MOVIE REACTION Run Lola Run (1999) PATRON PICK First Time Watching Reaction/Review
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Third time's the charm, as they say
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Spent the whole film in resistance telling it what you wanted it to be rather than embracing the experience it provides and the questions it seeks to raise. It's a Postmodern, experimental film, with Hopscotch roots, utilizing non-linear narrative structure to explore self-awareness, decision making, and how the interpersonal impacts our lives. Franke Potente's performance helped secure her the role in the Bourne films. Alias came out a few years later & was also inspired by certain aesthetics within the hit film. Tom Tykwer later went on to co-direct the heady Cloud Atlas adaptation.
My group of friends at the time were mostly theater/film students and we heard buzz about "Lola rennt" We had to drive an hour to the nearest theater that was showing it... and it was worth it. We were gobsmacked. Brilliant filmmaking. We brought another group of people to watch the next weekend. Still one of my favorite foreign flims.
Also, because even I didn't realize this after seeing it 10 times; the guy in the ambulance is the security officer in the bank that Lola takes the gun from. If you notice he sort of grips his chest or looks kind of uncomfortable in the first two segments, because he has a heart problem in the ambulance is called for him.
This has remained one of my favorites since I saw it in either late 1999 or 2000. It really holds up for me. They don't make movies like this anymore for some reason.
although you say it's just three separate scenarios, remember in second attempt she knew about turning off the gun safety she learned in the first. So it's not quite so simple, and I like that it doesn't try explaining it.
Funny story, I discovered Run Lola Run because in 1999 me and my college buddies were in Blockbuster Video, saw the cover, and momentarily mistook Franka Potente with the red hair for Milla Jovovich from The Fifth Element. Talk about making the right choice for the wrong reasons! I think we figured out the mistake before we rented it, but none of us had heard of it at the time, despite some of us being fairly interested in independent and international film. (We *did* eventually hear people talking about it, but only after we'd seen it.)
Run Lola Run got a lot of comparison to Sliding Doors, a US indie film that came out around the same time. In 1999 Sliding Doors was definitely the better known of the two, at least in the US, but other than the branching timeline conceit they're apparently not very similar. (I haven't seen Sliding Doors myself.) And regardless, Run Lola Run made a far longer-lasting impression and had a much bigger ultimate cultural influence. The banger soundtrack was a big part of that, I suspect. As an electronic music fan, you'd better *believe* I bought the album as soon as the movie was over. (The director Tom Tykwer was also one of the musicians, and Lola's actress Franka Potente sang extensively for it.)
The changes in media make a lot more sense when you notice *when* it switches from traditional film to handheld: it's when neither Lola nor Manni are in the scene. My interpretation is that it's emphasizing that the movie is about Lola's subjective feelings about the world: Manni is recorded in film because Lola cares about him, whereas the events with neither Lola nor Manni are less meaningful to Lola herself, so they're rendered via camcorder, which in 1999's visual language was "more objective and authentic" compared to the editing magic of film. I recall that Tykwer has spoken quite a bit about the choices he made in crafting the film, and I recall this topic in particular as one he discussed, so I'd recommend looking up interviews with him if you want to know more.
I don't think Lola has any screaming-based superpowers nor any conscious awareness of the other timelines, but maybe remembers a few things subconsciously. They're both meant, I'm sure, as storytelling devices and not as literally true. Overall the film is exploring the emotional consequences of the butterfly effect -- little-b butterfly, the idea from chaos theory, not the movie of the same name that did the idea dirty -- and about how at the end of the day we're all just gambling on how our futures turn out. The film's presented conclusion is that love and compassion (e.g. Lola climbing into the ambulance and holding the security guard's hand) are the best way we have to nudge the odds in our favor... and maybe there's a vaguely Christian religious subtext hiding in there, too, about putting faith in God / some other higher power that things will turn out okay in the end. The screaming sort of functions as a prayer, in my view, or maybe less religiously as a plea for compassion from the universe itself.
As mentioned by other commenters: the man in the ambulance having the heart attack is the bank security guard who teased Lola earlier (Herr Schuster), who is also the man who kicks the soccer ball in the opening and speaks of everything else but the game's rules being pure theory. In the first two time loops, we see him clutch his chest in pain. I think he's the one in the ambulance in all three loops, but obviously we don't see confirmation of that for the first two.
The scenes with Manni and the blind lady are shaded with meaning because they're a mother-and-son acting duo, which was clear to German audiences but mostly lost on international ones from what I gather. Her pointing at the right moment, and the security guard's offhand "you finally came" line in the third loop, leaves a faint implication that those two characters, too, have been receiving subconscious knowledge of other timelines, even though they're not "main characters". Why? Well, it's because *every* human does, something that Lola forgets in the first two loops, and it happens so often we don't really notice because we have no context to understand those flashes of knowledge or where they come from. The idea is that: sometimes we do little random things that turn out in hindsight to have caused the world to turn out the way it did, and we get the chance to do those because "God" -- or whatever supernatural force decides on the "true" timeline -- is giving us those little moments of mysterious knowledge that steer us forward. We get little nudges in the right direction now and then, but it's left up to us to choose how to use them, so as to not spoil the theological-philosophical concept of free will.
This movie soundtrack is iconic. I have owned a copy since 1999. European techno at its finest.
In January 1999 the DM was replaced by the Euro. At that time 100000 DM was worth roughly 56000 USD
Closer to $62,411 USD.
i do remember the feeling i had when i saw this movie for the first time; it was one year in 1999 after i moved to Atl and from work & school i needed some kind of release and this film gave it to me, i knew i would have enjoy it after hearing about it a year earlier
btw: no one had any special power (you need to forget all these recent films that have ruined audience's interpretation of other films) like the casino scene that was her superstition (the roulette 20 represent 20 minutes), we all have different ways of coping with life which doesn't affect the outcome
the patient in the ambulance was the security guard and the narrator at the start of the film
i just remembered i too used the roller coaster analogy but instead i say it takes you up a hill then dropped you then it does it again and the third time it takes you up and just leave you
third year film student in 99 when my prof showed us this film. our minds were blown. this and memento were my faves in film school.
I had such a crush on franka potante back then. She was also in Born Identity
Despite having seen the Bourne films, they didn't even clock her. RLR's success got her that role.
i also kind of felt like this move was the beginning of a great idea but needed further fleshing out.
I love this movie, it's all about the art of the movie, and the emotions, not so much something logical
speaking of special years, you might enjoy checking out the academy award winners of 1939
I think the movie is just a fun surreal kinda movie. I liked the soundtrack and Fanka Portente. You can see her in The Bourne Identity movies. Also in a show called Copper. She sang the song, "I Believe" as well.
she was also in the series 'The Shield'. Amazing performance there as well.
@@daviddalke926 Really? I think I only saw the first couple seasons of f that. I did not know. Thanks!
@@artboymoy She shows up in season 6 and its an amazing character.
Nice choice. As a German, this is one of the few German movies I can really recommend to foreign viewers. Not that there hasn't been good German cinema over the years - in the early days of cinema, a lot of innovation and classics of cinema history even came from here - but a lot of the stuff I like doesn't seem to work well without the cultural background and context.
Another exception and a fantastic movie in general is "Das Boot" - one of the best anti-war movies ever made IMO.
I do love the tv series "DARK". That might be fun for a reaction.
@@artboymoy True. That's a great German production, definitely worth a watch.
Watch "the Princess and the Warrior"!!!!!!
I think i never seen you this confused, dont worry, it takes time and several views to notice all the details. Trust me, it makes sense.