While someone might see it as a positive: Gilda and Johnny are equals now and will live happily ever after, others might see it as a rather depressing sign of Stockholm Syndrome. Gilda ends her life with her attacker. This film is a Hollywood melodrama and ends with a “happy ending” to respect puritanical conventions. Family Values ​​Are Important: Gilda and Johnny will likely raise children together, which makes this film a typical "women's film": "generally domestic melodramas emphasizing a female star and focusing on typical female concerns such as finding (or keeping) a man. , raise children” (Giannetti 477). The carnival is over, things are back to normal. The Hays Code, which rated all films made at the time, would not have allowed for anything else. The men save the day: Uncle Pio kills Ballin and it's the policeman who tells Johnny that he can love Gilda now. Johnny must receive confirmation of Gilda's fidelity through another man. Gilda is unfortunately “not some sort of modern heroine” (Doane 2) but ultimately falls into the category of women whose manipulative actions were not made to obtain freedom but to be loved by a man. This is normal for a woman of this era. Hollywood films were propaganda tools for the U.S. government to show normalcy and demonstrate “Americanness.” They wanted to promote the American way of life as a model for the rest of the world to follow..