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** Yeah, which is why he stops doing it, and only gets the girl -- and gets his freedom -- when he *stops trying* to romance her and she genuinely falls in love with the man he's become.
** When Phil does this in the movie with the other ladies he seduces, it's depicted as being sleazy and unethical. Furthermore, Rita saw through his every attempt to try and seduce her this way anyway, even if she doesn't actually know ''how'' he came by this knowledge (she simply accuses him of calling her friends and prying).
** I'm not even sure why this classifies as "not fair" or whatever. He got the knowledge fairly the first time around (by asking or whatever), I have no clue why it suddenly becomes off-limits the next time around. Though Phil's motivations weren't exactly pure, he basically used the loop to provide Rita an amazing first date that went almost exactly how she would have dreamed of it doing... what an ''asshole'', right? (Hell, I'm not even sure what would be so wrong about "calling [her] friends and finding out what [she] liked" as she accuses him of doing. What exactly is the righteousness of stumbling through the date and fucking it up? People study for tests, why wouldn't you study for a date if you could?)
* The amount of time between the events early in the day seems fuzzy. For most of the movie, no matter how quickly or slowly Phil moves (most notably on the third day), he always runs into "pork chop" at the top of the stairs, Ned always spots him at the same place, Rita always asks "where have you been?" and he's always just in time for the groundhog to come out. But on the last day, he shows up early while Larry and Rita are setting up, ''and he's brought coffee and pastries''. And we find out later that he's bought insurance from Ned. Where did the extra time come from? It's not like he can wake up earlier. Maybe he found a shortcut at some point and maybe he went looking for Ned later, but it's a stretch.
** Not really. He'd literally memorized every single detail of the day. By avoiding the unnecessary conversations and moving fairly quickly he could have done everything portrayed in that day fairly quickly. The point is he knows exactly what would happen in most conversations and he's had a lot of practice.
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