Tykwer's "Run Lola Run"

"In a society that has abolished all adventure, the only adventure is to destroy that society." That's a big part of what I now like about Run Lola Run since talking in class about the film. At first, the hugely comedic aspect of Run Lola Run kind of threw me off and made it seem kind of like a cheesy adventure movie going for visceral stimulation. And that's really boring and basic. It's really cool to think about the rebel element in 90s Germany and the construction in the film of the heroine being a pretty typically "unlikeable" character fighting against patriarchal, capitalistic society. Which is why, I guess, that a lot of intellectual-types and critics really enjoyed and passed it on. I mean Germany used to be this really rad place back in the early 90s, once the wall fell down all the creative types and artists and vagrants kind of took over Eastern Berlin and made it probably one of the most creatively dense places in the world. Maybe Run Lola Run was kind of looking at that culture with forlorn eyes, or something. I mean philosophically, in the movie, it speaks to determinism and fate. How it's portrayed that Lola sort of drives her fate in the three sections of the movie, but also how after she gets the money and everything seems to be going well in the second section she gets trumped by random circumstance. Which brings up questions like is there any reason in the world, how autonomous are we, where is the locus of control for us? My favorite bits of the movie that really spoke to me were the two scenes that Lola and Ronnie were in bed with the red filter. They were beautiful. And the red filter took out the harshness of Lola's hair and made them both look more natural. Also, in those scenes, there wasn't the intense cartoon-ish/comedic aspect of all the characters and the over-acting and such. And I think that's supposed to strike a nerve in people, because Tykwer's making the point; "do this! this is the type of love we need in the world! not hallmark engagement rings marrying the investment banker moving to martha's vineyard and two-and-a-half kids bullshit!"