Christina's final decision to leave her husband-to-be, in order to pursue a romantic longing to travel and learn creates an ambiguous ending that lends the film a tense, unresolved edge that is commonplace in teen movies such as The Year My Voice Broke and Before Sunrise (1995). The fact that her decision is greeted so positively by Nick leads the audience to feel that even if she fails to return as promised, Nick will remain satisfied in the knowledge that he freed Christina from a conventional life of drudgery and service.
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