The Happy Ending

Great cast and interesting movie, but I was disappointed with the ending. The point of the movie seems to be that if you are rich enough everything always turns out fine.

Warren William makes a series of very bad decisions. Deciding to take up with a burlesque dancer, cheating on his wife, writing said burlesque dancer love letters that can be used to blackmail him (this is supposed to be a smart business guy?), shooting and killing a guy, then going through many machinations to cover it up including paying off the building's super. Then when William is finally cornered, he blames his wife for abandoning him and never really apologies for his HUGE lapse in connubial judgment.

And yet at the end, he and Astor are sailing away with their son without a care in the world. No guilty feelings on his part that I can see. I didn't necessarily want him to go to prison, because the shooting was justified, even though he did cover it up. But I thought at least Astor might leave him since HE CHEATED ON HER WITH A BURLESQUE DANCER. I guess she loves the upperworld too much to leave him.