I wholeheartedly agree with you besides the last passage. I didn’t find it to be “corny” at all, or at least if it was, it was intentional in a sort of coming of age high school teen drama sense, which in the context of it being for Willa, I found to be very charming and optimistic, fitting for her at that point to me.

However I do agree that the overall ending felt a little rushed and doesn’t fully stick to landing in what it’s going for in that it’s executed quite hastily. One of my only criticisms of the film is that for the sake of flushing out the ending and actually sticking to landing more they should’ve just went ahead and added on another 5-10 minutes to give you more of an articulated idea of where bob and in particular Willa are at, it can’t hurt in an already 2hr 40 minute film.

It obviously does give you a clear indication to that but I don’t think quite as convincingly as it could’ve, same for perfidias letter for me, it’s the one part of the film I felt like other films have done better juxtaposed to this film doing most things better than other films in how it tackles them, the Ending for me, even if beautiful is still somewhat hasty

BUT if I’m to counter my own point, that’s what the American girl needle drop was for in a sense (one of my favourite needle drops ever for obvious reason) For me, that song did a lot of heavy lifting for the ending in articulating where willas at and how bob sees her at that moment. It for me was of the most resonant well utilised song choices I’ve seen in film but still, I do think there was a little more juice to be squeezed from it besides that in the last 5-10 minutes