The 180 degree rule problem

Towards the end of the music video, to finish the narrative we wanted right from the start for the lead male to be on one side of the door and the girl on the other. Followed shortly by him opening the door to reveal the girl was going to open it to, hinting their mutual agreement ti stay together. To illustrate this we had always planned on using a match cut to show them on either side of the door. Here are the two shots as they appear in consecutive order:

While these shots look great when put next to each other and do exactly what they're meant to, we did run into one slight problem with them, this problem is regarding the 180 degree rule. Learning this last year we were told that if two characters are seen to be interacting to each other then there should be a figurative line directly between them, essentially going from one character's eye to the other's. To keep the viewer from having to think about what character is which the 180 degree rule keeps the character associated with a side of the screen, making it easier to identify. To achieve this the camera should never cross over this line between the characters. While these shots don't look like they're breaking the rule; they do. Here is a diagram to show why.

The orange line linking the two cameras clearly shows that they are on the wrong sides of the line, and thus, are breaking the rule. This leads to the match cut to being technically incorrect. However the solution to this was to digitally flip one of the videos horizontally and instead of having a match cut, it's just a plain cut between the two, which doesn't look as nice, but is technically correct. As group we had a discussion about the problem and we decided we wanted the shots to look nice, regardless of the obvious blunder. So in the name of art over technicality, we kept the shot as it was.