warp. Because he’s being genuine and is completely detached from her response, she ends up believing him and trying to cheer him up. They end up spending the entire day together just hanging out and she realizes that he’s actually a pretty nice and charming guy naturally. She tells him this and gives him a new sense of optimism.

5. He then starts taking advantage of the time warp to improve his lifestyle and himself as a person. He befriends all of his coworkers and the townspeople repeatedly, he learns an instrument, he reads French poetry.

6. Eventually, she naturally falls for him.

Anyway, I thought it was awesome. I’ve seen it many times before, but never with the PUA perspective. I think it should be added to the must-see list of PUA movies.