The thief who stole the Rolla motorcycle at the beginning of the film. Manny took back the 100,000 mark with his gun, and delivered the money to the boss on time, gaining the boss's trust; on the way to rendezvous with Manny, Lola got on the ambulance along the way, and Saved Uncle Meyer's life with his supernatural powers. Carrying the 100,000 marks won, Laura's face showed a smile for the first time.
From the perspective of the film's narrative, the whole film is composed of four parts: the three paragraphs of Laura's running and the origin of the story (that is, why Manny lost the 100,000 mark, of course, it is also full of contingency factors for this accident). . In the three 20-minute running passages, we will notice that the passage with a real narrative nature seems to have only the first 20 minutes. Because there are obvious narrative motivations and the audience's attention to the fate of the protagonist in this passage: 20 minutes has become the driving force for the development of the story, and the result is even more interesting-in 20 minutes, Lola can Raised money to save her boyfriend? If this seemingly "impossible task" is not completed, what will be the result? So when they successfully rob the supermarket and rush to the street with the sound of music like God's caress , The hanging heart of the audience finally let go; and when the police blocked every street, the young couple was about to become a turtle in the urn, and the audience's hearts hung again; especially when the bullet of the police escaped Lola's young life instantly The audience may sympathize or regret, but there will be a common suspense: the film has only been screened for 30 minutes, and the heroine is dead. How will the story develop? Obviously, the audience’s emotions have always been involved in the entire plot development process. But in the second and third running passages, the audience's emotions and attention to the protagonist's fate are no longer needed. After Lola was killed by the police, there was a scene in the underworld in which the hero and heroine discussed the issue of love. After Lola came back to life and started running again. At this point we finally understand that the protagonist in the film will not die, even if he is dead, he can come back from the dead (in the second running paragraph, Manny's death and resurrection proves this again). Therefore, the underworld section has made a good transition between the real narrative and the following two large sections. Because of this, the latter two sections have lost the narrative nature and only become a game. Time is no longer the driving force for the development of the plot, and the audience does not need to worry about the fate of the protagonist anymore. We only need one word, and that is "GO! GO". If we analyze further, we will find that when you watch the complete movie, and then look back at the origin part of the story and Laura’s first run, in fact, it is not really telling the story, but a part of the game or one of the processes. Therefore, in fact, we have fallen into the "trap" set by the director that allows you to enter the story situation. Perhaps,
If the above analysis is reasonable, then it can be said that the gameplay of this game is endless, because there will be too many accidental factors in the game that lead to the success or failure of the game, and as long as it does not conform to the wishes of the player Or if you fail to pass the level, we can press the "STOP" button and let Laura run for you again. The director of "Lola Run" just selected the most interesting three gameplays and three endings among countless gameplays that best conveyed his philosophical thoughts to form the film. In Lola's three runs, her process (from home to her father's bank to the meeting place with Manny) was almost the same, and the reason for the different results was precisely because of the various contacts with Lola on the run. People and things: gangsters and evil dogs who got in the way when they first ran out of the house, women pushing strollers at the corners of the street, thieves who stole bicycles, father, Uncle Meyer, workers crossing the road with glass, red ambulances, etc. Wait, it is the subtle changes of these factors that led to the change of the fortunes of Laura and Manny, and of course the victory or defeat of the game; on the other hand, Laura's actions also changed the fate of other people, as appeared twice in the film. In the “domino” lens of “Domino”, individual people are affected by other cards like a domino in it, and at the same time other cards are affected. Life is just like a game. Once you enter a certain prescribed situation, you will There is no escape and no choice. In this regard, subject to special paper for
discussion of the door.
Someone once asked a rather interesting question: Why didn't Lola "fight"? This is indeed a thought-provoking question. In fact, a taxi once appeared in the film - in the origin part of the story, Laura, who was stolen from the motorcycle, had to take a taxi to meet Manny on time, but the car was carrying her by mistake. Went to another place with the same name. However, since then, taxis have never been seen in the streets of Berlin that appeared in the film.
