Look Both Ways

"Look Both Ways" is directed by Wanuri Kahiu and written by April Prosser. It is centered around Natalie (Lili Reinhart), who has formed a five-year plan ...

They go into the bathroom, look into the mirror, and reassure themselves that everything is going to be okay. The events of the film are just Natalie (the original version who is waiting for her results) playing out the two scenarios in her head. One, it’s just the movie’s way of saying that “look how far Natalie has come in both of the realities.” Or two, it hints at the existence of a third reality where Natalie is going to do something radically different, but she’s going to turn out okay as well. After finishing it, they submit it to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival, in the hopes that someone is going to pick it up and finance it. They re-realize that their true calling is their artwork, and that’s the only thing that is going to make their respective lives better again. While scrolling through her Instagram feed, she finds out that one of her old friends, Nicole (Ashlyn Anderson Gomez), is having a baby shower and that Gabe is engaged in this reality (not to Nicole, BTW). Everything continues to go relatively well until she realizes that Lucy isn’t interested in her work as an animator, and she only wants her to fetch the coffee. But after her trip to the OB/GYN and learning that she and Gabe are having a girl, her mood starts to look up. Soon after that, Natalie cuts her vacation short after getting a call from Rosie and learning that she has spent a whole night under a sitter’s supervision instead of Gabe’s. And in the other reality, she does get pregnant and goes to her parents, Tina (Andrea Savage) and Rick (Luke Wilson), with Gabe to raise the child. Gabe moves into his own space and gives Natalie the offer to move in there with Rosie. Later, after listening to how Cara is living her life in L.A., she starts to show signs of depression because she thinks she is losing out on the life she had planned for herself.

Natalie (Lili Reinhart) has her five-year plan down to a science. First, she'll move to Los Angeles with her effervescent bestie Cara (Aisha Dee), ...

The dishonesty that comes along with that timidity is a much tougher pill to swallow than the truths that might have arisen otherwise. Despite this, it should be emphasized that Look Both Ways is still your boilerplate Netflix rom-com—and because of that, it’s a lot of fun to watch. apartment, which the girls make a point to describe as a shithole (justice for a CGI roach!). Still, it is undeniably bizarre for a 2022 film that sees its career-driven protagonist become pregnant to not even mention abortion in any tangible way. But at the very least, the script could have offered us a reason as to why that was the choice she made—or even simply hinted that it took a day or two of deliberation. When, in Look Both Ways’ second scenario, Natalie decides to carry the baby to term, her choice feels wildly forced and out of character, to put it lightly.

Of course, it's the movie everyone is currently watching and talking about. The romantic drama stars Lili Reinhart as a young woman named Natalie whose life on ...

Therefore, you can apply for a position and visit Pixar Animation Studios in real life. However, Pixar is an actual animation company in California. No, Tall Story Animation is not a real company. It’s supposed to look like a real animation company. Lucy Galloway works as the Art Director at Tall Story Animation and is Natalie’s idol. Natalie eventually gets the assistant job at Tall Story Animation but doesn’t find herself elevating since Lucy doesn’t see her as an artist.

The movie was written before Roe was overturned, but director Wanuri Kahiu and star Lili Reinhart have said in interviews that it's pro-choice.

Of course, in true romcom fashion, Natalie does end up with her respective men in both universes, reminding us that in the end, what really matters is that a woman is validated by male attention. The two universes that Natalie’s life diverge into are not hinged on her choice of whether or not to keep the pregnancy, but on whether or not there is a pregnancy to take into consideration at all—remember, in the second universe, Natalie is simply embryo-free, and her pregnancy scare is just that. to follow her dreams, Natalie’s shares a view of her life that’s nothing short of a bummer. Whether it’s intentional or not, for most of the movie, its message is that women have to choose between having children or a career. Her parents, who are initially livid about the news (to a comical degree), take for granted that she is going to keep the child, knowing full well that it’ll derail their plans (a trip to Barcelona) and their daughter’s (building a career in her 20s). In one reality, she gets pregnant, moves back in with her parents in Texas, and becomes a mom.

This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film Look Both Ways (2022), which will contain spoilers and major plot points.

This movie is just so refreshing and heartwarming because it just forces us to sit with our decisions and think of them in such a positive manner. There is no way of knowing if you’re making the right choices and that’s why it’s better to keep rolling with the punches. It’s so heartwarming because it was fate that brought her to that house at that moment just to give her a little life check-in.

The Netflix romantic comedy features the actor pursuing parallel life paths in a ruminative, if not particularly dramatic, Sliding Doors-esque plot.

