In the beginning, novels were fictional, bizarre, and incomprehensible.
Later, novels developed to reflect real life, and authenticity is the characteristic of such novels. The novels of this period are the most widely circulated among the people, and the most well-known works are the most.
In modern times, novels have had new developments, and their authenticity has been broken. Novels are not only told as stories. The story becomes a tool for the author, a seasoning. The author controls the color and aroma of the dish, and the story is appropriately added to the narrative. Narrative becomes primary. The monolinearity of the narrative has also changed, it jumps, intersperses, interrupts, and is described over and over again. The story reverts to the story itself.
"Lola Run" is a narrative experiment.
Lola's boyfriend Mani encountered difficulties, and within 20 minutes, he had to get 100,000 marks to solve the problem, otherwise he would be in danger of life. He called and told Lola that he hoped she would find a way to save him, otherwise he would have to rob the supermarket to get the money. She told him to wait for him in the phone booth and not leave for twenty minutes. So Lola starts running downstairs...
The movie starts abruptly, with no general transitions. Obviously, the completeness of the story doesn't matter.
From Lola running to save her boyfriend, to the ending after they met, this is the plot of the whole movie. This simple plot was repeated three times. Every time the plot has a slight change, the ending is very different. That is to say, the director arranged for them three sets of plots and three endings. After one episode ends, another episode starts over via Mani's call to Lola, and then starts again...and then, the movie ends. In each set of plots, the director has arranged several interspersed characters: the neighbor, the old woman pushing the baby stroller on the street, the middle-aged man driving out of the garage, the staff walking in the corridor of the bank office, The young people riding bicycles on the street... When Lola ran past them, their whole lives were frozen by the director with a few photos. However, in each episode, their lives are very different.
The film's soundtrack, similar to heavy metal and rock, runs through the film almost from start to finish. The point of such music is not to express any attitude of the director towards the characters in the play. Only in Lola's father's office, when he talks to his lover, does the music stop abruptly and the picture freezes. With this arrangement, the close-up of his lover's tears and the expression of his father's helplessness are out of the frame of the film itself.
The film shatters the notion of reality, using three parallel stories that are similar but not identical. The director's intention is obvious. He wants to explore the "choice of life" and the causal relationship in a light-hearted way. One thing has happened, and it has caused a chain reaction that keeps affecting the next thing. Disrupt it again, and the initiating event re-occurs, making new choices, evoking new reactions, and new events. The director focuses on this simple life process. The protagonist no longer bears the heavy responsibility of expressing the joys and sorrows of the world. The director and the audience no longer have the mental burden of facing the big problems of life.
The wise director's choice of narrative allows him to escape all metaphysical arguments. He's more of a scientist, proving what he has to say in his lab.
Of course, in the end, don't forget the joy of fun and gaming in this lighthearted movie.
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