It sounds like he learned two new languages. That’s several years right there. He mastered the piano at a professional level at a late age. That’s nearly impossible for most people, and would take a decade or so.
He has an intimate knowledge of every single person in the entire town, such that he can effortlessly rattle off the entire life history of any one of them. That’s at least another ten years. More importantly, he’s able to predict what people would do in different situations. He didn’t just memorize the routine of the town and everyone in it, he memorized most of the variations of the routines. That’s information orders of magnitude larger than just the history of everyone in the town and their actions in a single day. He was there for a long time. 1000 years isn’t unreasonable.
Still, we only see his experiences for a few days. It’s possible that was the intent of the writers and director, but at a certain, point it doesn’t matter, because art is as much about what the audience perceives as what the author intended, perhaps more so as time goes on. I think it’s safe to assume he was there for at least hundreds of years in the cannon of that story. We just see his first day, his last day and a few days scattered in between among the myriad of those during his time loop internment.
I just saw it again this week, too!
It sounds like he learned two new languages. That’s several years right there. He mastered the piano at a professional level at a late age. That’s nearly impossible for most people, and would take a decade or so.
He has an intimate knowledge of every single person in the entire town, such that he can effortlessly rattle off the entire life history of any one of them. That’s at least another ten years. More importantly, he’s able to predict what people would do in different situations. He didn’t just memorize the routine of the town and everyone in it, he memorized most of the variations of the routines. That’s information orders of magnitude larger than just the history of everyone in the town and their actions in a single day. He was there for a long time. 1000 years isn’t unreasonable.
Still, we only see his experiences for a few days. It’s possible that was the intent of the writers and director, but at a certain, point it doesn’t matter, because art is as much about what the audience perceives as what the author intended, perhaps more so as time goes on. I think it’s safe to assume he was there for at least hundreds of years in the cannon of that story. We just see his first day, his last day and a few days scattered in between among the myriad of those during his time loop internment.
Plus the movie would be hard to finish if it was real time over 1000 years.
It’s not too bad if you put it on octuple speed and watch it while doing some chores.