[MILD SPOILERS AHEAD] Honestly, I'm just so mad lmao. Performances were decent and the film is overall well done and objectively "good," but that ending genuinely infuriated me.
I'M STILL MAD, like, I went into this not having read the book, with literally no context whatsoever, so I can't speak on how the story plays out there but if its anything like this, the message just comes off more "broken people cannot be fixed" than "life is filled with beautiful things" like they tried. I understand not every story has a happy ending but this just made it seem like some people don't stand a chance.
After all was said and done I couldn't look back at the journey and say it was worth it, even after they tried to drill that into me with that monologue Violet gave in the closing scenes. All I was thinking the whole time was damn so all us damaged folks are rlly just screwed then huh... I just felt like what Finch did in the end was worse than anything he could have done in life and it was just so discouraging... it says that people can't change which made the message they were ACTUALLY trying to send a little hard to accept.
In conclusion [MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD]
Finch's death spoke louder than his life, which pretty much destroyed the entire message of the movie and makes the hour and 48 minutes the viewer spends getting to know him by watching this movie feel completely pointless, not to mention it puts more value on his suicide than on his life by trying to use it as the catalyst that changes Violets worldview instead of condemning it as a tragedy that didn't have to happen for us (or Violet) to learn the lesson.