Obviously, if this kind of situation really appeared in Berlin at the end of the 20th century, it would be incredible, and of course it would not be an omission by the director. Then the reason that can explain this question can only be: the scene in the film is not a realistic real scene, but just a virtual scene. In this scenario, the designer of the game deliberately did not provide Rolla with a possibility to take a taxi. Rolla can only run like a fate, and complete the 20-minute rescue operation by running, which is actually created by the game designer. In the checkpoint, if you neglect a little, you will lose all the games-either you will not raise 100,000 marks, or you will lose your life. Lola is just a hero who has grown and matured through the passages time and time again. In other words, Lola can only rely on the reasonable use of the available conditions provided by the game creator to successfully break through the barriers for herself. It is of course wishful thinking to dream of obtaining a universal tool to win the game. Laura used the two tools provided by the creator of the game-guns and ambulances, and the special features designed for Laura-screaming to save her boyfriend.
In the first and second paragraphs of the film, the gun is the authoritative tool for Laura and Manny to obtain ill-gotten wealth. Without the gun, whether it is a robbery of the supermarket or forcing his father to take out 100,000 marks, it will be futile. During the robbing of the supermarket, the security guard's gun had been aimed at Manny, and the development of the situation had failed. It was the late Lola who defeated the security guard and took his gun, which made the situation turn around, but at this time Lola did not know. how to use this "stuff", such as Manny taught her
how to open insurance. Although the fired bullets scared the security guard, it was only because Laura was too nervous and went off. But in the second segment, Lola was able to use it freely - Lola snatched the pistol from the waist of the bank security and pointed it at her father. When the security said "girl, you won't use this thing", Lola Skillfully opened the insurance and consciously fired two bullets. Obviously, Lola learned how to use a gun after the first pass, and served her purpose (raising money).
This "growth" is more clearly reflected in the relationship between Rolla and the ambulance. In the first section, she ran on the street without realizing that the ambulance parked in the middle of the road while waiting for the workers carrying the glass to cross the road was a useful means of transportation; in the second section, Rolla obviously I have realized that this is an available "condition", but because of the driver's refusal, he easily gave up; in the third segment, Lola is already a fully-fledged hero, when the ambulance is parked and waiting to lift the glass. When the worker crossed the road, he pulled the door and got into the car without hesitation. In the car, he saved Uncle Meyer, who was dying due to a car accident, by relying on a special function he didn't understand. Western philosophers once said: People cannot step into the same river twice. In a realistic situation, because of the non-repeatability of time, it can only be "this time", it can only be the current experience, and it cannot be assumed. , And there is no choice, but the process of Lola’s growth and maturity is completed by "repeated practice" in the same scene. Obviously this is the result of a hypothesis or choice. This "repeated process" can only appear when you can repeatedly pass through in the game.
In addition to providing guns and ambulances for the characters in the film, the creator of the game also gave Laura a special function ---screaming, maybe Tekovo is using it to represent the representative of the new German movie- ——A tribute to Schrondorf. In Schrondorf’s “Tin Drum”, the protagonist Oscar shatters glass products with screams: clock face, teacher’s glasses, specimen bottles in the doctor’s office, etc., to resist the traditional, Ugly adult society. Lola's scream is as powerful as Oscar - shattering glass products, and the scream has made her the task of saving Manny. In the film, Lola's three screams are also used just like a gun and an ambulance. : The first time she screamed was when Manny called Lola for help, she used the scream to stop Manny's mother-in-law's nagging and grievances; the second time she appeared when she asked her father for help, but her father was indifferent. When she treated her daughter's plea, she shattered the glass objects in her father's office by screaming, but at best she could vent the anger and dissatisfaction in her heart. The third time he screamed, he made the ball in the gambling plate stop firmly on the number (20) he had bet, thus winning 100,000 marks.
In short, the game characteristics of the film are fully reflected in the setting of the plot (in fact, the setting of the game program). The game program does not provide a convenient taxi for Rolla, and Rolla must be successful in a fast running non-stop, which is the real reason for "Why didn't Rolla hit the taxi".
