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Contains disturbing images and theme of death
Depressed photographer Nick (William McInnes) watches his life fly past from birth to terminal illness in a supersonic, three-second montage; artist Meryl (Justine Clarke) has an imagination that turns incidents from The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook into animated anxieties. Welcome to the world of Look Both Ways, a quirkily morbid Aussie comedy that throws Nick and Meryl together after a train derailment. Convinced life is for living not for dying, it's a gentle reminder that the clock's always ticking.
Set over a hot weekend in Adelaide, Sarah Watt's debut feature starts with a series of unfortunate events: Meryl buries her father then witnesses a train accident. Press snapper Nick get's diagnosed with testicular cancer, or "Cancer cancer" as his best buddy Andy (Anthony Hayes) puts it. Meanwhile, Andy's on/off (but mostly off) girlfriend Anna (Lisa Flanagan) has just found out she's preggers.
"FULL OF WRY HUMOUR"
Animator Sarah Watt's live action debut weaves a multi-strand story into a delicate ensemble piece. Full of wry humour about living life in the shadow of death, it's an offbeat little movie backed up by some amusing animated interludes in which Meryl's anxieties revert into childish nightmares (monsters in the woods, baby-munching killer whales). Lapses in judgement occasionally jar - like the habit of playing middle of the road ballads over key scenes - but the central romance is touching enough to lock us in while bringing out the moral of this story. Even when you do look both ways, life will always contrive to whack you from behind.
