The End?

Roger Ebert has been re-reviewing classic films for years. Here's a bit from a recent piece on Chaplin's City Lights:

That's what makes his relationship with the flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) so poignant; does she accept and treasure him only because she can't see what he looks like? [...] The last scene of ``City Lights'' is justly famous as one of the great emotional moments in the movies; the girl, whose sight has been restored by an operation paid for by the Tramp, now sees him as a bum--but smiles at him anyway, and gives him a rose and some money, and then, touching his hands, recognizes them. ``You?'' she asks on the title card. He nods, tries to smile, and asks, ``You can see now?'' ``Yes,'' she says, ``I can see now.'' She sees, and yet still smiles at him, and accepts him. The Tramp guessed correctly: She has a good heart, and is able to accept him as himself.

I dont know about that, Roger. I'd say one thing that makes the scene so famous is the ambiguity--she's finally met her benefactor, whom she has imagined to be quite different. So the film ends on a question mark--where do we go from here?