What helps make the film so unforgettable is how much we wrestle with our feelings – ethical, sexual, religious if we're religious or not and, just, how we feel about our hero. We don't buy their happy ending... And yet, we don't have to buy it. I feel like it works even with the weird, tacked on ending because questions linger as father and daughter walk back to their car, ready to return to downhome Grand Rapids.