Run Lola Run

The butterfly effect (Chaos Theory), the idea that if a butterfly beats its wings in Hong Kong there will be a hurricane on Long Island. Run Lola Run applies this idea to a more local setting. How can the small things that happen to us on a daily basis affect the bigger picture.

Lola has to get 100,000 deutsche Marks for her boy friend in 20 minutes, or he will get offed by his boss. The movie repeats the 20 minutes in 3 ways. Each time the same type of events occur, and each time she handles them differently. Each time the lives of the people she comes into contact with change.

Run Lola does not have incredible special effects or intensively choreographed action scenes, but it has action none the less. For a lot of the time she is running. Who wouldn't run in that situation. She comes into contact with three small characters. The woman with a baby either ends up murdered, rich, or converted to christianity. Two other characters, including a byciclist, have the same fast fowarded poloroid lives shown to us. The movie is suggesting that peoples lives can go in any direction. Rich, poor, dead, alive. This helps us make our own endings for Lola when they finally succeed in obtaining an extra 100,000 Marks.

Lola is not only reliving the 20 minutes over an over again, in a ground hog day type fashion, but she is learning every time. In the begining she is not sure if she loves Manny, but in the end she is positive. She learns how the safety on a gun works. We also learn things about her that she knows in one take but doesnt in the last. For instance she is not her father's real daughter. The Father's lover is pregnant with another man's child.

This was an entertaining movie. The constant running montages with the repetive music was a bit annoying bit it had an interesting function and operation. It twisted reality just enough for us to be able to learn truths about the real world. Specifically, life can go in completely different directions, depending on the small choices we make. This is only going to make my decision making problem even worse.

Final rating: 3.9