Happy Death Day: Today is Tomorrow

If one day you were killed and woke up the next morning with the previous day's events repeating, your life keep on repeating on the same day. What will you do?

In "Happy Death Day," Tree was caught up in this kind of thing, how did she escape the nightmare?

The movie "Happy Death Day" is a quality budget horror movie produced by Blumhouse Productions, which also produce "Split" and "Get Out."

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There are only four main scenes in the movie: Male dormitory, female dormitory, hospital, and restaurant, the total cost to produce the movie was less than 5 million U.S. dollars, but get nearly 100 million U.S. dollars box-office worldwide, the movie becomes the center of attention.

Time loop was an old idea, used in 1993 "Groundhog Day", "Butterfly Effect", "Source Code" and "Triangle".

It is easy for people to make comparison with "Groundhog Day", but unlike the classic old movie, the movie puts in comedy, suspense, and horror together in place, even if it is a spoiler, and it doesn't affect your experience.

At the beginning of the movie, Tree was a rebel teenager. In order to reduce the grief of her mother's death, she lives her life in a mess, staggered, wasting time.

Tree refused her father's care and love, never respect people around her, even throw the birthday cake her roommate prepared for her into the garbage can.

In addition, her relationship is also quite confusing; Tree will steal her best friend’s boyfriend, or be an underground lover for someone else husband.

When she thinks she was the winner of her life, she fell into the constant death cycle of being killed but found that no one around can help her. Only when you are in trouble, you will know who’s your friends really are.

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Her so-called best friends can’t help her, and the professor who she thought she loved, also can’t be trusted. She can only talk to the inconspicuous roommate, and the man, Carter, who she just met.

All this has allowed her to begin to re-examine her life, and the past three years have been like an alcoholic, a momentary paralysis of perception, and when sober, the pain and remorse are doubled.

That's why Tree confessed to Carter, "If Mom sees me now, I don't think she's not going to be proud of me." And Carter decided to believe Tree's incredible experience and even helped her to find an escape plan.

Realizing that escaping could not solve any problem, Tree began to try to find the murderer, repeating every day makes her aware of the goodwill of others, love from her family, and Carter, the simple lad.

She learned to be kind to her friends, cut off her love for the professor, and determined to face the pain of her mother’s death with her father.

To be honest, Tree is the most intelligent protagonist I have ever seen in countless of horror movies. She's not only quickly ruled out a variety of possible killers, and even set up a trap to catch the sick killer. Finally, with the details, she found out who really wanted to kill her.

Finally, with her efforts, Tree found out who’s the real killer with her body all covered with wounds, she not only get rid of the nightmare but also earned a true love boyfriend.

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Aside from these details, the movie itself is about the mechanization and repetition of each of us.

As Carter said in the movie: "You repeat the same day every day, and then you will be more aware of who you are, every new day, you have the opportunity to become a better person."

Tree can be said to be unfortunate and lucky, countless opportunities gave her a chance to correct the mistakes of life, but that is in the movie, we do not have the opportunity to restart our life in real life. In fact, every day we are approaching death, but people always forget about that.

Because we always forgot our time is limited, we always delay things to do until tomorrow.

You always think that the day is still long, just casually live today, anyway, I still have time, I am still young.

This self-hypnosis allows us to avoid difficulties, setbacks, pain, but the problem has not been solved, you find yourself getting older, still have not started the New Year's resolution, only to find that this year has passed one-sixth.

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In the movie, Tree wakes up every day and sees a word on Carter's door: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

At first, she was full of disdain for the word, but at the end of the movie, she was so eager for the rest of her life that she made a wish: "I hope to see tomorrow."

It is easy to understand the truth that "tomorrow may not come", but it is still difficult to live this life, what you can control is only today.

Life is always the same, many people's lives is like a mechanical watch, always fixed and on time, so boring and inflexible. But if you think of it as the first day of your life and take every day of your personal experience seriously, you'll find that it's not that bad.

As Phil, from “Groundhog Day” said: "Today is tomorrow.”

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