We have always known that we only have one life.
But Tom Tykway, the director of "Lola Run", has completed a performance-style elaboration on life through the assumption of life.
"Lola Run" is a very special film both in terms of conception and movement.
The film spreads out with three different endings of the heroine Lola and her boyfriend, which is very novel in conception.
This is just a 20-minute story, but it is also a story of destiny.
20 minutes, 100,000 marks, 2 lives.
Lola is running, she has 20 minutes to run for her and her love.
She is a woman who adheres to "the big things are loved by love", so the absurd beginning of the film can be continued.
The movement of the entire film is very interesting, there is a strong technicality, and the techniques are even a bit cumbersome.
But there is no doubt that a 75-minute film is full of tension in these emotionally expressive shots.
Director Tom Tykwer is a famous geek.
So, "Lola Run" is also a weird movie, and of course, geniuses are often lunatics.
The film's extensive use of stop-motion jump cuts, fast forwards or falls, fast motion, slow motion, elevated motion, and close-ups, as well as excellent color, is unforgettable.
If it weren't for the plot and conception being full and novel enough, this would have been reduced to a gorgeous movie showing off its photography skills.
For a series of characters encountered during Lola's running, the director used the method of freeze-frame jumping to express the future fate of the characters, as a novel method to suggest the plot.
When expressing the psychological activities of Lola and Manny, the fast forward shots were used many times, which filled the picture with a sense of depression and made the audience feel the tension of the plot.
In the 20-minute run, the combination of fast and slow shots, one shot at a time, clearly shows the anxiety, helplessness and indomitableness in the characters' hearts.
The same story was given 3 different endings by the director, very much like some kind of fairy tale. Every time it starts again, it chooses to upgrade the characters, giving people a broader space for imagination.
In the film, close-ups and close-ups are used many times to magnify the expressions or parts of the characters to emphasize the tension of the plot and the helplessness of the characters.
At the same time, in the film, the director's grasp of the picture is amazing.
The color handling of some images such as memories, imagination, etc. is excellent.
Bold hues such as black and white and red are interspersed to make the film full and not monotonous.
The composition of the film, which is difficult to break, is also used casually by him like playing with photos.
Especially in the last few minutes when Lola rushed to Manny's place, the composition of the three small frames of Manny, Lola and the clock was very interesting.
This is a very novel approach, and at the same time allows the audience to intuitively feel the tension of the task in the film.
The 75 minutes that these images make up are almost a visual feast that ends before you know it.
Of course, aside from these bells and whistles, just from the plot of the movie and its implied meaning, it is also a rare good movie.
There is only one life.
A lot of people, a lot of people, know this very clearly.
And Lola, a woman, she believes in love. In her eyes, there is nothing that love can't solve.
Perhaps it is also because of the phrase "big things are carried by love", the director gave the story different endings again and again, trying to find an ending that supports this idea.
Lola kept running, not for anything else, just so that Manny was still alive 20 minutes later, even though Manny was nothing but a money-less punk.
This may be love.
I believe that Tom Tykwer is also a lover.
The first time, he let Lola blindly follow Manny to rob the supermarket, fired the first shot of his life, and was finally killed.
The second time, he let Lola hold his father hostage, robbed the bank alone, but his lover was killed in the end.
The third time, he asked Lola to approach the casino for the first time with only 97.2 marks and tried to bet 100,000 marks. In the end, before Manny found her, she also succeeded.
And all this is just for love.
Lola gave her life and gave up her family, just for the love that would no longer exist when she died.
In fact, this seems to be a movie that celebrates love and life.
Lola runs the streets of Germany with red hair to save her lover.
Her car was stolen and she could only run on her legs as fast as she could.
She only has 97.2 marks in her pocket, but she has to get 100,000 marks in 20 minutes or her lover will rob the supermarket.
In fact, what a ridiculous story this is.
If someone tells you that there is such a woman, such a story, I am afraid it will definitely not be believed.
Of course, it's a movie.
However, there are indeed such women in this world.
They believe in love more devoutly than their own lives, and they are sometimes even willing to exchange love with death.
Yuan Hao asked the voiceless voice of the swan song: "Ask what love is in the world, and directly teach life and death".
Lola said that the big things are supported by love.
So, what life and death, when it comes to love, becomes small, right?
What the director wants to express is probably a love that can transcend time and space and even life and death, just like Lola.
A woman who can love with all her life is such a beautiful woman.
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