Literary analysis about film “Run Lola Run”

 Life is full of many crucial moments and the film portrays how decisions making is an important process in life.  In other words, the film is about choices and the greatest part of it is that decision have great effects on individual life and well as on other people’s lives.  ‘Run Lola Run’ is a film about Lola who tries to save her boyfriend (Manni).  Manni’s boss expects 100,000marks but he forgets the money on the train.  He calls Lola and ask her to help him find the money.  Although Lola has a strong sense of love towards Manni, the film goes beyond   love-bond to   demonstrate   the effect of decision and fate.  From the film, we learn that Lola makes many decisions within a short time frame.  She engages in many things out of her control. In many situations, she breaks the rule or in other words she focus on fulfilling her will.  The purpose of this paper is to   analyze the literary analysis of ‘Run Lola Run’. It is important to understand that literacy analysis is the process of analyzing the elements of literature and examining their meaning. The film has all narrative elements. These include the event, time, cause and effects, plot, theme, character, and other literacy devices that reveals that smallest decisions can change one’s life as well as the lives of others.

Theme

            The film represents many themes that helps the reader understand the deeper meaning of the movie. For example, the film reveals the theme of chance to show that Lola has the freedom as well as the opportunity to make decisions (Whalen, 2000).  The theme of chance is also portrayed in gambling.  Lola is involved in a game of chance and this affects her life in that she is shot by the police though she never die.  This theme of chance also means that chance have consequences, both good and bad.

 

Decision and fate

            The film reveals that individual are influenced by choices, circumstances and actions.    Lola’s actions do not only affect her life but their affect the lives of other beings.    It is important to note that Lola exercising power to overcome troubles (TUNALI, 2011).  For example, while Lola and Manni are sleeping, Lola thinks about the Manni, her love toward him, and how to save his life.   From the theme of decisions and after, the film reveals that life is controlled by timing, and desire for fulfillment.

 Ignorance

 From the film, human beings   are ignorant of themselves or rather their true identity.  Nevertheless, it is hard to understand our origins as well our destiny since the reality of truth of life is concealed (TUNALI, 2011).   It is important for individuals to ask “who are we”, “what do we know” among other question to examine ourselves.  Such questions will help understand the true knowledge. For example, Lola does not know that she is a biological child to her father.  She is not aware that her mother is alcoholic (TUNALI, 2011).  She ignorantly seeks support from her father only to be rejected.  The father is interests with hos concerns and plans and ignores the interest of others.  In general, the characters thinks they know but the reality is that they lack the truth about themselves.  Thus, it is important for individual to gain realization to understand their identity.

 

 Feminism

 One can say that that Run Lola Run is a feminist film.  This is because, women are featured not only as women but also as realistic characters (Calhoun, 2013). Lola does not accept to be under the male dominion but she is a heroine.  She focus on fulfilling her interest   and she acts according to what she thinks.  In the film, Lola resist the stereotypes. In fact, her physical appearance such as her hair and clothes shows that she does not conform   to the social norms.  Even her attributes are seen as deviance by the society, she remains to be loyal and reliable (Lebow, 2015).   In most cases, men are seen to be strong and dominant but in this case, Lola is a strong woman than Mann.  Note that Man fears his boss and regards him as ruthless and cruel.   Unlike Mann, Lola challenges the social stereotypes and show the society that she want to achieve the best ending.

 

 Relationships

            The theme of relationship is revealed the film.  Lola begs her father to    assist her so that she can save her boyfriend from danger.  A point to note that relationship is not between Lola and Manni but there is relationship issues between Lola and her family (Bizzocchi, 2005).  Her father does not give her money but she tells Lola that he is not her biological father (Bizzocchi, 2005).  In the second scenario, she says that “Come one, Help me. Please... (Bizzocchi, 2005). This shows that she is   struggling to manipulate her world.  Lola is a superpower with specialized abilities such as her ability to think,   and her level of endurance.  Her feminist power play significant role in protecting Manni from losing his life.

Game theory

 The film ‘Run Lola Run’ can be related with game theory. This is because, Lola and Minna engage in interaction which putting into consideration possible outcomes.  Lola is a situation where she has a responsibility to fulfill certain roles (Bizzocchi, 2005).  She engages in dangerous situation n to ensure that Mann is not in danger.  The purpose of including theory in the analysis is show that Lola and Minna are in a social situation but they are making independent decisions.  However, the decisions on one individual affect the life of the other

 

 Time

 Times plays a significant role in the film in revealing the limited twenty minutes.   The reader learns about the life of Lola and Manni within 20 minutes (TUNALI, 2011).  The film teaches that time or every minute is important and every decisions made can have a great effect on life.  It is important to note that with limited time, one can make small things or can make little decisions (TUNALI, 2011).  However, this is different with what Lola does with her time in that within 20 minutes, she thinks where to get the money, deliver the money, among other things to ensure that she saves the life of her boyfriend.  She has less time but she continues to run until she catches up.

 

 Setting/ location

The setting is very important as it helps understand the narrative. Run Lola Run is set in many areas.  In other words, the characters’ actions while in different locations.  For example,  Lola  goes  to  the bank to meet her father,  Lola and Manni  will meet in Lola’s room,  Lola enters in  a casino and plays  rouletee,  and  Minna robs money from the supermarket (Tumarkin, 2005).  These locations helps understand how the actions as well as decisions cause negative effective to individual life as well to others lives.

Character

 Lola is the protagonist and whose actions reflects the film’s title ‘Run Lola Run’.  In most cases, Men are the protagonist and there are depicted struggling to the life of female characters (Tumarkin, 2005). However, in the novel ‘Run Lola Run’, Lola is an independent character. She is not only a hero but a superhero.  She relies upon himself given that her father   abandons her.  Lola goes beyond the social norms when she enters the casino (Tumarkin, 2005).  Note that she is seen as the odd one out but she does not comfort to the older traditions and values.  She alters the world and changes the environments.

Visual images

 The visuals images the film helps the reader detect the power of post modernism.  For example, color red represents essential message while color red communicates about liberty (Tumarkin, 2005).   The color of the hair symbolizes   disobedience and independence.  The film has circles and spirals that represents a dominant message Msisconceptions and worry. Tykwer also uses language and it play a significant role in communicating the unique experiences of the characters.

 

Conclusion

            The film ‘Run Lola Run’ contains imaginative recreations that the audiences use to derive engaging and find solutions to problems.  The film has various visual techniques to reveals the meaning. The images and symbols play a significant role in depicting the ideas and themes. For example, motifs such as clocks, red, spirals, time, and other things play a fundamental role in the film.  All these elements have a literacy meaning. All in all, the film engages the audiences   especially through the use of different devices.  Another important thing that the audience can detect from the film is that it is different from Hollywood file.  In most cases, Hollywood film contains a false reality but Run Lola Run moves from naturalistic conventions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lebow, L. (2015). 'Run Lola run': Celebrating uncertainty. Metaphor, (2), 50.

 

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