Irony and the Fabricated Ending

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2004)

I know that happy endings don't necessarily make good literature, that irony is the hallmark of excellence, and that happy endings can be trite and fabricated. I know these things but I really wanted things to be happily-ever-after in this film. I think also that endings are always fabricated. Life goes on in some form while movies and books have to end somewhere, sometime. Anyway, there is a happy ending here that is just as fabricated as another choice. Since all endings are fabricated, why couldn't the author have fabricated differently?