A young woman is walking home from work when she’s approached by a man who asks her to look both ways. She does, and he then runs away.
In the first story, a woman reflects on her choices that led to her current situation. In the second, a man reflects on his choices that led to his current situation. Both stories explore the consequences of making different decisions and how those decisions have affected their respective characters.
Natalie’s life is going according to plan until she meets a man named Adam who changes everything. He tells her that he can help her achieve her dreams and that she doesn’t have to go through with anything she doesn’t want to. Natalie is hesitant at first, but after getting to know Adam better, she realizes that he is the only one who can help her achieve her goals. She decides to take his advice and follow him into the unknown.
Natalie wishes to settle down in Los Angeles with her best friend after graduating from college. Her plan begins with her relocating to Los Angeles to establish herself as a creative animator. Given that it is their final night of college, she and Gabe participate in an act of spontaneity, leading to the pair having sex. This prompts Natalie to get a pregnancy test while the graduation celebration rages outside.
Natalie’s life is divided into two possible futures based on the result of her pregnancy test. Each timeline has a different set of possible outcomes, which means Natalie has to make a choice about which one she wants to live in. The movie alternates between the two timelines throughout, so we’ll take a look at what this all means. ..
Natalie takes the pregnancy test because she is concerned about the baby’s health.
In the movie, the lead character’s life is shown in two different ways simultaneously. Natalie seems to have a fling with her classmate Gabe the night before she graduates from college. Consequently, she finds herself puking on the floor at the graduation party.
A pregnant woman at a gas station in Texas was given a sushi meal by the attendant. She could be sick from the sushi, but equally pregnant, which leads spectators on an adventure into two alternate realities: one in which the result is negative and the other in which it comes out positive. Both possibilities result in uplifting, endearing, and meaningful messages. ..
The Look Both Ways alternate reality features a world in which Donald Trump is president and the United States is in a state of emergency. In the other alternate reality, Hillary Clinton is president and the United States is in a state of prosperity. ..
Natalie plans to conceive the baby after a quick conversation with Gabe in the universe where the test is positive. When she returns home, her mom and dad are disappointed and furious that their arrangements have now been altered. But gradually they calm down and allow Natalie to remain with them to assist her with the infant. Gabe continues to be involved and accepts his fair share of roles and responsibilities.
Natalie landed a job with her idol, Lucy, and had a meaningful relationship with a young producer named Jake. She believed she was on the right track but unaware that plans occasionally didn’t work out.
Natalie encounters many challenges in her work as a journalist. She has to be careful not to get too close to the truth, and she has to be able to handle difficult conversations.
Natalie, who is pregnant and chooses to keep the baby, believes that this is the best course of action for her and her child, but cannot help but feel bad about not being able to move to Los Angeles and pursue her career. She was meant to advance in her career, but instead, she has returned home and is in charge of a child. Soon after becoming a mother, she experiences the ramifications and fears that she no longer has a life. Her daughter Rosie is the center of her universe. ..
Although her romantic life is in disarray, Rosie is still in love with Gabe. She does not wish to jeopardize their amicable friendship for the sake of her child. She reasons that if they start dating and later split up, their child would have a negative impact.
Natalie can’t be around her friends as she is unable to trust anyone with Rosie. Natalie arrives home sooner than planned from a vacation. She confronts Gabe about leaving their child with a caregiver. He explains that the reason he took a long time to get home was because he proposed to his girlfriend. Natalie, who is heartbroken by the news, ends up overworking as a defense mechanism.
Natalie’s job with Lucy is not what she had wished for because she spends most of her time fetching coffee instead of showcasing her creations.
Natalie had also planned on falling in love, which she does with Jake. However, she completely overlooks the likelihood that they could split up, a scenario that occurs when Jake receives money for his movie and is required to spend six months in Nova Scotia. Despite their best efforts, the couple’s romance starts to crumble due to the distance between them, and Natalie loses her job as Lucy’s employee.
The two realities’ conflicts are resolved through dialogue and negotiation. ..
The movie is about the power of choice and the importance of making the right one.
Natalie creates Night Owl, an animation based on her daughter, after Lucy criticizes her work. She is then invited to participate on a panel at SXSW. Gabe, their child, and Natalie’s parents all go to show their support for Natalie. ..
Gabe and Natalie’s conversation following their performance at the festival is revealing. Gabe tells her that he and his former girlfriend split up after getting engaged, and he admits that he still has feelings for her. Natalie expresses her exhaustion by worrying about their potential failings. They decide to try things out and eventually admit their feelings for each other.
Natalie’s projects in both realities lead to her achieving success. In the first, she follows a five-year plan and releases her movie despite not adhering to it. In the second, she finds happiness and love in both situations despite not following a plan. When Jake returns, following his voice mail to see her at the festival, they rekindle their romance.
Natalie’s story does not follow the traditional timeline of events.
Natalie is about to take a pregnancy test when the two very different realities merge. The first reality is her happy, carefree life with Ryan. The second reality is her past as a sorority girl and the night she was raped by her brother. As she approaches the mirror, Natalie assures herself that she is fine and that it’ll all be alright in the end, no matter what unfolds. ..
The movie’s message is that despite obstacles and available options, situations will always manage to work themselves out.
Natalie faces difficulties in both types of realities. In addition to having fundamentally different struggles, Natalie’s five-year plan is abandoned in both cases for different reasons.
Natalie’s journey is unique in that she uses both her life experiences to pursue her ultimate goal of becoming an artist. Despite living in two different realities, Natalie still succeeds in achieving her objective despite not having experienced the rejection of her idols.
Natalie’s experience with her positive pregnancy test has been fulfilling, despite the negative result. Her career and partner have both flourished, and her child has helped her develop as a journalist.
In a recent movie review, I found that the acting was good but the story was not.
