Run Lola Run

Tom Twyker's 1998 film "Run Lola Run", a mind-bending, heart-pounding, intense and neurotic journey, leaves its audience wanting more and "leaves you slightly breathless with admiration." (Judith Egerton, Courier-Journal, RottenTomatoes.com). "Run Lola Run"'s plot finds a young couple, Lola and Manni, battling the nemesis of time as a money deal has gone horribly wrong and 100,000 marks, 20 minutes and Lola are the only things standing between Manni and his death. Irony, flashbacks, dream sequences and different scenarios emit the emotions that spectators feel while watching this film. The different shots and camera angles aid in conveying these feelings. The film's title is perfect because the camera follows Lola as she runs through the streets of Berlin in attempts to deliver the money to her beau. The electric techno and jungle beats echo the rhythm of her pace and create a mood of neuroticism and intensity. Doubt rings out in the minds of the spectator as he or she wonders "Will she get the money or will she fail?". Cameras positioned on the red telephone used to dial Manni's number tumbling down on the receiver and the bag falling from the sky reveal the hopelessness of the scenarios in which Lola has failed to achieve her task. The close-up of the gold clock in the casino focuses an air of dread as one realizes that there is a deadline to be met. Dream sequences throughout the film show Lola and Manni lying in bed together, engaging in heavy conversation. When asked what Lola would do if Manni were to die right then, she replies "But Manni, you haven't died yet." and the camera immediately switches to his beaten and bloody face just after he has been hit by a bus. "Run Lola Run" answers and raises the question of love's strength and just to what lengths people will go for love.

Run Lola Run