"We get the habit of living first, and then the habit of thinking. In our rush toward death, the inner body is always in the lead." "Lola Run" creates absurd scenes The picture tells the story of Lola's expected ending in the cycle of running to save her boyfriend. It expresses the theme of the film in an alternative way: "All our residual ropes will eventually return to the starting point." ” personal thoughts, and attracted attention. The director gave the film a shocking color, presented a different visual experience to the audience with the strange circle of death and resurrection, and used a unique symbolic language to add luster to the film.
Clocks are a must-have item in life, people are used to it, and they are nothing more than used to present time. What if the clock is not just a dispensable item? The director used it in "Lola Run", making it a testament to the passage and retrograde of time, which is one of the ways that Lola goes back to the past and continues to chase time. kind of realization. At the same time, it also conceals what the film says: "An answer will give rise to a new question." In the close-up at the beginning, the clock is running, the hands are reversed, and the ferocious beast sculpture on the clock opens its mouth and sucks everyone into the darkness . It aroused the interest of the audience and hinted at the bizarre plot of the film. The director has almost buried his ability to mobilize emotions in various bells: countless close-up and long-range polar shots, countless adjacent scenes switching to reverse countless fast cuts, accompanied by bells and raindrops. The intense music and the tense and intense atmosphere were brought out, the urgency of time cast a shadow on everyone's heart, and Lola's frequent attention to time and running at extreme speed became natural. The use of the clock is simple but makes the film full of tension, avoids the audience's aesthetic fatigue, and establishes an emotional distance between the audience and Lola, showing the director's creative thinking and strong artistic skills, which is meaningful.
Dominoes, symbol of chain reaction. Time is repeating, the ending is shuffling. Laura tries again and again, accidental and inevitable, just like the butterfly effect, every small process and result accumulates each other, possessing huge power and achieving a kind of life; everyone who has been in contact with Laura also has a different experience. future. The director used quick cuts to show the future stages and final results of passers-by in the form of photos to foreshadow Lola's future. When Lola set off for the third time, he avoided Mr. Mayer's crash, so that he could meet his father smoothly; let his father miss the opportunity to confess to his lover; so that the relationship between them was not shattered. The father, who was in the accident in the ambulance, held Lola's hand for the final ride. Everything in "Lola Run" seems like a domino: no calculated calculations, just unexpected results. Even if each card is trivial, it can have a shocking effect.
The black and white rotating lights of the barbershop also symbolize the ending. Unlike the emphasis of clocks and dominoes, it only appears as a background, and there is no reason for complexity. It only expresses monotonous results: success and failure. However, within common sense, the director has hidden a mystery: the traditional barber shop rotating lights are white, red and blue stripes. White symbolizes bandages, red symbolizes blood, and blue symbolizes veins. The director made the rotating lights in black and white contrasting colors, and the new idea is to change the concept and use the old things new. Just as the lights should be turned on, Manny hung up the phone, two thoughts battling each other in his mind—which might have made a difference. The upside-down shot makes the picture more sinister, the weird audio-visual increases the audience's psychological hints and stimulates their associations, while the rotating lights cause suspense.
A large number of absurd plots and settings make the film novel, the clever use of symbols adds details and reality, and the peculiar techniques tell the plain story in waves, and even form a fixed pattern, which leads to "Terrorist Cruise", "Happy Death Day" and other movies. Whether it's the "Lola Run" movie itself or the director himself, the biggest success lies in creative thinking and logical thinking in absurdity. This is worthy of all filmmakers to learn and learn from, and to create more classic films. Therefore, it is not surprising that "Lola Run" is deeply loved by the audience.
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