pc95 Review of Look Both Ways

Look Both Ways (2005)

Good Character Development, Awful Music Video Scenes

[6/10 · 14 December 2008]

Yet another movie that gets points taken away from awful music video scenes. Music is in a movie to enhance the movie, NOT TAKE THE PLACE OF A MOVIE. This has become quite a poor trend unfortunately. Look Both Ways has some good introspective dialog and genuine humor and insightful intelligence built into it's script. It's characters are well put together. But no sooner do we finish a compelling and interesting scene, we (the audience) are rudely interrupted by soundtrack, clumsy and meaningless, blaring in as if trying to fill a void that isn't really there to begin with. Unfortunately this seems to be more of a norm with many contemporary movies. "Since we cant think of interesting ways to cut to another scene, lets just throw in a sappy, folksy, and unintelligent music video. As if images themselves don't convey enough. (spoilers) The cutaway or added animation was interesting but directors should give more thought to their soundtracks and especially how they're employed - better editing needed.