There is no happy ending...

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 2004)

The previous review said that they enjoyed the theatrical sappy happy ending. I have only seen the VHS version where they just miss each other in the street and keep walking. That ending just killed me because I needed them to be happy together in the end. But I don't think that was the point of the movie. I think that the point was that they were a couple doomed from the start-regardless of what Evan tried to do to change it. In the end he realized that and let her go so that she could lead a happy life-though he would be forced to live without her-which obviously killed him to do because of attempts to keep her and have it all. You can never have it all.. The so called happy ending I've read about said that one ending had him chase her down the street. If the point of the movie is that they were doomed from the start...who is to say he wouldn't chase her down the street and their life together after the fact wouldn't still be terrible. i.e.: she gives birth to the next Hitler etc. Granted the books were burned-but the home movies never were.... think about it!