If you want to be analytical about every scene in the movie, start over. You missed the point. Not every movie is Citizen Kane. Sometimes they entertain us and don't need microscopic analysis. Soak up Theron's immense beauty and just enjoy it.
People mistake it to be a romantic movie.
It is not. For me it is purely philosophical in the sense that west is moving towards east. I loved the movie and I liked the performance of Keanu, especially in the last part. I cried so much in this film. Sweet November is a movie that I appreciate because of the happiness that it inspires.