Look Both Ways Page #4

Synopsis: On a Friday after a horrific train crash, three newsmen in Adelaide must take stock: Nick, a photojournalist, learns he has cancer; Andy, a writer with two children who has a bad relationship with his ex, learns his girlfriend Anna is pregnant; Phil, an editor, realizes he's missing his children's growing up. That afternoon, Meryl, an artist who illustrates sympathy cards and constantly imagines disasters, witnesses a train accident kill a man. At the crash site, she meets Nick, and a relationship flowers over the next three days which makes them both question their lives, wants and needs. Nick's mother, Andy's kids and ex, the dead man's girlfriend, the driver of the train, and his son round out an ensemble of grief and sorrow as each character becomes linked to another through the train accident. Can decisions to act bring hope?
Director(s): Sarah Watt
Production: Kino International
  22 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PG-13
Year:
2005
100 min
Website
699 Views


you were there too.

I read your article today.

See the look on that girl's face?

And you write that maybe

the boyfriend killed himself

What would you know?

Not everyone's got an agenda.

- They don't?

- No.

Things just happen.

I have to go.

Just pretend you didn't even know.

I'm sorry,

I don't know what I've

been doing this weekend.

Sorry, I...

Sorry?

You're giving me the fling, aren't you?

Well, no.

It's just that I can't...

start anything.

I met you on Friday.

We slept together on Saturday.

You took me to meet

your mother on Sunday,

and you can't start anything.

That's the tightest

relationship I've ever had!

Bugger this!

And if you think I'm upset

because you don't want to see me,

well, how dare you! ?

Maybe I was going to say

"Thanks, but no bloody thanks!"

I don't need to spend my whole weekend,

my whole life being

polite to people like you

As the only thing stopping

me it's a god-damn...

bloody politeness hostage body gene

And then personally I'd found

a way to isolate that gene...

and breed it out so I could

tell people like you...

to piss-off!

Maybe I don't like you, or what you do.

I don't need your stupid

photos to keep reminding me...

all sh*t in the world.

I know it's awful.

Scares me stupid.

Scares everybody too

stupid to do anything.

My dad died two weeks ago.

Why isn't my picture on

the front of a paper?

Why isn't everybody who could lose

somebody on the front bloody page?

So what if I wanted you to like me?

Why is that such a crime?

What if it is shallow and stupid...

to be lonely and want

somebody to like you?

I just...

I'm not in a position...

To start anything right now.

Because I've just

found out I got cancer.

What?

What kind of a line is that?!

Cancer cancer?

You're dumping me because

you've got cancer.

Shouldn't I be dumping you,

if you got cancer?

Did you forget to take

garbage out again mate?

I'm fine.

What are you doing here?

What are you doing here?

What's the matter with you?

Well, I just got a fight with a girl.

The girl you interviewed about this guy.

Meryl...

I slept with her last night.

I just told her I have a cancer.

See got cross.

Why would you say you have a cancer?

I got cancer.

What have you got cancer for?!

Well, I don't know.

Cancer cancer?

What else sort of cancer there is?

What do you mean cancer-cancer?

I got cancer in my lungs,

cancer in my balls,

cancer in my legs, my arms, my brain.

Since when?

I don't know.

I found it on Friday.

Bloody hell, Nick.

You're going to be alright?

I don't know.

I'll find out more tomorrow.

Until tomorrow I don't know.

Sorry.

I'm the train driver.

I'm sorry.

It wasn't your fault.

It's meant to be!

Thanks Dad!

the survival of a 5 years old girl

pulled from the wreckage of the train

the child laid trapped in the rubble...

beside her dead grandmother

for nearly 3 days

Kathleen, who was treated for

shock and dehydration at the scene

was reunited with her relieved

and exhausted parents...

shortly after being

pulled from the wreckage

- Sorry.

- Sorry.

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Sarah Watt

Sarah Ann Watt (30 August 1958 – 4 November 2011) was an Australian film director, writer and animator. Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation) at the Swinburne Film and Television School (now Victorian College of the Arts), Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect the style of future work. In 1995, she directed a short film, Small Treasures, which won Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival. In 2000, she made a program for the SBS series Swim Between the Flags called "Local Dive". It was made concurrently with another project that she was directing called "The Way of the Birds" based on the 1996 book of the same name by author Meme McDonald. She received the Australian Film Institute's award for Best Director for her 2005 film Look Both Ways.Watt returned to the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television to teach animation and was to assist in the development of many animators including Academy Award winner Adam Eliot in 1996. Watt was instrumental in the development of scripts for all of her students, but left the School to further develop her own projects, returning on occasion as a script and final production assessor. Watt was also a published author, she wrote and illustrated the picture book Clem Always Could and co-authored Worse Things Happen at Sea with William McInnes.During the post-production of Look Both Ways, Watt was diagnosed with cancer. Her second film My Year Without Sex was released in 2009. She died on 4 November 2011 after suffering for six years with breast and bone cancer, aged 53.Sarah Watt was married to actor William McInnes. They have two children, Clem (b. 1993) and Stella (b. 1998). more…

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