My favourite movie used to be Sliding Doors. It still might be, but that's not what matters here. I loved it because it played out two versions of how things could go. In one, main character Helen makes her train. In the other, she does not. The audience toggles between these versions of her life; encouraged to build what we intuit is a faulty allegiance to one of them. The life we root for is too easy. We grasp this, even as we cheer for it.

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