Does Possible Love have a happy or sad ending?

By the film’s conclusion, the two couples—Ho-seok and Mi-ok (working class, struggling) and Ye-ji and Sang-woo (affluent)—return to their day-to-day lives after being brought together by the documentary project and a tense stay at Sang-woo’s beach house. They’ve been forced to confront their differences, desires, resentments, and vulnerabilities, including how class disparity and personal shame shape their interactions. Though nothing is resolved in a conventional “everything turns out great” manner, there is a sense of change and soft possibility.

The film closes with the image of a full moon—a symbol earlier associated with hope and connection—signaling that even amid incomplete lives, there is an abundance beyond economic status and suffering, something human and enduring that can survive hardship. What remains is dignity, emotional honesty, and the suggestion that love—of various fragile forms—might still be “possible”.

So, in short: it isn’t a strictly happy ending, nor an entirely sad one—it’s hopeful, nuanced, and mixed.

Sources: Review in Loud And Clear Reviews — describes the ending as dignified and hopeful though not naïve Review in Aju Press AMP — highlights the full moon as fitting final image and that what survives is dignity rather than full resolution