Game of Life

Annie 2022-04-23 07:01:27

It's a surreal movie that puts Lola through three 20-minute sessions in a game-simulation way. In the process of these three gradual runs, Lola kept running. In order to send the 100,000 marks to save Manny's life, he made different choices during the three runs, and thus had different endings. The first time, she was desperate and became Manny's accomplice when she robbed the supermarket, and was shot dead on the street; the second time, she took the initiative to become the perpetrator of violence, robbed her father's company and successfully got 100,000 marks, but When he was about to give the money to Mark, Mark was hit and killed by a car; and the third time, Lola gave up the violence, but walked into the casino, made use of her special ability to shout, and made money, while Manny, After meeting the beggar who took his money, he did not use violence against him. Instead, after thinking about it, he exchanged the gun in his hand and got back his 100,000 marks. The two of them finally got a happy ending.
The setting of the film is very interesting, a cowardly man and a courageous woman come together, and this man happens to be in desperate need of this woman's help. In the first time, Lola passively became an accomplice of violence, lost her basic characteristics as a woman, and was killed because there was no need to exist. In the second time, Lola seemed to take the initiative to bear the violent behavior of men, The existence of Manny became a decoration, so Manny died, and in the third time, Lola returned to her own feminine essence, and Manny also made judgments and choices in a relatively feminine way of thinking, so everyone was happy.
In Lola's last run, both Lola and Manny gave up the violent way and chose a feminine way of thinking, and the kind of thinking they showed was exactly what director Tom Tykaway did. Advocated, this also involves the issue of gender culture to a certain extent. In the director's view, violence cannot be the way to solve problems. Only harmonious coexistence, non-violence, and softness overcome rigidity can fundamentally resolve conflicts and solve long-term problems.

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Extended Reading
  • Breana 2022-03-24 09:01:26

    Nothing but a pretty title. It is a common problem that experimental films have more form than content, but this one has no content at all.

  • Alexa 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Is this a test of love? Different endings after putting down the phone 3 times, all say the third ending is good because they are both alive? Laura still has a bag of money in her hand? Why are there security guards in the ambulance?

Run Lola Run quotes

  • Lola: Who's that slut?

  • Herr Schuster: [when Lola arrives at the bank for the "third" time] Are you here at last, honey?