I kind of liked the open ending.
But there were hints at their healing. He was no longer running endlessly along the water.
She was no longer sitting all the time on the bench with the plaque memorializing her husband, where she used to sit all of the time grieving.
He moved back downtown where he really wanted to be, instead of living uptown just because Gretchen lived there. He got his old authentic life back.
We could also interpret that the reason she's no longer sitting on the bench in Sag Harbor is because she's moved out of the family house they had together, cleaned out the closet of his clothes, and moved back into Manhattan.
When we last see them, they still had work to do--and the nod to each other at the taxi door seemed to go either way. It could have been thanks...we helped each other now we move on.
Or it could have meant we've come a long way together and we're almost moving on, but we're both not quite there yet to get together.
Let's face it...she was still wearing her wedding ring and had a closet full of her husband's clothes just the way he left them when he walked out of the house and died.
If Eric has any sense, he knows all that has to change before she's ready.
So, were they giving each other some more space they both needed for awhile? Or just acknowledging they'd helped each other in the interim and they'd go on now to find new relationships?
I like the ambiguity...
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