Look Both Ways (2022) Review

On the eve of her college graduation Natalie is about to see her life split into parallel realities all resting on the results of a pregnancy test! We see the different events her life takes for if she is pregnant and has a baby and the other where she doesn’t and her original plans take place!

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Natalie’s two possible life scenarios are shown side by side throughout the film. What it would have been like with Gabe, the father of her child and having to move back with her parents (who were not very nice people at times I must add). Then the dream life of moving to LA with her best friend Cara, to pursue her passion of becoming an animator.

It all flows at a good pace and we see the different choices she gets to make in both worlds, while this all has an impact on Natalie as a person. At times though she does get a little irritating but I guess that gives off a real feel to it all, as I was a bit like oh why has she done that. Then remembered that I actually feel the same towards myself and my own life decisions.

I will admit that with Look Both Ways I hit a point quite early on where I thought about just turning it off, as thought it was going to be pretty generic in this type of rom-com setting. However, I was then really happy that I stuck with it as I felt as though some of the issues raised throughout the film and both stories were actually very deep! In the way that while her life was obviously very different with a baby/child and then without one she still went through struggles in both for different reasons! Work was never easy and neither were relationships, so the main thing I actually took from all of that was that it is not straightforward to know what will actually end up making you happy. Or how you can be successful, you will have bad and horrendous times but you will also have good times as well. Each direction of her life will take her to different stages and places at different times, so don’t be so hard on yourself all of the time.

Yes, I really was not expecting to get that much out of this film either. Maybe, just maybe this was the film I had to watch and remind myself that you don’t have to have certain things by certain stages for your life to mean anything!

Lili Reinhart, Danny Ramirez, Aisha Dee and David Corenswet are all really good together and offer a good balance across both possible lives. This really is a decent Netflix original film with an updated version of Sliding Doors.