Originally posted by hard_boiled:
It's the single best movie ever made in my opinion- brilliant scripting, acting, cinematography, editing, everything.
And how did it have a fairy tale ending? Would you prefer them to hug one another and sing "We are the world?"
Obviously not, as that would only make it even more fairy-tale solution-like.

What I meant was
SPOILERSthat for an almost three-hour long film that lets you get to know the two lead characters so well you become part of the film itself, it is all solved in a less-than-minute scene. Saying that, the handshake was much better than having a big lecture to one another. It just wouldn't have worked if that had happened.
Mick