Like any Hallmark movie or equivalent, it always ends with the two leads finding a way to be together. Despite the obstacles John and Sia face, they end up together in Find Me Falling. I’ve broken down the predictable ending, but I’ve also decided to have some fun and put together an alternative close to the movie.
John and Sia put their past aside and end up together
Maybe it’s because I’ve had experiences or seen others go through something similar, but I’m sick and tired of double-standard storylines in romantic movies lately. I’ve experienced The Idea of You with the age gap problem, Vanished Into the Night with the horrific child custody twist, and now Find Me Falling, where the mother chooses not to tell the father that he’s a father, for years.
I’m not entirely sure of Sia’s reasoning for not telling John. Her excuse was that he was successful, and many women were interested in him, so she decided not to tell him she was pregnant with his daughter. This is not a justified reason to not give a man the opportunity to know that he’s about to be a father. At least give him the option to decide whether he wants to be one.
John is fuming when he realizes that his daughter, Melina, has become a brilliant young woman who is equally talented in music as him. He’s lost out on a lot of his daughter’s life. John decides to drunkenly publicly humiliate Sia by revealing to everyone that Melina is his daughter. Of course, Sia is disgusted that John has done this. Why else would a man, drunk and upset about not knowing he had a daughter, do such a thing? We’ll never know.
By the end of Finding Me Falling, John has the opportunity to relaunch his music career, but at the same time, he doesn’t want to miss the chance to be with Sia and a father to Melina. And in a moment of madness, it’s John who desperately has to serenade Sia to get her to “forgive him” and offer a second chance.
Audaciously, Sia has to think about it, but she and John get together in the end, and John helps his daughter Melina launch her music career while he does not have one at all.
How I would have ended Find Me Falling
The game is the game. If John had not had to beg Sia to get together, I’d have been happy with the ending of Find Me Falling, but knowing what I know, I’d have done things differently.
Let’s face it: John did not deserve not to know that he had a daughter. Sia almost admits that her pride got in the way of being honest because she could see the attention he was having as a rock star.
Melina is too old now for a child custody case, but she does have a vested interest in music. John wants her to have a career, too, seeing the talent he has passed down in his genes. If I were John, I’d have got a lawyer involved, drawn up a lucrative label contract that guarantees Melina a living and a salary in New York, and left Cyprus with her.
Of course, that would mean leaving Sia behind, but I don’t think she should have gotten off scot-free so quickly. Eventually, John could have forgiven Sia and invited her to live with him in New York and become a family from there, but this is a far better alternative ending than John serenading Sia for something she did evil to him.
