"Lola Run", on the surface, tells a novel love story of a woman, Lola, who runs three times with roughly the same process and different results in order to get 100,000 marks to save her boyfriend within 20 minutes. In fact, it was an experiment conducted by talented director Tom Tykwer to break the original "unchanged" routine. Every minute Lola ran, he was breaking the original constant. 1. Breaking the traditional story core The films before "Lola Run" usually follow the unchanging tradition of "heroes save beauty" when it comes to rescue and love rescue. However, "Lola Run" broke this "hero saves the beauty" model and launched a "beauty saves the hero" run. The whole process, the woman Lola is moving, has been running; while the man Manny is always still. Men are waiting for the change of fate in place, while women are doing their best to fight against fate. This also enriches the core of the story to a certain extent, and there is a certain element of promoting feminism: the times should change, and the position of men and women in traditional society is time to change. In the film, Lola's three different runs met the same people, but these people have different fates in each run. While strengthening the absurdity of the film itself, the director is also constantly telling the audience about the unpredictable changes in the entire human world, as well as the confusion and helplessness that human beings feel when facing such an unpredictable world. But the director sampled this kind of narrative method that broke the routine and did not develop according to the timeline, added different content to what happened at the same time, and repeated it three times. It is through this narrative technique that the director told people that the world is unknowable, and that human beings are confused and helpless in this unknowable environment, and most of all cannot change the objective world, but everyone can through their own efforts , to break the original state and emotion of human beings, so as to break the "unchanged" and change one's own destiny. 2. The audio-visual style that breaks the conventions In addition to the narrative techniques and ideological core, the director is also impacting the traditional audio-visual style all the time in the film's audio-visual, and has established a set of audition styles exclusive to this "Lola Run". Impact. First of all, the editing of the film breaks the conventional axis relationship on the basis of fast rhythm, which further expresses the absurdity of the film. It also shows the chaos and fast pace of the world. In the film, the director does not want to "online" the so-called specific events, but shows the mental state of human beings in such a social environment in a subjective and non-documentary way. The film as a whole is dominated by moving shots, mostly using follow-up and panning to show the running process of Lola. At the same time, it intentionally causes instability and shaking of the image, imitating and showing the physiological visual experience of Lola when running, and also further depicting the unpredictable changes of human beings. mental state in the world. In addition, the composition of the film is often irregular, reflecting the unpredictability of the world and the sense of separation between people and the world, which once again deepens the core of the theme. "Humanity, perhaps the most mysterious creature on the planet, is an unsolved mystery. But in the end, will it always be the same question, and always the same answer?" Apparently, director Tom Tykwer uses Lola three runs of the answer, no. You can break those seemingly identical "constants" if you want.
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