Grand Canyon successfully recreates the random ways in which individual’s make choices, and it captures the sense of menace and disintegration that permeate when human emotions take into control these decisions. Big dramatic events, such as deaths, relationships, and shooting, take place alongside mundane things like cutting a finger when chopping vegetables, or learning how to accomplish a left turn in Los Angeles traffic. This is a film about moments that vibrate an impeding …showed first 75 words of 837 total…

…showed last 75 words of 837 total…consumed by loneliness, who focuses her emotional hunger on Mack and confuses it with love. Controlling emotions will therefore resolve in successful decisions which will not bring about afterwards regret and guilt. Grand Canyon can be seen as an attempt to recreate the ways in which individuals lives intersect due to emotions. This attempt to bring the various strands of the story together is as well seen through the final metaphor of the Grand Canyon.