Last (sentimental) scene didn't work at all, did it?

I'm going to have to disagree. I loved the ending. I thought it was effective and a nice ending. But how is Adam a douche? He is her son and didn't abandon his mom- his father might've but he was a child so I don't see how he can be blamed.

All of the movie is useless sentiment. Why does she have to cry all the time. She is like retarded person and the ending is so strange. Why did she live with her rapist for years? Why didn't the doctor just call Ben right away? Why does the doctor get in contact with this woman?

I agree. It was cliché.

I agree with OP. In fact, that last few minutes dropped the movie one whole "star" for me. Almost as bad as back when the studios mandated a happy ending, and all the angst in the world couldn't keep a tacked-on happy wrap-up off the screen. Maybe worse, because I assume the happy ending in this case wasn't a matter of policy, but an "artistic" decision.

Hmm I agree. I think it could have ended with her last message into the camera, or even with Nasch showing her husband into the ward, to leave it open-ended and unsentimental.

The problem really is that the story has a premise, but nowhere really to go with it.

I definitely found it really stupid that she actually remembered the son now, at the end. I can see them coming in to visit her after hearing she'd been hurt again. But for it to magically jar her memory enough to now remember her son (when the whole reason they left before was because she couldn't remember her son at all, from day to day) was too much of a stretch, Hollywood, tied up in a little bow. You could say that all the events in the movie helped jar her mind ... but still. It made me roll my eyes.

Agreed, didn't like it!

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