Run Lola: If I have the Moonlight Box, can I get back what I've lost

Bret 2022-04-22 07:01:05

This is a German film in 1998, the film is very short, the official film is 81 minutes long, but the abridged version is only 69 minutes, a crime love film, but what this film is going to show or show is a different feeling. The beginning of this film is a shot of animation and reality interspersed, which seems to make people enter the game interface of Contra or Temple Run. If life is a game, then it can be archived and re-read. A high-speed long shot finally brings the viewer's eye to the red phone, where it seems like it all started. The whole film shakes its legs to the background music, which makes the audience have to ignite, and the low-pitched humming reminds me of Ms. Lei's hollow voice. The film is divided into three parts, from the boyfriend Manny because he lost 100,000 yuan in drug dealing, but he has to deal with the boss in 20 minutes, if there is no money, he will be killed, so call the heroine Lola Asking for help, the camera returns to the red phone, from here, to Lola to find her father to borrow money, and finally to find her boyfriend who is about to start robbery, repeated three times, but each time because of the small details are different, which leads to The end result is different, this is the butterfly effect. The scene of the heroine Lola running dominates the film, with red hair, a vest, and green pants seeming to fill the entire interface. During the run, Lola met all kinds of people, but because the time of each departure was different, and the time when everyone met was different, because of this small difference, the life of each of these people also happened. After a great change, the director used a montage technique to give the outline of passers-by's later life in a few short shots. The shooting technique had to make people wonder, which was very unusual and novel in the 1990s. . In this film, only the father is given, and the others are passers-by, but they are connected because of Lola. Between chance and coincidence, the probability of encountering someone at a certain time and place has changed. A middle-aged woman, such as a man on a bicycle, and the beggar who took Manny's money, and Lola passed him twice, and Mr. Mayer who had a car accident, his father's lover, a security guard, etc. , the three outcomes are not the same. So it's an open-ended ending, it just depends on which one you prefer. There are many small details in the play that are very interesting. For example, many changes take place at the crossroads, which is also a symbol of the director's metaphor for the crossroads of life. We are insignificant in front of our destiny. There is also the de-colorization of male characters, and the clothes are more black, white and gray. The German punctual Manny said that he went into the supermarket at 12 o'clock to rob, and it was not bad for a second. In the end, when Manny exchanged a gun for 100,000 marks, was he not afraid of begging? Did the beggar beat him to death? This also reflects the Germans' compliance with their promises. The difference from Forrest Gump's run in "Forrest Gump" is that this film sharply exaggerates the role of women's gentle power. She chose a more extreme male-biased way to rob her father's bank. A small mistake in running eventually led to the death of her boyfriend. For the third time, she chose the courage of a woman to be gentle, firm and desperate, and went to the casino. Finally got 100,000 marks. The ending of this story is happy, only the death of my father is sad. The male characters arranged in the play are also weak and incompetent, such as fathers, beggars, bank clerks, bicycle clerks, and even Lola's boyfriend, who needs Lola to drive to pick them up, but finally ask Lola to save them. If I have to say it, it is a bit atypical of feminism. Of course, there are different opinions, depending on how you understand it.  If it is a love movie, then there is also love in the play. At the beginning of the movie, it is explained that the heroine is a little girl who believes that love is omnipotent. This is the so-called desperate love, but it is expressed in a comedy way. , The dialogue between the male and female protagonists in the play also occurs between millions of lovers. This is just to tell us that everyone is a small person.  This reminds me of "Journey to the West" four years earlier. The beauty of the same purpose is that at the end, the supreme treasure played by Stephen Chow is also desperate to use the moonlight treasure box to travel back again and again to save Bai Jingjing who tried to commit suicide. Even if it is such a classic and well-intentioned, it took many years for Chinese people to read the truth. At that time, "Journey to the West" can be said to be a hero who died before he was born, and Zhou Xingchi was a hero without tears.  The same can be obtained, when we are in the beginning of lovelorn, we constantly complain about each other, delete and pull black, and wish to erase all traces of the other party in your life. After a long time, we will reflect on it, on the road of love. , what made each other come to a fork in the road, if some factors had changed at the beginning, would the ending be different. Love is like this, and so is friendship. Why can't confidants become old friends?

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Run Lola Run quotes

  • Herr Meier: Is everything all right?

    Lola: No.

  • Vater: To think that I could have fathered a loon like you!

    Lola: But you did, you jerk!

    Vater: Oh, yeah? Your real father didn't even live to see your birth!