This paper deconstructs Christopher Landon’s Happy Death Day (2017), moving beyond its surface-level slasher aesthetics to examine its profound engagement with the time-loop trope as a mechanism for existential maturation. By applying an analytical index to the film’s narrative structure, this study maps the progression of the protagonist, Theresa "Tree" Gelbman, through distinct phenomenological phases: the Aporia of the Loop, the Simulacrum of Agency, the Ethics of the Self, and the Epistemic Resolution. The analysis posits that the film functions not merely as a horror-comedy, but as a modern Socratic dialogue where the repetition of death serves as the ultimate pedagogical tool for the creation of the authentic self.
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