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Sliding Doors
1998 · Film · 99 min
Directed by Peter Howitt
Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she runs down, her life suddenly splits off. In one version she catches the train; in the second, she misses it. Her whole life changes in that one second, and the rest of the film depicts what happens in each scenario.
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To my recollection "sliding doors" was already a meme (in the Dawkins sense). The movie was based on that. I swear I remember explaining to my then girlfriend the term, as I'd read it on the internet?
Wikipedia says the term came from the movie. Obviously the idea didn't; but it's my recollection wrong or can anyone show that Wikipedia is wrong here?
I guess a search on Usenet archives might find something?
Sliding Doors the movie comes to mind
Probably wouldn’t change a thing.
Everything that has happened to me; good and bad, has made me who I am today.
I’m cool with that. I’ve had a pretty big share of bad, and there’s lots of folks who think I “haven’t lived up to my potential,” meaning that I didn’t give them what they wanted from me.
At this stage in my life, I am strangely satisfied. Never thought I’d be happy, the way I am, but it’s a funny old world.
It could have turned out a lot worse. I am truly blessed.
Reminds me of Sliding Doors. Interesting movie.
Commonly known as the butterfly effect or a sliding door https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_doors_moment
Watch the Sliding Doors movie. A curious movie where you can see how one little change dramatically alters the course of (Gwyneth Paltrow's) life in a vivid way.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/