Run Lola Run
In a nutshell: Lola gets a call from her boyfriend Mani,
telling her he’s lost 100,000 Marks he was meant to deliver to a criminal. He
has 20 minutes to front up with the money, so Lola tells him to wait at the
phone booth as she will get the money for him. So she runs… heading out the
door and running flat-out across the city of Berlin, Germany. What follows are three
alternate scenarios, each with different outcomes, as Lola furiously does all
she can to come up with the money. Along the way she bumps into several key
people in her life and strangers on the street, setting off a series of events
that play with the ideas of chance vs. action.
What was different/original about
it? Straight out
of Germany, this off-beat and
original little movie swept the world and captivated audiences in almost every
country on the planet. Filmed with a combination of live-action, animation,
special effects, split screen images and an awesome soundtrack, Run
Lola Run took audiences on a mad dash through a series of unusual events. It
ditched the subtitles, replaced by English dubbing for it’s wider release, but
this works in it’s favour as there is so much happening on screen, it would be
hard to read any subtitles. The film plays with many themes and ideas, such as
fate, circumstance, chance encounters, greed, survival, love, family and
desperate decisions. The character of Lola is unlike any female heroine seen in
the movies before; she’s caring but aggressive, daring but cautious,
spontaneous but tactful and all at the same time. This movie is a fast-paced,
high-octane and surreal experience, and you’ve probably never, or ever will see
anything else like it.
How did it changes movies? Run Lola Run was so originally entertaining and
appealing to such a vastly wide audience, that it broke down the walls of
International Cinema. Occasionally, a foreign film sneaks into several overseas
markets and gets viewed by countries who would otherwise never see it. This
film went all over the world, taking it’s unusual but relatable premise of a
girl just trying to help our her boyfriend, but told in a way
that didn't bind it to any particular nation or culture. It was
nominated for and won multiple awards across numerous different categories and
festivals, showing that sometimes “the little film that could” can make a
bigger splash than expected, silence the cynics, convert the pessimists and
garner an audience that can’t be defined by which country you’re from.
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