The ending genuinely ruins it for me. Not because it isn’t “romantic,” but because it completely waters down everything Eliza becomes throughout the story.

George Bernard Shaw was right to insist she should never end up with Higgins. Their relationship was never a love story to begin with, it was about Eliza discovering her own self-worth. Higgins treats her like an experiment for most of the film, yet the ending frames her return as comforting and sweet instead of tragic…