Well, the ending completely ruined to movie.

interesting point of view.
I didn't see the end so dark.
At the end you see them in the park, so you can imagine...
But that's true it's not a funny comedy

But I give it a 9.

Les histoires d'amour finissent mal en généraaaaaaaaaaaaal

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Yeah I didnt see it as dark. I thought it was beautiful. Amazingly beautiful. We get so wrapped up in seeing happy endings in these romantic movies but this gives us a different kind of endings. Yes it broke my heart when he chased her down to paris only to have her reject him with a "shhh". but it was beautiful. The whole ending. Of him saying maybe God will bring them together one day. And then the end song sequence with the heart wrenching cry. It was beautiful

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Romeo & Juliet(pick your adaptation) is arguably one of the best love stories told but yet it has an awfully tragic ending!

If everyone had your view that no-one should watch a film that doesn't have a rainbows and bunny rabbits happy ending, then this and many other films would not be loved. This isn't the case.

Movies are about varying degrees of escapism.
With Fall it doesn't stray too far from reality.

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IT HAS A HAPPY ENDING!

Next time, watch it until it's over.

Love this movie.

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It is a realistic ending. People need to allow themselves to deserve in order to have. Sarah had self-esteem issues, hence she couldn't handle what she couldn't picture herself deserving. She kept rationalizing herself out of the relationship until it became clear that the real issue was her narcisism and not him, so she left for someone more "real" in that way.

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With a good ending this movie would have gotten a 9 out of 10.

Not so certain of that.

The ending to this is definitely less polarizing and needlessly tragic than its sequel though - which practically knocks everything in the film down as if it were a house of cards that had a strange immunity to wind up until the last ten to fifteen minutes.

Fall's ending was similar I guess, in a less exaggerated sense though but has the unfortunate task of capping off the film with something that's never elaborated on enough to give any sense as to why it happened (though I'm sure the more observant types who bother to read what I've written will take time out to say how blind I am to not otherwise pick up on it - fair enough is all I have to respond with in advance if so).

You begin the film noticing some mild to serious discord between Amanda and her husband - that sets the tone but in-between you have her character acting... I don't know, flighty I guess is how I would describe it. She loves her husband but she'll begin an affair with Michael. She'll confront her husband but won't seize the opportunity to drop the news on him that she's seeing another man.

Then finally, when Michael levels her with the truth as she's flipping out over what she sees as his discomfort toward going to lavish places/etc. she toys with him for what seems like very little justifiable reason by staying with him that night. It kind of negates what glimpses of substance her character had when she can't accept one reality but can accept or (I suppose) tolerate the one that she also couldn't or otherwise had trouble accepting as well.

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I guess different folks have different levels of aversion to sad endings. But it seems a little crazy to hate on any film just because the lovers don't go off happily together at the end. One would have to include other such horrible films and plays as "Titanic," "The English Patient," "Love Story," "Casablanca," "Romeo & Juliet," etc. I like films that run the whole spectrum, because LIFE runs the whole spectrum. That is what cinema is supposed to do--show us a bit of ourselves and connect with us and our emotions.

If you have managed to get through life to this point never having lost a love in a truly gut-wrenching way, you should consider yourself extremely fortunate. I found myself gaining a lot of respect for the actors of this film at the end--that moment when Michael is in the middle of the street and she puts her finger to her lips...oh my God, I have been there. I can barely remember the details of the many relationships in my life that fizzled out in the end. But man, I can recall every soul-destroying moment of the ones that ended harshly. Those are the ones you remember, and they help to shape and define you. For that reason I strongly believe they have a certainly have their place in the realm of storytelling.

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As someone eluded to, there is a happy ending if you carefully watch the very end. That being said, your need to have a happy ending has everything to do with you and nothing to do with the quality of a film.

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