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Groundhog Days: Two Distant Strangers

A Black man in a yellow hoodie is in profile, and faces a white man with a cop hat. The words "Two Distant Strangers" is written in yellow between them

Two Nerds finally watched Two Distant Strangers, an Oscar-winning short film which takes the Groundhog Day premise of a single, repeating day, and applies it to a situation where a white cop shoots a Black man over and over again….

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The Only One Awake: Groundhog Days

Continuing on with our exploration of narratives that use time as a device, we discuss three movies which take place in time loops, where the characters wake up and relive the same 24 hours over and over: Groundhog Day, Map…

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