of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we
started
and know the place for the first time After the game is before the game The end of the game is before the game begins. At the beginning of the film, there is a monster swaying from side to side and an inexplicable dripping sound. When I slowly looked up, I realized that it was the pendulum of a monster clock. The hour hand was moving fast, and the animal head on the clock opened its mouth. .... "Humans, perhaps the most mysterious species on our planet. Its mystery comes from unanswerable questions... Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? How do we know we think we know Why should we believe everything? Countless questions search for an answer. An answer leads to a new question, which leads to the next question, and so on, and so on. To the same question? Not always the same answer? The ball is round. The game is only 90 minutes. That's all, everything else is pure theory. Let's get started! " Going and going aimlessly, in the blurred crowd, the first clear person is the bank clerk, then the bike thief, then Mr. Mayer (Lola's dad's friend), and finally the pusher woman. Appearing in the reverse order of their encounter with Lola, their lives, influenced by Lola, are also affecting Lola's fate.
The bank guard kicks the ball and the game begins. The title shifts from a chaotic and confused crowd to electronic music and comics: the red-haired Lola runs forward fearlessly, and ends up being drawn into the whirlpool of time. Spiral patterns are everywhere in the film: bar markers, Laura's stairs, patterns on pillows, buns in portraits of women in casinos.
At the Shanghai Film Festival in 2001, I saw this film for the first time. Its philosophical opening remarks about time, dazzling editing, flamboyant colors, rhythm of heartbeats, bizarre ending, and the entanglement wrapped in it The fate and coincidence that moved my whole body, the dedication to love, and the determination to be willing to do anything to change my fate are all unforgettable to me.
Seeing that Manny couldn't get in touch with Lola or a taxi because he didn't have a phone booth, I sometimes thought that this story wouldn't have happened if everyone had a cell phone. But when you think about it, none of that matters: it doesn't matter where the story takes place, whether they have a cell phone, whether Lola is in a car, or even the ending. Because, in my opinion, the film is about time, it is accidental and inevitable, it is a long and short life, it is also the truth and firmness of a young heart, and it is also the hypocrisy and betrayal in the adult world. Everything is being performed in every human corner of the earth in various ways, regardless of the environment, plot, language, right or wrong.
Simple Lola has simple makeup, her fiery enthusiasm is like the short red hair on her head, and her hands are full of magical energy like her screams. She believes that love can overcome all difficulties. She loves Manny and wants Manny to love her. She asked for nothing but doubts about whether Manny met her by chance or fate.
For the first time, I saw Lola being shot and fell down, as if the person who was hit was himself, and had the same mistakes, sadness and unwillingness as Lola. "Stop!" Laura said, and it all started all over again.
Manny, who is as small as Hunhun, simply loves Lola and simply believes that Lola can solve his problems for him. It's just that he, like all selfish men, wants Lola to always be his own, even after he dies...
"Manny.".
"What?"
"You're not dead yet."
"No?"
It's just a game because life can't be repeated. But unlike "Moonlight Box", the choice of the comeback is not the protagonist, but the person who plays the game, here is the director. Unlike the "butterfly effect" that is only a part of the film, although important, it is not the whole.
The game repeats itself over and over again, everyone and everything happens according to its preset program, even the dialogue remains the same, only Lola, she has the power to choose to change: the treatment of the dog, the treatment of the nun, the result is only It was a difference of a second or two, but it gave us a very different ending. A woman pushing a stroller can be miserable or happy; a bicycle thief can be happy or miserable; a bank clerk can be desperate or hopeful. And Lola herself may die, or she may succeed. The only exception is Mr. Mayer (a friend of Lola's dad), whose collision with the white car seems to be his unchangeable fate, the only difference being when and where and how badly injured. But which choice is the right one? For Lola, it may be the happiness of the woman pushing the stroller, or the happiness of the bicycle thief, or the hope of the bank clerk.
I can't help but ask myself, will the decisions I make change my life? For example, I choose to go out at this time, or is it another time? Will someone else's decision change my life? For example, if he brushed past me, suddenly changed his mind and turned back, then we would meet each other, would that make any difference to each other?
Opposite the simple young Laura and Manny is another world of adults, one full of chaos, hypocrisy, deceit and betrayal: Laura's alcoholic mother, talking on the phone is undoubtedly another married male. , and Luo Wei himself is not her father's biological daughter; Lola's useless father, who has been fornicating with his lover all the year round, never thought that he would raise children for others again; Lola's father's lover, as a third party, influenced the Lola family, but also With another relationship, even if she is married to Lola's father, it's hard to imagine a happy family. Perhaps it is because of this that the director made Lola's father suffer a car accident in the final ending. At the same time, the person who stole Lola's motorcycle was also killed in the car accident.
This run, which was doomed to fail, had a comedic ending because of the respect for the nuns and the help of God, so some people said that "it is better to kneel down and pray than to run desperately." Heaven or hell in one thought, this must be said to be the director's joke.
In the words of a homeless man: The world is crazy!
When Manny guessed where the homeless might take the money, the crazy director inserted 32 scenes of various places in just 8 seconds. a place. The homeless who wanted to get money not only did not disappear immediately, but still wandered around the city. The most arrogant act was to invite the person who stole a bicycle to drink a drink, then bought the bicycle at a high price and continued to wander around the city. , which ended up being caught by Manny.
The bank guard saw Lola in the third comeback and asked, "You're finally here!" As if this guard had witnessed the last two runs, when Lola looked back at him, the guard's expression became violent Change, yeah, how did he know she was coming? His expression ranged from giggle to seriousness to almost horrified sternness, which eventually led to his heart attack. It was Lola's miraculous hands that saved the guards in the ambulance. But the ambulance showed up at the same time, the guard the third time, so who were the first two?
It was Manny who robbed the supermarket for the first time, but Lola died; the second time it was Lola who robbed the bank, and Manny was the one who fell. What is the director thinking?
The first time she left the bank, Lola stood blankly at the door, a vague girl walked in the distance, and the next shot cut to her was an old grandmother in the same costume. That girl and this old grandma may have nothing to do with it, or it may be the same person who has experienced decades of vicissitudes in an instant; the long life in the director's hands is just a change of camera, a few freeze-frame pictures. So what are the pictures of my life?
After each of Lola's explosive screams, the quiet atmosphere took my breath away, Lola is a miracle maker!
Miracle! What is a miracle? The blind man's hand pointed, and the homeless man who took the purse appeared in front of Manny on a bicycle; what was a miracle? The ball lands on black 20 twice on the board.
Miracles are like an impossible dream, so people who believe in miracles have dreams, right? In "Lola Run" is the song "I believe": don't believe in fate, don't blame others, only believe in yourself, believe in dreams, believe in running... Maybe this is the real reason why I like it!
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