I'm not sure if the directors intended this, but I always interpreted the end scene with them looking at the Grand Canyon, as a symbolism that life has its ups and downs, peaks and valleys (pun), as the Grand Canyon does, but that in the overall picture, it looks beautiful.
After all, why else would this movie be named Grand Canyon?
Yes, that sounds good, but also, remember at the beginning when Simon and Mack are in the restaurant talking, Simon says something like, "When you the Grand Canyon, you realize how small we and our problems are."
The world was moving and she was right there with it (and she was)
The key is tho to be able to be content and/or satisfied with life without having to look at the Grand Canyon. I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly inspired to live by thinking about how meangingless and small mankind is. It has to be something else.
"I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration?"
"Dogs and cats living together . . . mass hysteria!"
>I'm not exactly inspired to live by thinking about how meangingless and small mankind is.
I am. It's a counterweight to the horror that we humans put into the world.
I much preferred the alternate ending....
Where they all link hands and take a running leap off the ledge into the sweet by and by.
JMHO
I agree with your interpretation, and add that it's also about people being bonded together by the "common struggles" of life. The people who go to the Grand Canyon together in the end are a rather random assortment--A guy and his wife and son and new baby--i.e., post-struggle "rebirth"--the guy he befriended through random consequence who helped him make sense of his life, that guy's girlfriend and his nephew...sort of a random group, but they're all interlinked by so many odd degrees of separation, etc. "We're all one" and all of that sort of thing.
shareIt seemed clear to me that the Grand Canyon is symbolic of the separation between people of different races and economic classes. Simon and Mack (Danny Glover and Kevin Kline's characters), for example, live only a few miles from each other, but might as well be on different planets for the likelihood that they might meet. Similarly, from one side of the canyon to the other is only a short distance, but it would take a long time to traverse that distance on the ground.
sharethere are two "grand canyon's" that the title is alluding to---in terms of place-----la and arizona.
sharei thought the ending had no relevance to the entire film whatsoever, it just seemed completely random to me.
- Tony
Spiritual meaning, no.
Practical meaning, absolutely.
The producers of the film realized that they had to tie the title in with the characters in a way that allowed them to not really say anything meaningful (because they are incapable of saying anything meaningful) and thereby fooling the good portion of the public unable to see through this cheap and rather childish trick.
Don't waste your time.
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I think the idea of them seeing the Grand Canyon at the end, which Danny Glover mentions in the film, is the fact that even though the world can be terrible, there is still good in it. We just have to look for it.
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