(In one of the movie’s most touching and unexpected scenes, her mother explains what postpartum depression is—it simply hasn’t occurred to Natalie that hormonal shifts are doing a number on her.) Before long, she settles into the groove of motherhood, and there’s no doubt that she loves her daughter. It’s also possible that anti-abortion proselytizers could seize on Look Both Ways to make the point that having the child is always the best way, the only way—but that’s not how the filmmakers present Natalie’s decision. For one thing, it’s impossible to ignore the reality that mom-Natalie gets to raise her child in a beautiful house with doting, helpful grandparents on call whenever necessary. [romantic comedy](https://time.com/5864534/unique-rom-coms/) Look Both Ways, a suggestion that no life choice is ever the wrong one—everything depends on what you do with that choice. On the way to getting that job, she meets a cute guy, Jake (David Corenswet), and after becoming friends, they embark on a tentative but promising romantic relationship. Then Natalie hits a bump in the road: Lucy informs her that her drawings are derivative, that she needs to find her own style.

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With the possibility of aching loneliness fast approaching, they soon realize their shared jealousy and inability to move forward and conceive a devious and sinister plan to end their partners' respective relationships - with the hopes of a last-ditch attempt to win them back. On their last evening as a couple, Claire and Aidan find themselves reminiscing and retracing the steps of their relationship which leads them to familiar and noticeable landmarks, unpredicted places which cause them to question certain things. The trailer starts with Natalie taking two pregnancy tests on the night of her graduation. Rather than seeking love out, Henry Page (Austin Abrams) focuses a large chunk of his energy on scoring good grades with the hopes of getting into a decent college and becoming the chief editor of the school newspaper. She is known for her role as Betty Cooper in Riverdale and as Annabelle in the crime comedy-drama film Hustlers. So you'll be able to watch the film from the comfort of your own home. She is popular for her role as Andrea Warren in the TV series I’m Sorry. Aisha Dee is famous for her role as Kat Edison in The Bold Type. If her test turns out to be positive, Natalie would move back to her hometown of Austin, Texas with Gabe where she would start a family. If the result of her test is negative, she is off to Los Angeles with her best friend to take a job under her idol and icon Lucy Galloway. The film follows the life of soon-to-be college graduate Natalie who reaches a defining point in her life when an intended fun hookup with a college friend leads to her taking a pregnancy test at a party. Kahiu is also the brains behind the first Kenyan film to screen at the Cannes Films Festival Rafiki.

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Now, it seems more like Netflix's midbudget rom-coms are not, in fact, the streaming service's answers to When Harry Met Sally or Notting Hill, but to the kind ...

The scene is well-performed by both Long and Reinhart, but it also feels like the fairy tale version of what Lucy and Natalie’s conversation would actually be. Instead, Look Both Ways allows Natalie to walk through two versions of her life that not only end up being only slightly different from each other, but also feel frustratingly cushioned and safe from beginning to end. Meanwhile, in the latter, she is able to stick to her original post-college plan and move to Los Angeles with her best friend, Cara (Aisha Dee), in order to pursue a career as a Hollywood animator. Throughout the scene, Lucy tells Natalie that she isn’t ready to become a filmmaker because she hasn’t found her own artistic voice yet, and she advises her to quit her assistant job in order to find the space necessary to do so. Instead, the film becomes a shockingly sluggish affair near the end of its first act, which is when April Prosser’s script begins to focus more on Natalie’s two romances than her own personal journeys. The film predictably struggles to balance its two storylines, but the biggest problem with Look Both Ways is how it constantly sanitizes Natalie’s alternate lives. Unfortunately, despite Reinhart’s likable work as its lead, the film also invests far too much time into Natalie’s one-note relationships with Jake and Gabe, which prevents it from digging too deeply into its lead character’s important emotional and mental journeys. In the former, Natalie moves back to Texas to live with her parents before she gives birth to her and Gabe’s daughter. Nowadays, the only thing that Netflix’s original rom-coms seem to have a leg up on movies like A Gingerbread Romance or Battle of the Bulbs is their ability to attract talent that would usually be too good for such overly saccharine, easy material. The disappointing quality of Look Both Ways, the streaming service’s new Wanuri Kahiu-directed romantic dramedy, doesn’t do anything to dispute that criticism, either. Now, it seems more like Netflix’s midbudget rom-coms are not, in fact, the streaming service’s answers to When Harry Met Sally or Notting Hill, but to the kind of formulaic TV movies that the Hallmark and Lifetime channels continue to churn out. But once upon a time (i.e., 2018 and 2019), films like Set It Up, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and Always Be My Maybe had seemingly everyone convinced that Netflix was going to deliver the long-awaited wave of new rom-com classics that the entertainment industry’s other major studios were choosing not to produce.

Natalie's life is in two different realities and the people around her are super important to her future. The entire cast including Lili Reinhart, Danny Ramirez ...

