The basic plot of the film is that in Berlin, Germany, underworld gangster Romani calls his girlfriend Lola, and Manny tells Lola that he has lost 100,000 marks. After 20 minutes, if the 100,000 marks are not returned, he will be executed by the underworld boss. In order to get the 100,000 marks and rescue Manny, Lola ran desperately for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, Manny keeps calling and borrowing money from the phone booth.
The movie shows the three processes and three results of Lola running and Lola looking for money to rescue Manny.
The first run: Lola failed to borrow money, Lola and Manny robbed the supermarket, Lola was shot dead by the police.
Second run: Lola grabs money at the bank. Manny was hit and killed by an ambulance.
Third run: Lola wins at the casino and Manny retrieves the lost money. Lola and Manny become rich.
This is just a frame of the film. What the director really wants to illustrate is the infinite possibilities hidden in time.
When Lola ran out of the room door three times, her mother didn't change, and she was the only person in the movie who didn't change. It is also a coordinate of the beginning of time. The change started when Lola went downstairs. She met a punk and a dog at the corner. The first time the dog barked, Lola was frightened and ran out the door. This time it should be normal; the second time Lola was thrown by the punk, Falling down the stairs, the time to go out was delayed; the third time Lola jumped over the head of the punk and the dog, the time was advanced. In fact, whether it is delayed or advanced, the time difference is only about 3 seconds, and the process and ending of the story are completely opposite. It's a chain reaction of time that affects not only Lola and Manny, but everyone they meet along the way. For example, the woman pushing the stroller, for the first time, the child the woman stole was confiscated, and the woman stole the child again. The second time Lola hit the woman with the cart a few seconds later. As a result, because of the few seconds late, the number of the lottery ticket purchased by the woman happened to win the jackpot. The third time Lola didn't hit the woman, she converted to religion. And Lola's father, because Lola broke into the office three times at different times, so what happened later was different. The first time, Lola broke in before Dad's mistress had finished speaking, so Dad decided to divorce , and told Lola that she was not his biological daughter; the second time, the mistress had time to tell the truth, and the father and the mistress quarreled, so Lola's family did not break up. The third time, Lola didn't see Dad because Mr. Miles arrived at the bank on time, but this time difference also led to the later car accident between Mr. Miles and Dad. And the boy who stole the car, the female bank clerk, the ambulance, etc., all because the difference in the first 3 seconds made life go in a very different direction. Seemingly unrelated people are strung together by a series of coincidences, like the dominoes played on TV at the beginning of the film. Once the first piece is knocked down, the rest will also change. No one knows who pushed them forward, nor how they influenced the fate of others. We are all a small piece of a domino, a link in someone else's life. The theme of the film presents some possibilities for everyone. Would my life be different if I went out for a few seconds earlier or later today?
Also, what impressed me about the film was its structure, music, editing.
The structure of the film is block-like. Except for the part that connects the beginning and the 3 runs, the film is generally composed of Lola's 3 runs. Each time the route is basically the same, the process is different, and the results are completely different. , lost thousands of miles. This is the most interesting part of the film. Another thing that is special is the three 20-minute runs that Lola ran to save Manny in the movie, which is also 20 minutes in reality. The movie time is the same as the real time, which I haven't seen in other movies.
As Lola ran, it was always accompanied by fast-paced music. It effectively rendered the atmosphere, made the audience's emotions tense with the music, and accelerated the rhythm of the film.
The editing is funny and fast paced, creating enough emotion for this simple story. For example, when Manny said on the phone that the homeless person who took the 100,000 marks may have gone all over the world, the screen kept switching between the iconic buildings in various cities. Another example is that every time Lola passes by a passer-by, the screen will switch to what will happen to the passer-by in the future. This editing method is not to let the audience see each picture clearly, but to let the audience get an overall feeling from several consecutive pictures. I think this approach is very novel, and it is also very appropriate to use in this film.
The above is just a little bit of my opinion, in general it is a good movie. Only Lola's scream is suspected of plagiarizing the little boy Oscar's scream in
(This is an introduction to art that I will submit tomorrow. Homework. I haven't written a movie review for 2 years, I forgot how to write it, sorry.)
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