In todays class we watched the second half of our film study - Run Lola Run.
In the second hallf of the film we are shown the two other alternative endings as the result of Lola's actions over her twenty minutes to find $100,000 for her boyfriend (Mani). The result of the second ending is that Mani ends up being run over by an ambulance - Lola robs the bank at which her father works by holding him hostage and requesting the $100,000, when Lola gets outside the police have surrounded the bank however they do not relate to her as being the bank robber letting her run free. When she arrives at the supermarket mani sees her and stands and watches her walk towards him. So overwhelmed Mani does not realise that he is in the middle of the road and is run over.
The third ending ends well for both Mani and lola - Mani finds the man who had the money he left on the train due to the guidance of a blind woman standing outside the phone booth he was in. Lola also manages to recieve $100,000 by gambling at the local casino. This way both get hold of the money in a legal matter and they have nothing to worry about.
Previous Situations - All of the situations in previous alternations result in the Mani and Lola being able to recieve the $100,000 as the characters can remember what happened previously. For example: Lola Remembers in the second situation how to work the safety on the gun she uses to hold her father hostage. Lola was shown how to work the safety during the first situation. Also the blind woman knew the thief of the money was about to ride past due to the previous situation.
Images - Images that stand out to me or that are important to the film are Lola running, Money, and the gun. These features are key points of the film.
My final thoughs of the film are that although at the begining it seemed a very strange film, everything has fallen into place and now it seems a quite interesting film especially because it uses film techniques not seen often.
I believe that this film has been chosen for our film study as it involves a large ammount of different film techniques including, slomo, CU shots, repetition, cross cuts, and cross cuts.
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Detailed response Cody - yes the film techniques that the director uses are definitely one of the reasons that I chose this film.
Did you get used to the subtitles reasonably quickly?
Yes, to begin I thought that it would be horrible and couldnt really understand why you were not playing it in english, however it quickly became easy to follow and was fine. I imagine it wouldnt be as good in english.
I will actually play some of the start in English - I think you'll find your comment is right about the English dialogue :)
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