Happy Death Day

*SPOILER ALERT*

Over Fall Break I got the chance to see Happy Death Day in theaters, the day after it came out. I had been wanting to see this movie for quite some time and had high hopes that it would be a great film. The previews that I saw looked so interesting and kind of scary.

A quick summary of the movie is that the main character is living the same day over and over again. The day starts and ends the same way every time. The day starts with her phone going off and her waking up in a random guy’s dorm. The day ends by her being killed in a different way each time. Throughout the movie she is trying to figure out who her killer is, so that she can prevent herself from being killed. The main character is not a nice person and is very rude to lots of the people around her.

Trying to put the pieces together and figure out who hates her enough to kill her, was the tricky part of the movie. The movie would have you thinking it was one person and then totally switch things up and throw the viewers off. Long story short, after lots and lots of twists and turns in the movie, it ended up being her roommate that kills her. This was honestly the last person I thought it would be. The main character is able to prevent her death from happening now that she knows her roommate is her killer.

There was a lot that I took away from the movie though. The first being, to just be nice to people. You never know what’s going on in someone’s life. Throughout the movie, the main character is mean to everyone surrounding her and not even realizing the impact that she had on them. When she had the chance to relive her days over and over again, she started to be nicer to the people around her. Living life to the fullest doesn’t mean being crazy and partying hard, it means being nice to others, building strong relationships, and overall being a decent human being.

Throughout the movie the main character does not seem to have a relationship with her dad and ignores all the phone calls he attempts to make to her. By the end, she ends up building a relationship with her dad and answers his phone call. They got lunch and she apologizes for being absent and ignoring him. The key take away that I got from the movie is to be nice and live life like there is no tomorrow.