Okay, Hear Me Out: "Raising Arizona" is Secretly a Rom-Com (Kinda?)

Okay, so I know I'm Laurenfilms, and I'm, like, obsessed with rom-coms. But I was rewatching "Raising Arizona" last night – yeah, the Coen Brothers one, don't @ me; I forget directors sometimes – and I realized it's basically a super messed-up, dark-humor version of a meet-cute. Hear me out! Nic Cage and Holly Hunter? Total opposites, right? He's a repeat offender, she's a cop. They fall in love during the booking process! That's a meet-cute taken to the extreme. Like, what if they met cute over a meet-heist instead? I'm just saying... it's a THOUGHT. And then, the whole premise is about building a family, which is a HUGE theme in rom-coms. You usually have the "will they, won't they" and the chaotic circumstances that make the building of a family harder. Yes, they kidnap a baby, which is, you know, problematic to say the least. BUT they do it out of love, or at least a desperate longing to create a family unit. They have their dreams dashed with what feels like the cruelest kind of irony -- they're not going to have a child of their own. They want to give their love to someone. Doesn't that just scream rom-com stakes, but with, like, ten layers of absurdity? I know, I know, it's not all sunshine and roses and meet-cutes after that – there's Leonard Smalls (my god, what a character!) and a whole lotta chaos. But even those chases and wild antics? It felt like I was watching a couple fighting for their love against impossible odds. The odds just happen to involve shotguns and a diaper heist. Not your typical meet-cute, okay?? So yeah, maybe I'm stretching, but my theory is: "Raising Arizona" is a rom-com... with a dash of kidnapping, a sprinkle of mayhem, and a whole lotta Coen Brothers weirdness! What do y'all think? Am I totally off base here? Let me know! I think the ending, with that dream seuqence about them and Nathan Jr. feels, in some bizarre fashion, romantic. Even if their love couldn't 'bear fruit' so to speak.