Movie: Run Lola Run
Year: 1998
Director: Tom Tykwer
Language: German
Synopsis: The movie is pretty simplistic in its story line. Lola’s boy friend, Manni runs into deep shit at some point of time and needs urgent help with Money. Manni has to get the money within 20 minutes before his boss finds out, and plans to rob a nearby supermarket. Lola urges him to wait and tells him she will sort out the money.Lola won’t let the moment slip away and runs to save her Manni. The run ends with a dramatic closure. Lola wakes up to have another run at saving his boy friend only this time its Run 2. The outcome is like life: a result of the choices you make.
My own take: I remember having seen a Calvin n Hobbes strip long back where he moves about the whole house trying to zap people with a remote control. I know we all wished if it were true. If we could have saved our life at a specific point and gone back there and made different choices. Lesser heartbreaks, lesser pains and more control over “life”. However the fantasy that’s shown in Run Lola Run is the one we all want to live. Lola runs from her phone to the street to meet Manni and in between crashes with a lot of people and every time their response is different. However as the choices are different, the outcomes are different and more importantly the twists are different. The deep desire to have life as a video game where you die only to realize you have 2 additional lifes saved is the thrill. One of the rare films where the language is just not important to get into the skin of the movie.
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