“ Look Both Ways ” is directed by Wanuri Kahiu and written by April Prosser. It's centered around Natalie( Lili Reinhart), who has formed a five-time plan to come to a successful animator. But a one-night stage with one of her stylish musketeers, Gabe( Danny Ramirez), puts a big question mark on that future. On her scale night, as Natalie waits for her gestation test, her life divides into two realities. In one reality, she doesn’t get pregnant and moves toL.A. with her other stylish friend, Cara( Aisha Dee). 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. Kahiu, with the help of photographer Alan Caudillo, editor Brad Leach, product developer Keith Brian Burns, art director Christy Gray, and costume developer Colin Wilkes, does a good job of contemporaneously unraveling the two realities. Still, in case you had a hard time figuring it out, let’s look at them collectively and talk about them.
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What Happens To The Interpretation Of Natalie Who Gets Pregnant?
After getting to Natalie’s parents ’ house( which is home to one of the numerous funny scenes in the movie), Gabe proposes to Natalie to get wedded. Yes, he's intruded on by Tina and Rick. But Natalie technically rejects him as she wants them to beco-parents to their child rather than being a wedded couple. latterly, after harkening to how Cara is living her life inL.A., she starts to show signs of depression because she thinks she's losing out on the life she had planned for herself. But after her trip to the OB/ GYN and literacy that she and Gabe are having a girl, her mood starts to look up. She starts using her art to paint her son’s room, and her relationship with Gabe and her parents begins to develop.
One day, Natalie goes into labor, and Gabe caringly takes her to the sanitarium, where they're joined by Tina and Rick. The delivery goes as easily as deliveries go, and everyone smiles at little Rosie. But after scrolling through Instagram and seeing how well Cara is doing, Natalie hits another wall as she thinks that being a mama is consuming her whole life. Thanks to Gabe, Tina, and Rick, however, she mentally overcomes that chain and goes on to celebrate Rosie’s half-time birthday. Gabe moves into his own space and gives Natalie the offer to move by there with Rosie. still, she rejects that as they promised to not be a couple. She indeed tells him to start dating again, and Gabe reluctantly accepts this suggestion. When Cara comes to visit Natalie, she admits that she got overwhelmed and she has meddled effects up with Gabe.
Many times latterly, during a regale party, Gabe invites his rearmost gal, Miranda( Amanda Knapic), to join him. That throws Natalie out, but she realizes that she has to accept that Gabe is seeing other people. So, to reuse this paradigm shift, she takes a holiday to L.A. to stay with Cara and let Rosie stay with Gabe. She runs into Jake( David Corenswet) at an eatery and shows egregious signs of chemistry. Soon after that, Natalie cuts her holiday short after getting a call from Rosie and learning that she has spent a whole night under a babysitter’s supervision rather than Gabe’s. She arrives at Gabe’s house to make sure that Rosie’s okay and tells her to start packing. While Rosie is down, she berates Gabe and learns that the babysitter was Miranda’s family. And he couldn’t stay with Rosie because he proposed to Miranda, and that took a lot of time to wrap up.
What Happens To The Interpretation Of Natalie Who Doesn’t Get Pregnant?
The first thing that Natalie does after getting toL.A. is look for a job. She notices that Lucy Galloway( Nia Long), who's one of her favorite animators, is looking for a full-time adjunct. So, to make a good print ahead of her interview, she attends a party being thrown by Lucy’s vitality plant. She doesn’t find Lucy there. But she does find Jake, who helps her navigate through that party and is revealed to be a hand at Lucy’s company. With the help of some tips from him, Natalie gets the job. She starts going on dates with Jake and finds numerous parallels with him, especially their reliance on a five-time plan. Everything continues to go fairly well until she realizes that Lucy isn’t interested in her work as an animator, and she only wants her to cost the coffee.
Natalie and Jake go on a date and finalize the fact that they're a couple now. They start looking for a place where they can move in together. On the work side of effects, Jake goes through Natalie’s portfolio and urges her to present it to Lucy before she starts staffing up for her rearmost design. Natalie does exactly that, but Lucy tells her to just shoot the link to the portfolio and also proceeds to not check it out incontinently. As if that’s not disappointing enough, Jake reveals that he has entered the green light for a talkie design for which he has to go to Nova Scotia for six months or full time. Which means that they can’t move in together. But they promise to “ make it work ” as a long-distance relationship. And, well, due to bad events, it doesn’t go as well as one would anticipate it to.
To make matters worse, Lucy gives some horrifying feedback regarding Natalie’s work by calling it secondary to the style of the people she idolizes. That understandably breaks her heart, and when she tries to vent about it to Jake, she finds him distant( because he's on another mainland). So, they call it quits, and Natalie goes to her parents to stay there for a while. While scrolling through her Instagram feed, she finds out that one of her old musketeers, Nicole( Ashlyn Anderson Gomez), is having a baby shower and that Gabe is engaged in this reality( not to Nicole, BTW). She attends Nicole’s baby shower with Cara and becomes a little too apprehensive of the fact that she’s not doing veritably well now since she’s broke, single, and jobless. And she bails from the party, that too without Cara, who looks visibly dejected.
‘ Look Both Ways ’ Ending Explained Are The Two resemblant Lives Real Or commodity That She Imagines While staying For Her gestation Result?
After hitting the smallest of lows, the realities of the two performances of Natalie kind of begin to align. They realize that their true calling is their artwork, and that’s the only thing that's going to make their separate lives better again. For the sake of clarity, blue is the color of Natalie, which is a mama, and pink is the color of Natalie, which isn’t a mama, so allow me to call them Natalie Blue and Natalie Pink for the sake of clarity. So, fortified with the determination to come to a professional animator, Natalie Blue starts working on a ridiculous called “ Night Owl, ” and Natalie Pink starts working on an animated short called “ Indigo ”. After finishing it, they submit it to the South by Southwest( SXSW) Festival, in the expedient that someone is going to pick it up and finance it. And both Natalie Blue and Natalie Pink’s workshops are accepted for donation at SXSW.
Natalie Blue and Natalie Pink go out to present their work in their separate realities. Natalie Blue shares the stage with Lucy, who greatly appreciates her work. Natalie Pink walks into Gabe, who isn't just engaged, but also married in this reality, and is doing veritably well with his band. Natalie Blue attends Gabe’s performance, and that’s where she learns that Gabe and Miranda aren't together presently. Jake receives Natalie Pink’s voicemail and arrives at the SXSW jubilee while risking his job. They make amends and come to a couple again. After the webbing of “ Indigo, ” Natalie Pink runs into Lucy, who's now ready to offer her a new job. Natalie Pink readily accepts it. Natalie Blue and Gabe return to the ground where it all began and decide to give their relationship a proper pass now since both of them are single and stable.
Now, then’s where “ Look Both Ways ” gets a little tricky and nebulous. Natalie Pink and Natalie Blue return to the sorority house, while Gabe and Jake from their separate realities stay outdoors for them. They go into the restroom, look into the glass, and assure themselves that everything is going to be okay. And that’s when we get brief regard of an interpretation of Natalie who's still sitting there, staying for her gestation result. This can mean three effects. 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 actuality of a third reality where Natalie is going to do commodity radically different, but she’s going to turn out okay as well. Or three. The events of the film are just Natalie( the original interpretation who's staying for her results) playing out the two scripts in her head. What’s going to be to her is unknown. The only thing we know is that she’s going to make it through.
“ Look Both Ways ” is a 2022 Drama Romance Film directed by Wanuri Kahiu.