“What is the special thing that makes the outcome of each of the three plotlines different?"

Mayra Dayane Suacedo Suárez

01163293

Jochen Siess

Homework feb 28

“What is the special thing that makes the outcome of each of the three plotlines different?"

    Run Lola Run is a german movie premiered in 1998. The director Tom Tywker tells the story of a young couple that is involved in a mafia conflict in which they have only 20 minutes to solve a 100,000 deutschmarks and deliver them to the mafia chief. Suspense is the permanent emotion the spectator has during the film. From the very beginning the animated introduction to the movie is full of colors, face expressions and dynamic graphics that cause tension and a rush feeling in the watcher. Every short story that constitutes this long movie is full of suspense situations that takes the watcher to the extreme of an adrenaline rush because of the speed the story is being told.

    Even when the whole story is based on a 20 minutes trip and adventure to save Lola’s boyfriend life, there are many climatic and turning points that make each of the three stories different and unique. Many elements give cohesion to the whole story:  first the main problem that has been described before, second the people Lola sees every time she runs, third, the time in which the trouble should be solved , fourth the main characters of the story (Lola and Many) and finally the visions. The whole visions Lola has during the movie and the reflections she makes are key points to understand the movie because based on those reflections and foreshadowing the denouement of the story will be determined. There are many elements that repeat in each story but the development of each is different every time we see the story again.

    There are three short stories inside the movie. Every story is different and has key elements or actions that makes the story change and there for the possibility of achieving the goal or solving the threat changes. One of the elements that make the story jump from failing the mission to achieving the goal is Lola´s decisions of what is worth of consideration and time investment and what is not. During her first trip, Lola decides to run super fast and she did pay attention to some distractions but all the time she spends with his father’s explanations and being clam just to take her out the bank and offend her is crucial for her to arrive before his boyfriend rob the supermarket. In the second trip, Lola decides to ask the ambulance to take her to where her boyfriend is and waste some time doing that. The few seconds in which the ambulance denies to take her and the crash of the glass are crucial moments to make the ambulance intercept Manny while he is crossing the street making the mission not being accomplished.

   

    During the third short movie, time, observations and decisions are crucial t to the story. Lola realizes that the polite way of making things is not working and decides to change her manners. She do not even crash with people (like she did before with the lady and the baby) and she decides just to run and get what she wants and not to think about how to get it. Suddenly she realizes of a way out of her problem but she needed more than just to open her eyes actually a bus that is about to run over her seems to be the shook she needed to wake up. She observes, watch a casino and decide to get money from there. She is not longer submitted she knows what she wants and would not accept a not for answer. In this third short story Lola speaks up her mind and that is a determinant factor too, because it made the guy with the bicycle help the homeless man who stole the money bag. Manny also observes and watch the homeless man who stole his bag with money and decides to catch him. Everything turns right and Lola and Manny even end the story with 100,000 deutschmarks extra.

    As a conclusion spectators can suppose that determination, observation and time management are the main key elements that make the plotline of the three stories different and exciting. Every time that Lola do something different something changes but the very main changes occur when she decides to observe, speak up, get what she needs without asking for it and being determined to  get it. She started to focus on her objective and not in the medium for making it real. At the end what is really important to make Lola’s goal possible was to focus, observe, think and decide to do something, mainly DECISIONS or CHOISES are what make things be different from one occasion to another. It might sound bad but in the case of an emergency, in the movie at least, taking a chance on being rude and neither thinking nor wasting time on guessing what the others could think is what really worked for Lola.

“What is the special thing that makes the outcome of each of the three plotlines different?"

 Mayra Dayane Suacedo Suárez

01163293

Jochen Siess

Homework feb 28

“What is the special thing that makes the outcome of each of the three plotlines different?"

   Run Lola Run is a german movie premiered in 1998. The director Tom Tywker tells the story of a young couple that is involved in a mafia conflict in which they have only 20 minutes to solve a 100,000 deutschmarks and deliver them to the mafia chief. Suspense is the permanent emotion the spectator has during the film. From the very beginning the animated introduction to the movie is full of colors, face expressions and dynamic graphics that cause tension and a rush feeling in the watcher. Every short story that constitutes this long movie is full of suspense situations that takes the watcher to the extreme of an adrenaline rush because of the speed the story is being told.

   Even when the whole story is based on a 20 minutes trip and adventure to save Lola’s boyfriend life, there are many climatic and turning points that make each of the three stories different and unique. Many elements give cohesion to the whole story:  first the main problem that has been described before, second the people Lola sees every time she runs, third, the time in which the trouble should be solved , fourth the main characters of the story (Lola and Many) and finally the visions. The whole visions Lola has during the movie and the reflections she makes are key points to understand the movie because based on those reflections and foreshadowing the denouement of the story will be determined. There are many elements that repeat in each story but the development of each is different every time we see the story again.

   There are three short stories inside the movie. Every story is different and has key elements or actions that makes the story change and there for the possibility of achieving the goal or solving the threat changes. One of the elements that make the story jump from failing the mission to achieving the goal is Lola´s decisions of what is worth of consideration and time investment and what is not. During her first trip, Lola decides to run super fast and she did pay attention to some distractions but all the time she spends with his father’s explanations and being clam just to take her out the bank and offend her is crucial for her to arrive before his boyfriend rob the supermarket. In the second trip, Lola decides to ask the ambulance to take her to where her boyfriend is and waste some time doing that. The few seconds in which the ambulance denies to take her and the crash of the glass are crucial moments to make the ambulance intercept Manny while he is crossing the street making the mission not being accomplished.

   During the third short movie, time, observations and decisions are crucial t to the story. Lola realizes that the polite way of making things is not working and decides to change her manners. She do not even crash with people (like she did before with the lady and the baby) and she decides just to run and get what she wants and not to think about how to get it. Suddenly she realizes of a way out of her problem but she needed more than just to open her eyes actually a bus that is about to run over her seems to be the shook she needed to wake up. She observes, watch a casino and decide to get money from there. She is not longer submitted she knows what she wants and would not accept a not for answer. In this third short story Lola speaks up her mind and that is a determinant factor too, because it made the guy with the bicycle help the homeless man who stole the money bag. Manny also observes and watch the homeless man who stole his bag with money and decides to catch him. Everything turns right and Lola and Manny even end the story with 100,000 deutschmarks extra.

   As a conclusion spectators can suppose that determination, observation and time management are the main key elements that make the plotline of the three stories different and exciting. Every time that Lola do something different something changes but the very main changes occur when she decides to observe, speak up, get what she needs without asking for it and being determined to  get it. She started to focus on her objective and not in the medium for making it real. At the end what is really important to make Lola’s goal possible was to focus, observe, think and decide to do something. It might sound bad but in the case of an emergency, in the movie at least, taking a chance on being rude and not thinking nor wasting time on guessing what the others could think is what really worked for Lola.