The issue is what would be more interesting to the audience? Natalie’s life is in two different realities and the people around her are super important to her future. Look Both Ways (2022) shows Natalie (Lili Reinhart) on the eve of her college graduation.

Considering over the past year Marvel and sci-fi films have dominated multiverse narratives, it's about time the alternate storyline gets a rom-com ...

I basically could tell in the room I wasn’t going to go any further because of how either unimpressed the casting director looked or you just say to yourself, “Oh, that didn’t go the way I wanted it to.” This acting world is very brutal. How am I supposed to grow from this? It’s a very hard thing to pick up your life and go. I wish I could have walked the stage with the people I spent my whole life growing up in school with but it’s fine. I didn’t go to prom or anything like that, but I told myself that’s OK, I’ll be able to wear a bunch of pretty dresses in the future when I’m on red carpets. I do have a longing to go back. That’s what Natalie did so I saw that side of myself within her as a character. Regarding “Look Both Ways,” one of the Natalies plans on moving to Los Angeles. My parents are there now so when I go home I go there. I have a lot of nostalgic feelings. The aspiring animator’s life diverges into parallel realities involving getting pregnant as opposed to having a pregnancy scare. We moved to North Carolina when I was 16.

The Gist: Natalie (Reinhart) and Gabe (Danny Ramirez, one of the non-Cruise guys in Top Gun: Maverick) are Just Friends. Just Very Close Psychologically ...

This is a well-meaning and pretty greeting card of a movie, one of the sincere cards, not one that’s too flowery or religious, or one of the ones that are goofy and say the giver farted inside of it or something. But the potholes in her road of life are at least universally relatable to many of us in a vague kind of way, you know, parenthood is hard, careers are hard, relationships and feelings are hard. She and Gabe remain platonic through the pregnancy and birth and the no-sleep and the exploding-diaper stage and a few subsequent years (their little girl’s name is Rosie) but how long is that not-kissing-each-other thing gonna last? That choice and divergent path is a different movie, just like the one that splits off from when she and Gabe decide to not make whoopie. The movie layers in montages with the generosity one usually reserves for frosting a four-year-old’s birthday cake. It’s full of good advice and truisms for its main character, such as, “You’re going to have to ask for what you want” and “You’re so lucky you have something to love.” Sometimes the conflicts Natalie faces carry all the dramatic weight of having poured a little too much cream in your coffee, a problem solved by simply adding a little more coffee to the cup. They’re frequently intermingled in montages that hold the movie together like the superglue you took to Grandma’s ashtray after you were roughhousing and knocked it off the davenport. She’s locked in the bathroom with bestie Cara (Aisha Dee) and a pregnancy test. The Gist: Natalie (Reinhart) and Gabe (Danny Ramirez, one of the non-Cruise guys in Top Gun: Maverick) are Just Friends. and has a tour sponsor in spite of that, does the sweetest, rightest thing and supports her every step of the way, giving up his life on the road. And it’s not just a rom-dram-com – it’s a gimmicky rom-dram-com in which Reinhart plays two versions of herself diverging into parallel universes from a single point in time. They’re on the verge of graduating from the University of Texas at Austin; they have a buzz on; they look each other in the eyes; and, well.

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What’s meant to be will always find a way.” what would happen if you could actually see where both roads take you?” A third chimed in: “Look both ways” on Netflix was such a good movie to me.

The rom-com movie follows the story of Reinhart's Natalie, who on the night of her college graduation decides to hook up with her close friend Gabe (palyed by ...

Ultimately, Gabe and Natalie decide to give a romantic relationship a shot, and both get the 'happy ever after' they deserve. Ultimately, in both timelines, things turn out great for Natalie, she falls in love and gets the career she has always dreamed of. If a sequel was to take place, there are a few avenues the movie could go down. In the timeline with Gabe, together they raise their daughter and have a happy little family. In the other world, Natalie moves to L.A. to pursue her career as an artist and falls in love with hot-shot artist Jake (David Corenswet).

As a way to cram two mediocre rom-coms into a single movie, Netflix original production Look Both Ways has the life of main character Natalie...

The friendship between Natalie and Cara is as thinly developed as the romances. Natalie's pregnancy is the only convincing evidence of any sexual connection between her and her two paramours. She takes a pregnancy test, and the movie follows her as she deals with both possible outcomes.

It all started when Natalie had to take a pregnancy test on their graduation day at the University of Texas. The day called for celebration, but Natalie could ...

