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Today, 20 years ago, a film with an investment of only US$2 million was released in Germany.
Fast editing, non-linear narrative, live-action animation, smart soundtrack, and two lovable protagonists. The 34-year-old director Tom-Tykwer became famous overnight with this "Rola Run" .
Most people's first reaction when they hear this movie is that Laura's red hair is full of flames. In almost every scene of the movie, Laura is running, running non-stop, to save her boyfriend Manny, for life, for love. After seeing it, your heartbeat will beat with Laura's red hair.
Some people think this movie is like a video game. The screen is full of red for the heroine, yellow for the hero, and green for tragedy.
Lola's running is the process of breaking through the level. The three stories are restarting the game three times. After hanging up twice in a row, he finally cleared the level perfectly for the third time.
Director Tom Tykway is indeed a game fan. He once said that other people could say that he didn't make a good movie, but he would be angry if he said that he didn't play the game well. However, the charm of "Lola Run" is not just the shell of the game. After all, the development of game movies for 20 years has reached the level of "Number One Player". Compared with the gorgeous picture effects of the latter in 2018, "Rola Run" in 1998 is equivalent to an 8bit retro game.
Tom Tykway did a very wise thing when filming "Lola Run", that is, he focused on the narrative reform under the condition of extremely limited budget.
This film uses a non-linear narrative structure like the 1994 "Pulp Fiction". "Pulp Fiction" uses a circular narrative structure. The short stories are connected end to end, disrupting the sequence, and the audience will get the pleasure of puzzles. "Lola Run" uses a three-stage repetitive narrative structure. Although the main story is that "Lola must find one hundred thousand marks in 20 minutes to save Manny", in fact they are three separate stories. , Because of the different choices of Laura and Manny, the situation has led to different endings. The ending of the first story is Lola's death, the second ending is Manny's death, and the third one is happy. Not only is the ending of each story different, but the fate of the characters in the story is also greatly changed by Laura and Manny.
While running, Laura met a dog, a woman pushing a stroller, a boy stealing a bicycle, Mr. Meyer driving out, a homeless man picking up a bag, a security guard at the gate, an ambulance, and finally rushed to Mannyo. Good meeting place. Everyone along the way was originally a passer-by in Lola's life, but Lola and their unconscious actions had a huge impact on each other.
For example, Mr. Meyer, a friend of Laura's father. For the first time Lola ran past his door, Meyer slowed down and hit the gangster's car, unable to pick up Lola's father on time.
In the second story, Laura was tripped by the dog owner when she was going downstairs, so everything was slow. Lola stepped on the hood of his car as he passed the door of Mr. Meyer's house, and then he ran into the gangster's car. The two golden chain brothers got off. It's just that the location of the collision was different, this time it was a rear-end collision.
For the third time, Laura jumped directly over the vicious dog when she went downstairs, and everything after that had a different rhythm. Another difference is that this time Lola no longer rashly bumps into others.
She did not hit the woman pushing the stroller, so the woman did not go home with anger and quarrel with her alcoholic husband like in the first story, and then lost the custody of the child and became a woman in the park. Crazy woman who steals other people's children.
She didn't ignore Mr. Meyer and ran over, nor stepped on his car rudely, but lay on the car and greeted him. So Mr. Meyer didn't hit the gangster car.
Brother Golden Chain's car whizzed past, and Mr. Meyer knew nothing about his fate.
After that, Mr. Meyer went to the appointment on time and picked up Lola's father. Although Lola was very upset at the time, the audience who had seen the first two stories knew that, so that Lola would not be humiliated by his father and would not know the dirty secrets of the family.
The director used this method to explain why Laura and Manny had three different endings. Although Tom Tykway is a fan of games, he is not obsessed with violence. Instead, he filmed a naive fairy tale. In this story, the omnipotent is not violence, but love and kindness and all good things.
For the first time, Lola failed to ask her father for help, and helped Manny, who had nowhere to go, rob the supermarket with violence. She lost the value of being an independent person and was shot dead by the police;
The second time, Lola failed to ask her father for help. She herself became the perpetrator of violence and robbed her father's company to get one hundred thousand marks. Manny no longer makes sense, so Manny dies;
For the third time, both Laura and Manny gave up violence. Laura emptied her meager family and went into the casino and used her unique ability to make a fortune; Manny met a beggar who took the money. He who had a gun in his hand just rushed to catch up with the beggar, and then used the gun in exchange to get back ten. Wanmark.
In the end, Manny handed over a bag of money and gave the boss a satisfactory explanation. Looking back, he saw that there was another bag of money in Laura's hand. The gangster and the rich girl must have lived a happy life ever since.
There is also a small detail about religion that can save the world. Laura met a group of nuns while running. In the first two times, she walked directly through the crowd and broke up the line. The nuns watched Lola run away with dissatisfaction. And for the third time, Lola ran a few steps to the side and bypassed the nun.
"Lola Run" tells us how a little good change affects the direction of the whole thing step by step. Maybe it wants to express the magic of the butterfly effect, maybe life is a chaotic game, but as a player of this game, no one should give up fighting (running), shouldn't give up kindness, shouldn't give up love ability. I think the director should have been so convinced over the years, because he made the cuter "Super Sensation Hunting" series.
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