Run Lola Run Essay

Winner of the Audience and Best film award at the Sundance Film Festival Best film Best Supporting Actress Best Supporting Actor, Best Director at the German Film Festival, Bambi Award among many other. Run Lola Run is set against the grungy urban scene scape of Berlin with an intensive bass driven techno soundtrack composed by writer and director Tom Tykwer. Run Lola Run is pounding with kinetic energy and a case of Red Bull, like a marathon inside a rave inside a fusion reactor. This moving not only takes hold of your senses in the way of a roller coaster but hypnotizing you your brain and spirit with tripping free form flashes of anticipation, panic, passion, desperation, hesitation, fear and fervor that is at once utterly exhilarating
In the first one, a stationary Manni is shown at the Bolle store while a fast-moving Lola is still trying to reach him before he enters the store to steal the money. In the second one, Manni is placed on the left frame and Lola on the right one; slowly, a horizontal third scene showing a clock is introduced from below, thus creating a three-way split scene. In the third split scene one views, to the left, a blurry medium-shot of Manni looking at a clear full shot of Lola in the distance; and to the right, a blurry medium shot of Lola looking at a clear full shot of Manni. In the fourth split scene, one sees a reverse angle medium shot of Manni to the left and a frontal medium shot of Lola to the right. The right frame (which contains the image of Lola) then shifts to the left and wipes the left frame (which contains Manni's image). Although this wipe will have disastrous consequences for one of the main characters, the vertical split scenes also join momentarily the lovers, who are otherwise spatially and temporally removed from each other. The horizontal intrusions of a clock in the split scenes add stress and suspense to the ongoing situations. In this fashion, the camera attempts to capture all possible angles and positions before repeating the pattern