Natalie was not a risk-taker but rather someone who would prefer to find happiness in what she had and in the hope of not jinxing it. Gabe performed at the festival; he was a seasoned drummer and married in one reality, whereas in the other, he was starting his career as a drummer and was completely in love with Natalie. Perhaps it was her desperate move to go to the party that changed her luck, and she got her dream job. She lacked originality, and Lucy wanted her to find her voice, even if that meant quitting her job. Gabe and Natalie weaved funny stories about the life of a little night owl who had several responsibilities on her shoulders that forbade her from sleeping. She was desperate to make her dream come true, and the party would allow her to showcase her talent to Lucy, the creative head of the animation studio. She had to disclose her pregnancy to her parents, and she started to live with them. One was her life after the test indicated that she was not pregnant, and the other was after the test read positive. She was determined about her future, but she was ready to give it all away for the baby she was carrying. She never wanted to have a romantic relationship with him, not because she was not interested in him, but rather because she feared losing him. She was living the dream and checking the boxes of her five-year plan. Natalie’s life is split into two; in one, she pursues her dream, and in the other, she chooses to take a detour.

Lili Reinhart plays a recent college graduate in "Look Both Ways" whose life diverges on two parallel universes after she learns she is pregnant.

[outspoken](https://www.glamour.com/story/lili-reinhart-explains-why-she-came-for-kim-kardashian) as Reinhart, who also served as an executive producer on the project, is not what we need right now. In [this](https://www.glamour.com/package/roe-v-wade-overturned-what-comes-next) socio-political climate? [pregnancy](https://www.glamour.com/about/pregnancy) drama?

They also talk finding their creative voices when they get drowned out. Lili-Reinhart-Danny-Ramirez-Look-Both-Ways-Interview-.

And then, obviously, when Gabe and Natalie have that moment on the bridge, I love that line, when you say, "Finally," and you have a little glisten in your eye. RAMIREZ: I think it was the one that was, "Finally. Because I do feel that I published it before I was ready. Before it was ready, before I was ready. I found that inspiring, and that was a story that I wanted to tell. And I think that, in and of itself, just got my attention of like "Oh I guess if I wouldn't be where I'm at right now, and the other possibility that sometimes I think, I just got lucky; when I think of the other version, I'm like, "Who knows what luck would've been on the other road as well, and what that would've been like?" And that was what was really special to me. Have the two of you ever had that kind of moment where you felt like your voice was getting lost in the shuffle, in everyone else's voice? And I think in this one, I love that it did play with it into, "No matter what happened, you're good. I love the way it plays with the question of, "What if?" In this interview with Collider, Reinhart and Ramirez talk about what drew them to the project, and how they found hope and comfort in the idea that no single path in life is the only one that leads to where they want to go. Is that question what attracted you to the project?

The film follows a college graduate named Natalie (played by Riverdale star Lili Reinhart) whose life is split into two parallel timelines, all hinging on one ...

In Texas, she writes a children’s book inspired by her daughter, it gets some traction, and she gets invited to speak on a panel at SXSW. So, in both timelines, she gets to go to SXSW! In LA, she puts together a short animated film and submits it to the South by Southwest, and it gets accepted. Meanwhile, in the Texas timeline, Natalie is dealing with pregnancy, as well as living with her parents (Andrea Savage and Luke Wilson). In LA, Natalie manages to get a job as an assistant to a big-deal animator she admires, Lucy (Nia Long). Just before she graduates, Natalie has a night of casual, no-strings-attached sex with her friend Gabe (played by Danny Ramirez).

Netflix's Look Both Ways movie starring Lili Reinhart refuses to acknowledge abortion as an option for the main character.

Wade, the star responded, “This isn’t an abortion story movie, but it is a movie about a woman who had the opportunity to make a choice, and the choice was made on her own volition and it ended up being a beautiful decision for her because she was able to make it.” You can help but wonder what the movie might have been had Natalie’s parallel universes hinged not on a pregnancy test, but on her decision to have the baby. The rest of the movie is spent demonstrating that Natalie can live a successful, fulfilling life with or without a child. The father of her unborn child—the only one to bring up abortion when he haltingly assures Natalie he is “pro-your-choice”—says he’ll support her either way. In fact, beyond a cursory allusion to a character being “pro-choice,” the concept is all but completely ignored. In one timeline, Natalie’s pregnancy test is negative, which she responds to with palpable relief, ecstatic joy, and a whole lotta shots.

The latest romantic comedy to hit Netflix is Look Both Ways, starring Danny Ramirez, an endearing story that shows the parallel reality of the same life.

He will also join The Walking Dead universe as he stars in an episode of the new spinoff Tales of the Walking Dead. He joined the MCU in the role of Joaquin Torres in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series. He has also starred in Orange is the New Black, The Gifted, Assassination Nation, On My Block, Tone-Deaf, No Exit and Valley Girl. The first monologue he ever memorized was for his Tisch audition. It is a unique twist that draws the viewer in to see which life story will play out the best. He wasn’t large enough for football, so he began playing soccer, where he sustained injuries that would see his dream come to an end.