The game characteristics of "Lola Run" are also reflected in the construction of character relationships. On the surface, "Lola Run" is a classic and old-fashioned love story, but Tekewo has transformed it in two aspects. The first is to rewrite the hero saves the beauty as "the beauty saves the hero", and the second is to set the heroine's identity as both a beauty and a hero, "one body has two roles". And Manny is actually not a real hero, in a sense, he is just a "bear". Laura and Ben always in
stark contrast to the scene to run, Manny can live in their own struggle, always doing nothing, just to save his girlfriend as his only way out. Therefore, Manny is always in a state of waiting for salvation, using the phone booth as a life-saving straw: he keeps calling for help, and he is furious at the phone if he fails to ask for help. Even in the act of robbing the supermarket to save himself, if Lola hadn't arrived in time, his action would have failed at the beginning-the security gun was aimed at him, and he had to lay down his weapon and give up the action. Lola's help made the operation itself a success. In the film, the only time Manny struggled for his destiny, like Laura, was to chase the tramp who took his money in the third segment, but this action still failed to prove that he was a hero. The process of getting the money back was ironic: he borrowed the blind
After the woman's calling card was used to make the call, she was instructed by the blind woman (again, a woman and blind), and found the tramp who had picked up the money. Under the guidance of the blind, she found the "target" except that Manny was an incompetent person. In addition, no other explanation can be given; at the same time, in the process of chasing the tramp, neither the strength nor the speed can be compared with Rolla, and this incompetent chasing also caused a serious car accident --- Rolla's Both his father and motorcycle thieves were killed, and Uncle Meyer was also seriously injured. What is more worthy of our attention is that the real reason for chasing homeless people from running away and returning the money to Manny obediently is not in chasing itself, but in fear of the gun in Manny's hand. Manny used a gun twice (the other time he used it in a supermarket robbery), but unlike Lola using a gun twice, Manny's gun seems to be more "fake tigers" because Lola has been in the supermarket and his father's bank three times. Shot, and the gun in Manny's hand is more like a decoration or a
sign of identity . Therefore, in the relationship between characters, if Laura’s main state is "movement", Manny's main state is "static", one "moving" and one "quiet", one "hero" and one "bear", the film's " The "feminist" color is self-evident, and from the perspective of the game, there should be no doubt about the role of Laura as a passer and a savior. In this way, Manny has become an innocent "by". The savior" is taken for granted.
As a hero and savior, in addition to the constant running and maturity of the above analysis, Lola is also clearly expressed in her shape: a red hair burning like a flame, full of youthful vitality, in her body we see: Her body is immortal, and her will and spirit are indestructible. At the same time, we analyze the cartoon characteristics of Lola. In addition to the identity of the savior, there is another identity as the game's passer. More accurately, she is actually a stand-in for Tekovo and the movie audience in the film. It is we who give her strength, will, emotions and thoughts. We will endure the pain of failure and the joy of success with her in this game. In the 80-minute movie, the only time Laura smiled was at the end of the film: after Manny finally handed over the lost 100,000 marks to the boss, he came to Laura and asked Laura about the "bag" in his hand. What is it?" Lola smiled slightly, the image was frozen, and the whole film stopped abruptly. Perhaps Laura's smile is exactly the expression on the faces of the director and the audience.
In contemporary movies, "Lola Run" can be said to be a rather peculiar film no matter from the narrative point of view or from the perspective of the plot structure. It has a considerable distance from the traditional story film. We can only classify such a film into the category of "postmodernism". In fact, "game" is one of the characteristics of postmodernism. Postmodernism sanctity, order, conventional, traditional and so deeply skeptical one hand, they suspect that the true realism of
nature, on the other hand also suspected romantic utopia, even for the modernist performance anxiety, loneliness, and Desperate and skeptical, so they often use games to dissolve depth and meaning; in performance, the mixed use of styles and types are also a distinctive feature. The American movie "Bad Boy" Quentin Tower Perez has bluntly said: "actually, I play every point is copied here, where copy point, then mix them together if do not like.
Huan, then, do not look at the big audience, I just copied around the plot. Great artists always copy the bridge, stealing, not a fucking tribute." "Lola Run" is a mixture of comedy, action, gangster, gangster, cartoon and other genres, and the whole film is in the video. The above is made up of high-speed rhythm, picture segmentation, video, animation and other multimedia and editing techniques to form a text with the characteristics of electronic games.
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