One thing to be clear is the difference between film and life. Film is not a reproduction of life. It is an artistic method that comes from life, but is different from life. If we compare "Lola Run" with real life, then it will It gets boring because it's impossible in real life, no one ever comes back from the dead and then goes back to the beginning. Real life cannot be like this, but movies can, so as an artistic technique, movies can help us broaden the scope of our thinking and make one thing happen multiple times.
First of all, let’s talk about the security settings, because he controls all the possibilities of the whole thinking. In other words, the movie is his thinking, and he is the incarnation of the director. If we pay attention to the structure of the film, we will find that it is the security guard who said "start" to the film. In the first story, he said "see you back" to Lola, and Lola was shot and killed by the police. The second paragraph of the story begins; the second paragraph says "you'll be fine", but Lola is really fine, but his boyfriend is dead; the third paragraph says "you're finally here", like this The security is waiting for Lola's arrival, which also heralds the end of thinking. Everything happens intentionally or unintentionally. The security guard is a person in a movie outside the movie, or, like us, he is also watching a movie.
about the initial choice. Why is Lola running? Can she not run? Yes, she can, as long as she doesn't care about her boyfriend's life or death, then she doesn't need to run, the story is over, all the pain will be gone, and all the reincarnation will not exist. But Lola still has to run, why? Because she is reluctant to give up. In Buddhist terms, she still has desires. Buddhists say that "if the heart is moved, it will arise, and if the heart is quiet, it will be destroyed." Caused countless "destiny", to fall into the suffering of reincarnation.
About the power to make Lola run. In addition to the above-mentioned reason why Lola wants to run because she is reluctant to give up, there is also a power that exists as a premise, and that is the threat of black boss. First, there is the threat of the black boss, and then Lola's reluctance to give up, these two constitute the reason for her "running". What is the significance of these two reasons? When it comes to this issue, another element must be mentioned, and that is time.
About time. Time seems to be everywhere, and the sound at the beginning of the film is the ticking of the clock, then the clock appears, and the shot is engulfed by the clock. It can be found that the clocks appear in multiple shots of the film, and they seem to form a force that makes Lola quicken her pace. To be clear, the reason why the force formed by time works is based on the threat of the black boss, and the time limit is given by the black boss. Movies come from thinking about life and thinking about people in reality. To answer the above questions, we have to go back to reality.
back to reality. In real life, are we in a hurry like Lola, constantly running around, and then always feel that there is not enough time? I think this is what most modern people generally feel. So who is the "black boss" in our lives? Who is urging the continuous operation of this society, and why can we be controlled by "it"? Who is "it"'s helper and means? I think this is what the film thinks, and the film also partly gives its thinking, as said before, the reason why we can be controlled by "it" is because we have desires, and time is one of "it" Helpers and means. But what exactly is "it", the movie does not give an answer, nor can it give an answer, which is why there are so many questions in the narration at the beginning of the movie. And thinking about who "it" is is also the attraction of the film.
about it". First of all, "it" exists, just like the black boss in the movie, although we don't know his identity, "it" does indeed prompt us to make a choice. But what exactly is "it", I don't know, maybe "it" is the "potential" that modern society itself will form a kind of "potential" that drives us to keep busy, a force that transcends the state and has universal significance to human beings. And thinking about "it", I can only go so far.
About freedom of choice. Another thought of the movie is about choices. In these 20 minutes, Lola can have many choices. It seems that she can choose freely, and her different choices will lead to different consequences. We are free because we are free to choose, we may say so happily. But we forgot that Lola had to run, her choices were limited ones, and they were choices above the threat of the black boss, so every choice she made was painful, so that she had to roar and resist, Or to ease the pressure. We have been in the shackles of the "black boss".
About the last paragraph. Before Lola saw the casino, she kept asking herself "What can I do? What can I do?", "Help me, please, just once." Who is Lola asking for help? As if "God" helped her, she saw the casino and won a lot of money. What can't be ignored is Lola's hoarse shouting in the casino. At that moment, time seemed to stop, and all the pressure she had suffered before broke out. At that moment, Lola seemed to be free. Before that, Lola's boyfriend also inexplicably saw the beggar under the "pointing" of the blind man, and got back the lost money. And all this, "God" seems to have come. Is it God? I think it is an unknowable force, that is, in addition to the forces mentioned above that exist and function in our society, there is also a force that we do not know. The former force can only give us pressure, while the latter "unknown" force gives us hope. It is the existence of this force that will prevent us from collapsing. Because we don't know, there may be hope. And the expectation of this force, we compress it in "tomorrow".
About "tomorrow". Tomorrow represents this kind of unknowable, what will happen tomorrow, we never know, maybe we can guess, but we can never guess, who will you meet tomorrow? what happened? Everything is unknowable, because of this, tomorrow is truly free for us, so Haizi will say "from tomorrow / be a happy person / feed horses, chop wood, travel around the world", tomorrow I will have a The house faces the sea and the spring flowers are blooming.
May 16, 2012 at noon
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