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Run Lola Run

            
             The film " Run Lola Run " starts with the "X file cinema " logo, after this the film goes to a black screen with a pendulum swinging across it, time will be a key motif in the film. The credits role behind the pendulum and music starts playing; at first the music is orchestral. .
             In the credits we see photos of all the characters in the film with the actors names next to them. This is used as a device to familiarise and introduce the key players to the audience and fix their images in our mind. We are shown a quote from T.S Elliot that gives away little information of what is to come.
             The beginning if this film gives the viewer a lot of information, we have been introduced to the characters, and the soundtrack is modern and electronic with a driving breakbeat. It gives the audience an idea of the style and tone. The music adds pace to the film and is a driving force as we see Lola running through the streets of a German city.
             The camera spirals down and we are then led through a blurry crowd. We are shown the main characters. We then hear an omniscient narrator questioning life and the ideals of destiny and fate. This again highlights the key motifs and sets up expectations for issues that may be tackled later on.
             The camera leads to a security guard who features later on in the film. The security guard opens the film by talking about a football game. He then kicks the ball into the air as if signalling the start of a game and then shouts " here we go". The opening gives no information of plot or setting.
             The way the guard speaks makes it seem as if we are being taken on a journey. The camera follows the ball into the air and the people just seem like small flecks on the white background, they move to form the film's title. It is clear that this is not a scene from real time. The beginning of the film does not set up a sense of normality and differs greatly from the traditional Hollywood texts.


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1. Movie Summary - Run Lola Run

... , contrasting themes of causality, trial by error, and free will vs. determinism; as well as comparing the open-world sandbox depicted in Run Lola Run to an interactive video game. "Run Lola Run" starts off with a very simple premise. Lola gets off the phone with Manni and sets about trying to find 100,000 marks. We follow her to the supermarket, where she meets ... ". He "thrives in a post-modern, chaotic universe swayed mightily by every flap of a butterfly's wings held at ransom [by the] influential repercussions of the apparently inconsequential"" (Kosta). "Run Lola Run" offers three ...

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2. Run Lola Run

... in which every piece of music, cinematography, and effect is used to further the story line. Run Lola Run is such a film. The viewer is physically beaten by the driving techno beat, rushing along with the film's lead, Lola (Franka Potente), as she struggles to save her boyfriend Manni's (Moritz Bleibtreu) life; we ... medium is the driving force behind this MTV generation film. The plot unfolds as Manni misplaces a small fortune belonging to his boss, and calls upon Lola to find a way to replace the missing cash before noon, or else Manni's life will be cut short. The characters relive t...

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3. Run Lola Run - Concept of Reality

... transport between different points in time, and one would assume the multiple runs are based on an idea like this. After the end of each run, we get a hint that Lola does not return exactly to her initial state, and appears to carry some vague knowledge if her experience in the past runs. The most ... really challenges the concept of reality, whether such "theories" or such multiple runs are actually able to occur in the world we know today. In the final run that Lola goes through, the events that occur, the amount of luck, is seen to be too coincidental, and is something that is almost ...

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4. Narrative on Run Lola Run

Narrative Lola Narrative The movie "Run Lola Run" was written and directed by Tom Tykwer and stars Franka Potente as Lola, who needs to acquire 100,000 marks in 20 minutes to save her boyfriend's life. The German production company "X Filme" made this movie in 1998 and was released in America by Sony Pictures Classics. In the movie, Lola finds ... the affect that one person and one moment can have on somebody's life, no matter how insignificant the moment seems. Early in the film, Manni say to Lola, "Love can do anything." While this is clearly the explicit meaning of the movie, I believe tha...

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5. run lola run reflection

At first, I could not quite explain why I was so drawn to this movie. I liked it so much after my first viewing that I immediately borrowed its DVD so I can watch it over again. After my succeeding viewings (I watched it at least five times), I began to slowly realize why this film is just simply captivating. With its seemingly simple storyline of a girl trying to save her boyfriend's life, this film is actually all about life and its never-ending, relentless race against time. Human beings seem to be creatures of time. Everything we do is inevitably entirely connected with how much time we ha...

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6. Run lola run reflection

At first, I could not quite explain why I was so drawn to this movie. I liked it so much after my first viewing that I immediately borrowed its DVD so I can watch it over again. After my succeeding viewings (I watched it at least five times), I began to slowly realize why this film is just simply captivating. With its seemingly simple storyline of a girl trying to save her boyfriend's life, this film is actually all about life and its never-ending, relentless race against time. Human beings seem to be creatures of time. Everything we do is inevitably entirely connected with how much time we ha...

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7. Run Lola Run

After watching the film Run Lola Run I am in many ways reminded of the ripples on the surface of water when a rock is thrown into a lake. I feel this movie has enlightened me to a number of different ... we make ultimately decide our destiny. When a pebble is thrown into a lake, ripples branch out all around into a much larger area than that of the pebble. Comparatively, through Lola's continuous striving, you can see the each time she deliberately alters a simple action in her life a significant change occurs. For example, in one case when she tripped over the ... the example of ripples i...

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8. Run Lola Run

After watching the film Run Lola Run I am in many ways reminded of the ripples on the surface of water when a rock is thrown into a lake. I feel this movie has enlightened me to a number of different ... we make ultimately decide our destiny. When a pebble is thrown into a lake, ripples branch out all around into a much larger area than that of the pebble. Comparatively, through Lola's continuous striving, you can see the each time she deliberately alters a simple action in her life a significant change occurs. For example, in one case when she tripped over the ... the example of ripples i...

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9. Lola Rennt

... the desk's seat. Then, as a result of the film's completion, he had our jaws dropped, our minds racing, and, perhaps most importantly, our overwhelming approval. The most appealing aspect of Lola Rennt, at least in my personal opinion, was the great emphasis placed on both time itself and the timing of certain events. After Manni mistakenly leaves a bag of payment money ... enough so that the happenings that unfold either in her wake or her presence never seem to produce the same results. For example, during one of these three instances Lola opts to run straight across a courtyard, wher...

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