RUN LOLA RUN

Run Lola Run



Run Lola Run

Introduction

“Run Lola Run” was also one of the biggest international success of German films of recent years and director Tom Tykwer, the passport to more expensive productions such as the recent “Heaven”. Equally original and flat, the film is good case study for German mass taste, but it probably reflected the young Germans and how they saw the world - or wanted to see better: As a computer game.

Discussion

"Run Lola Run" is an action film, but also a romantic love story, the one philosophical idea bears. It is a film about the possibilities of life, while entertaining and serious. The protagonist, Lola is a strong woman who exudes great energy , while her lover Manni not know exactly what he wants in life and a typical figure is here and now. The ambitious formal claim, which will recap the possibilities of cinematic imagery in a "race time" of 81 minutes shows, like in "Winter Sleepers" is already in an impressive credit sequence, the central elements of the film, people and time, visualized originally. With speed zoom, speed wipe, breathless camera movements (Tykwer veteran Frank Griebe in the normal class) and a fast-paced, but the overview is not from the eyes of the losing section (debut of editor Mathilde Bonnefoy). "Run Lola Run" set a pace, which is based on the deliberately minimalist plot (www.tomtykwer.com). Franka Potente, the discovery of "It's a Jungle" in a neo-punk look in the footsteps of Toyah, is the lively and passionate Lola, keep the 20 minutes to raise 100,000 marks. Her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu, "Knockin 'on Heaven's Door") is not lynched by a gangster (Heino Ferch as common baldness), because he will be leaving the coal in the underground to the delight of a bum (Costa, 2002, 165-177). Who can help me? Lola thinks according to hyper-speed while the camera circles around frantically and strung together their thoughts flash through your head. And then let go of Tykwer's Lola, she rushes through the summer in Berlin, almost detached from the world, a handful of passing figures, their immediate future in furious, seconds compressed biographical sketch sequences visible. Lola is sent three times each on the 20-minute adrenaline-trip to their wealthy father, with their stations remain constant, but can be varied and the situations they illustrative visual perspectives. Twice at the end of death, but this film celebrates the life and begins in a mix of "And Groundhog Day" and Alain Resnais' Smoking / No Smoking "the cycle (a" hibernating "motif) new (Bizzocchi, 2005, 1-8). The dialogue keeps Tykwer unpretentious simple, the characters remain sketches, which on the one hand, the approach requires the film, but also reflects the everyday hustle and bustle, the people (moored in a touching scene at the obvious to Armin Rohde bank clerk) behind the mask is not often can be seen. Upon arrival, shows up with "Run Lola Run" is one of most entertaining films of the year, the - open ...