DVD | Look Both Ways

Rating: M - Contains Adult Themes.
Duration: 100 mins.
Genre : Australian Drama.
Actors: Lisa Flanagan, Justine Clarke, William McInnes, Andrew S. Gilbert, Daniella Farinacci, Anthony Hayes, Maggie Dence.
Release Date: Available now.

Look Both Ways is an imaginative anti-romantic/anti-comedy focussing on an unlikely couple.

Meryl has a vivid imagination, and visualises disaster coming from every direction; train crashes, man-eating sharks, baby-eating killer whales. Nick has just found out his body is riddled with cancer. The doctor won’t tell him how long he has to live, and it’s Friday.

They meet at the scene of a fatal train crash, and meet again the next day. Soon they discover they each have something the other needs, though they’re not sure what.

Possibly it’s their rampant imagination – Nick's is now working overtime focussing on death – his death – and the spread of cancer attacking his body. Or is it their infatuation with the subject of death?

What ever it is, it isn’t going to be an easy journey; but it is a rewarding one, as is the movie.

With the lives of people around them intersecting, there’s plenty of variety. The scenery is fairly focussed on the theme of trains and stilted urban growth – possibly a metaphor for the possibilities that the future may hold?

It’s not the fastest moving film, and in some places almost stalls, but it is an imaginative, compelling human drama, that will give you something to think about.

Food for thought
How we view the world is up to us, we can be positive or negative and as such, will influence us on who we are. How would you feel if you knew your time left was short?