The End of Pirates (carribean variety not butt or video)

So my friend and I were discussing the last scene in Pirates of the Carribean 3, (spoiler ahead, like you couldn't tell, but i feel obligated to let you (whoever you are!) know) the very last scene after the credits where Will comes up out of the ocean at the bow of his ship to a waiting wife and child. She read this scene as sad, because will would live forever and his love and child would not. There is a great deal of merit to that interpretation. The music of that scene the layout of it, the whole "anne of green gables-ness" of it certainly lend itself to melancholy. There was certainly a sense of loss to that scene.

I however interpreted it differently. To me it meant that Will would never become the hideous mutation that Davy Jones was because on shore there would always be someone waiting for him. If not the delightful elisabeth turner nee swan then his child or grand children and so on and so forth. To me the point of showing a generational progression was to show that, yes it's sad they can only see him once every ten years, but they still get to see him once every ten years, thats better than nothing.

I don't think either of us are 100% right or wrong, so i set myself to thinking on it and I boiled it down to our interpretations equaling our experiences. More specifically our relationships with our fathers.

I have been without a father for most of my life. He died when i was very small and my mother remarried but only briefly. So I don't get to stand on a cliff side and await a magical vessel carrying my father from the depths to spend the day picnicking with me. I would give anything for one day every ten years to spend with my dad.

My friend has a living father and although the relationship has it's ups and downs from time to time (as all parental relationships do, i think) she wouldn't want to lose him for anything. I think for someone who has a lifetime with a parent the thought of only being able to see them once a decade must be heartbreaking, for me it's magical.

Keep in mind i'm only speculating on her feelings, but it's based on 12 years of knowing her really well. And it seems a logical conclusion to how two people would see one ending in expressly different lights. It's especially interesting when you consider that on most things she and I are of like mind and we are both more often than not very hopeful (if not frustrated) people.

At any rate the last few seconds of P3 are especially poignant and will tug at your heart strings. what direction they tug are entirely up to you and your relationship with daddy.

How freudian.