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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Somehow over the years I managed to miss this cinematic masterpiece, but today my luck ran out. I am amazed how such a stellar cast would be a part of one of the most disjointed, horribly produced, and cheesy flicks of all time. Like a slow-motion train wreck, I couldn't take my eyes off it. Just gawd arful.

On a personal level take heart your troubles, even your triumphs are transitory and eventually of no import for you (however how you live your life does and will affect others)! That's the whole point of this movie and yet I failed to learn it's lesson and am continually stuck in the moment beset with regrets from the past and fears for the future and I know I'm playing a game that is fixed but more importantly temporary, yet I'm incapable of rising above the fray and see it for what it is, an accident! Because of my inability to separate my life and my reactions to life from this absurd game I make one mistake after another! Salman Rushdie said something very profound that sums up this movie beautifully (at least for me): "I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come." Salman you nailed it! By the way the movie is well worth a watch! I was very emotional whereas others I've talked with couldn't have cared less! Perspective based on life experience I suppose! There's a comment from another movie (Gladiator) that in this context seems rather cogent and it is the following: "What we do in life echos in eternity" (The law of conservation of energy?)! What an amazing quote! By the way the cast gave great performances save perhaps Steve Martin whose performance seemed, at times, stilted or perhaps more correctly not genuine! Therefore I couldn't rate this wonderful film 10 stars.

The Grand Canyon (Kasdan, 1991) is a film about the obstacles of life that people face on a daily occurrence and the impact these obstacles have on the rest of civilization. In this film there are four important characters that experience life changing events and each of these events either directly or indirectly affects another character in the film. The first character, Mack (Kevin Kline), ends up stranded in a poor neighborhood and is confronted by a street gang. The second character, Davis (Steve Martin), is shot in the leg by a man that is trying to take his Rolex wristwatch. The third character, Claire (Mary McDonnell), finds an abandoned infant on her morning jog. The fourth character, Simon (Danny Glover), finally finds love after being divorced for many years. The Grand Canyon National Park, becomes a metaphor for the theme of the film; that no matter how insignificant and out of control people may sometimes feel, they are still capable of bridging the gaps in their lives. All of the characters prove that despite their circumstances, they are able to find what they have been searching for all along. The focus of the film's theme is on mixed emotions. Another film with a similar type of theme would be The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001); another story with several important characters whose personal experiences and actions are interconnected with other character's lives. In addition to the national park being conveyed as a metaphor to the film's theme, it is also used as a motif; being referenced several times throughout the film. The very first instance the national park is mentioned is actually on a television set. The second time it is referenced is when Mack and Simon are talking at the garage just after having towed Mack's car. Simon mentions that, after having seen the Grand Canyon up close one can really get a feel of just how small you really are in the world and how the events in your life are just little parts of a bigger picture. The reference to the national park not only highlights the metaphor being used but also foreshadows the ending of the story; that Mack will finally get to see the Grand Canyon.The cinematographer uses the objective point of view to convey depth in the film. One specific example of the use of the objective point of view is when Mack's car dies on a vacant street in a poor neighborhood; the camera is angled high with a clear view of the vacant street, Mack and his car, and the car being driven by a street gang that, soon confronts Mack and harasses him to get him out of his car. The depth of emotion that develops from the use of this type of camera angle also supports the mixed emotion theme of the film; it provides suspense and excitement while the viewer wonders what will happen next.I really enjoyed watching The Grand Canyon. Life is mysterious and full of devastating experiences and sometimes it is comforting to know that other people live in chaos too. The mixed emotions theme that was portrayed in the film is so realistic to the emotions people feel in everyday life. One moment life can make you feel the best you have ever felt and yet, in only a matter of seconds you could feel as though you have lost everything you have ever known. This film had a beautiful storyline and despite the clear visual indications of the era in which it was produced, the theme is unmistakably universal. Life will always be unpredictable.

I couldn't believe the overall rating of this movie was 6.3. It's a movie that peers into the inter soul of every person and leaves you with the desire to wake up each new day with the understanding we have been granted a fresh opportunity to do make a positive difference in someone's life. And a chance to do the right thing, thereby impacting our own life for the better. I can't change the world; but, that gives me no excuse to not change the world for the better for those I come into contact with. Life is about the vertical and the horizontal. We are to focus on the vertical and the gift of life that God has graciously given us so that we may make a difference in the horizontal--our lives with one another.