Lola Rennt

You look at the publicity of a movie, there's only a girl with red hair running on the cover but just because of that it drags immediately your attention, why is she running? So you buy it to discover why is she running so desperately about, but trough almost all the movie the thing we see the most is this girl called Lola, just running, both things you already knew or guessed by just reading the cover, nevertheless, since the beginning the movie would maintain you captured by the history, by the up-coming outcome (or in this case possible outcomes), of getting to know if she’s going to make it or not trough the end. Thus by maintaining the same events and characters and time, making the developments in each plotline happen in a different way, hence making it the special thing that makes us wait for each of the three plotlines different outcomes.

First of all, we have to talk about the fact that time seems to change all events. Even tough, in the movie we know Lola had the same amount of time trough the three plotlines still in each one of them, time seems to either slow down (making us, watchers, waiting for the outcome almost unbearable at times), like the plotline in which Lola waits for the baker to go fetch the money that is missing to full-fill her requirement amount and then walking out of there, or rather making it [time]seem it went so fast, hence like when she arrives to the store to meet with her boyfriend Manni who has just stole the money they needed from there and end up [both of them]being tracked down too quickly by the police. Clearly then, time would eventually fit or adjust to circumstances making the father of Lola unaware trough a plot that he’s not the father of a baby his lover is having or would stretch in order to let Lola gamble her way out of her money troubles.

On the other hand, as time seems to affect people’s decisions in the end people would be also affecting other people’s outcomes. In other words, people’s decision and time changes would be essential when talking about an outcome, for example: when Lola goes out of the door in the three of the plotlines we see a child with a dog, both in the stairs all the time, in one plotline the kid would interfere by kicking Lola in the foot, in the second one the dog would bite her or in the third one Lola would eventually avoid them, nevertheless, time would change from that moment, that little or almost no time lost would make every different outcome different. The dog bite or kid kick would make her go slower or faster to encounter the man in the car either by avoiding him or totally jumping through his car, jumping trough the stairs would make time change in order to avoid hitting the lady on the street (changing her life outcome by only that encounter), answering something to the guy in the stolen bike, or shouting to the bank woman (all of them changing their life outcomes, which we find out trough pictures of their soon-to-be life).

Finally but not last, the main issue holding the three outcomes together is the fact that we know destiny would never change, destiny would always maintain its balance. Even if time events and decision making can change; there are some facts that would always remain the same. Someone would have to die in the development of the plotline, Lola dies in the first plot, Manny in the second, and the guy in the ambulance in the third one seems to be heading that way. Moreover, trough the plot eventually someone will crash a car, here we can mention the ambulance going through the glass or the guy in the car (whom we later learn is a friend of Lola’s father) crashing into another car. Besides that, objects would have also an important role appearance, therefore in each plot a gun would be shot one or several times (when stealing the shop, threatening the father or the vagabond) and money would be acquired (by stealing the store, stealing the bank or gambling to get it).

In conclusion, what makes Run Lola Run a fantastic movie that would be able to keep you interested in knowing what’s going to happen next is the fact that time, and events would always maintain their self so that besides we know what are the factors involved around each developing story we will still want to know the possible outcome or change in variables that would make them [the characters] rather succeeded or fail in their goal of delivering the money they had just lost and maintain their selves alive.