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This country is gone to sh*t. I was really trying to think about every word in this film written by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan. and directed by Lawrence. It gets weird in parts, but it is the conversation that really makes you think. Like when Simon (Danny Glover) is trying to explain to Mack (Kevin Kline) about the Grand Cayon: You ever been to the Grand Canyon? Its pretty, but thats not the thing of it. You can sit on the edge of that big ol' thing and those rocks... the cliffs and rocks are so old... it took so long for that thing to get like that... and it ain't done either! It happens right there while your watching it. Its happening right now as we are sitting here in this ugly town. When you sit on the edge of that thing, you realize what a joke we people really are... what big heads we have thinking that what we do is gonna matter all that much... thinking that our time here means didly to those rocks. Just a split second we have been here, the whole lot of us. That's a piece of time so small to even get a name. Those rocks are laughing at me right now, me and my worries... Yeah, its real humorous, that Grand Canyon. Its laughing at me right now. You know what I felt like? I felt like a gnat that lands on the ass of a cow chewing his cud on the side of the road that you drive by doing 70 mph. So, how do we keep from going crazy when the world around us is going to sh*t? We keep a perspective. We are pretty insignificant and our problems are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. We take it as it comes and deal with it. No, I don't buy the miracle thing that appears to be a thread in this film, but we have to be open to things that can and do happen and just go with it. We also have to keep our eye on the bigger picture as Davis (Steve Martin) tells Mack: The point is there's a gulf in this country; an ever-widening abyss between the people who have stuff, and the people who don't have sh*t. It's like this big hole in the ground, as big as the f*cking Grand Canyon, and what's come pouring out is an eruption of rage, and the rage creates violence, and the violence is real, Mack. Nothing's gonna make it go away, until someone changes something, which is not going to happen. And you may not like it, even I may not like it, but I can't pretend it isn't there because that it is a lie, and when art lies, it becomes worthless. So I gotta keep telling the truth, even if it scares the sh*t out of me, like it scares the sh*t out of you. Even if it means some motherf*cker can blow a big hole in my leg for a watch, and I'm gonna walk with a f*cking limp for the rest of my life and call myself lucky. We gotta keep telling the truth, and the truth is that this movie is worth your time. Mary McDonnell was really great, and I am in love with Mary-Louise Parker, always have been and always will be. email this review to a friend
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