What other movies that you can think of focus on issues of morality, responsibility and integrity?
Both the main characters in this film, Sammie and Terry, have to face these issues and make decisions about how they're going to live their lives. Yet the plot of the film doesn't resolve these issues neatly for the audience. It requires us to think about them without knowing if Sammie ends up marrying Bob or about how her son, Rudy, deals with the truth about his father; we never know how or if Terry deals with all of his many issues. All of which makes this a better movie than if it "resolved" everything. I guess the idea is that this is a movie about life. And, in life, you don't really know how things end until you look back on them.
Both the main characters in this film, Sammie and Terry, have to face these issues and make decisions about how they're going to live their lives. Yet the plot of the film doesn't resolve these issues neatly for the audience. It requires us to think about them without knowing if Sammie ends up marrying Bob or about how her son, Rudy, deals with the truth about his father; we never know how or if Terry deals with all of his many issues. All of which makes this a better movie than if it "resolved" everything. I guess the idea is that this is a movie about life. And, in life, you don't really know how things end until you look back on them.