Film review "Look both ways"

The film "Look both ways" is an Australian movie about peoples lives that entwine around death and dealing with death. The principal cast and characters, William McInnes (Nick) and Justine Clarke (Meryl) lives fuse after Robs death on the train tracks, even before that, these characters were dealing with the witnessing of Robs death, Meryl was dealing with her fathers death, and Nick was dealing with the fact that he has cancer and there is a chance that he could die. Sarah Watts carefully weaves their lives together in which they find themselves in life changing moments in their lives.

The movie constantly revolves about death even when new life is one of the topics in the film. Nick's workmate Anthony Hayes (Andy) has two children from the previous marriage, and has a problem with an unplanned pregnancy with his girlfriend. Andy's life is all about his reporting, but his reporting isn't very good in the film. The unplanned pregnancy was a new life that was to come into this world but, it could interfere with their lives that they were living, so abortion was one of the options that Lisa Flanagan (Anna) put forward. Death also surrounds new life in the movie until the rain comes pouring down as a symbol of cleansing. This is a very notable symbol in the movie because thats when all the characters in the movie have a fresh start to a new life without any attachment to the past e.g. Andreas Sobik (the train driver) "I'm the train driver, I'm sorry" Daniella Jarinacci (Julia) "it wasn't your fault" and with that, the rain pours down in the background, and the train diver can now put this behind him, similarly, Julia can get on with her life.

The lives of Nick and Meryl in the movie, having met after the accident by chance, and the conversation they have surrounded death, hers was about the picture he took that day, and his was about the picture of the sea she painted and the person in the picture drowning, and the sharks are about to eat him. Both these characters continuously have visions or images of death flashing through their head, even in the most intimate part of the movie, they think about death and a key factor it played in their lives. This key factor drew them together because they both have to deal with the same problem, death.