Realism and fantasy are two critical themes presented in the films Run, Lola, Run, directed by Tom Tykwer, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Michael Gondry. Run, Lola, Run is a German experimental thriller, released in 1999, that explores the themes of choice and how certain decisions can dramatically affect one’s life, specifically, through the main character, Lola. By comparison, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, released in 2004, is a sci-fi romance that follows Joel in both his unconscious and waking life. Choice also plays a major part in Joel’s journey, but the themes of regret and acceptance are more apparent. Symbolically, the themes presented in both films provide perspective on how these characters cope with their misfortune. The …show more content…
At one point in the montage, Joel returns to his childhood as a four-year-old hiding under the kitchen table. Clementine follows him, disguised as his babysitter, Mrs. Hamlyn (Gondry 1:00:56). Through the setting and context of his past, Joel uses the recollection as a way to protect the memories of him and Clementine being targeted by the scientists. Run, Lola, Run provides an alternate perspective on Lola’s success in achieving her goal. She successfully disrupts the cyclical process occurring in her own world by delaying her father’s business associate during his commute to his job. This causes the previously mentioned affair between Lola’s father and the woman to be put on hold, allowing Lola to avoid her father entirely. Therefore, she seeks other means of making the money to share with Manni. This is a favorable outcome for Lola because the affair never happens, thus Lola and her father stay on good terms, she is awarded her well-earned money, and, as mentioned earlier, continues a normal existence with her boyfriend. Finally, the historical development behind both films is particularly
Mac and Dennis are driving home. As they are driving they hear the radio from the car that a disease was spreading the city. And immediately had to get a flu shot they were so worried they had to park their car to call their parents, if they were okay. As soon, as they both call they have been reached to voice mail. They called one more time and Mac’s parent were vomiting. Dennie’s parents had really bad headaches.
In the book Always Running written by Luis J. Rodriguez we meet the author at a young age, We accompany him as he grows into the Veteran gang lifestyle. Throughout the autobiography, Luis, a young Chicano who survived ¨La Vida Loca¨ in South San Gabriel gives voice to an unheard cry and illuminates the cycle of poverty and violence of gang wars. His families instability and the discrimination they received due to their ethnicity gives him a desire to hurt others and seek understanding in a deviant way. Rodriguez speaks on many of the issues we still see in our Latino communities today, The lack of resources; financially and emotionally. He narrates his own internal and external battles to gain respect, belonging, and protection.
Are friends the best resources when in need? Yes, no? Well in these stories they are. Like in Harry Potter, he used his friends all the time like when he is wondering Voldemort is still really still alive who are the people that he comes to…his friends. Or in The Maze Runner Thomas when thomas is wondering about if he should go out in the maze and face the greevier’s. Who are the people that he goes to...his friends! In these two stories Harry Potter and The Maze Runner there are some similarities, but there are also some differences.
Run Lola Run, is a German film about a twenty-something woman (Lola) who has 20 minutes to find $100,000 or her love (Manni) will be killed. The search for the money is played through once with a fatal ending and one would think the movie was over but then it is shown again as if it had happened ten seconds later and changed everything. It is then played out one last time. After the first and second sequence, there is a red hued, narrative bridge. There are several purposes of those bridges that affect the movie as a whole. The film Run Lola Run can be analyzed by using the four elements of mise-en scene. Mise-en-scene refers to the aspects of film that overlap with the art of the theater. Mise-en-scene pertains to setting, lighting, costume, and acting style. For the purpose of this paper, I plan on comparing the setting, costume, lighting, and acting style in the first red hued, bridge to that of the robbery scene. Through this analysis, I plan to prove that the purpose of the narrative bridge in the film was not only to provide a segue from the first sequence to the second, but also to show a different side of personality within the main characters.
Run Lola Run is a film set in Berlin, Germany, where in the opening sequence we are introduced to a bird's-eye view of the entire setting; which is a view of Berlin's old city urban streets. The film was originally an art festival film, which allowed the auteur/director, Tom Tykwer, to experiment with several and generally risky and non-commercial camera angles and visual features to create the film's idiosyncratic emphasis on time, fate and human urgency. In doing so we are first shown a bird's-eye angle that merges into establishing shots that rapidly track to extreme close ups. Also in the first 5 mins of the film, we see the use of cross-cutting when Lola is having a conversation on the phone with Manni. This.This is interspersed with black and white flashbacks that are gradually sped up. Following up on this Tykwer employs jump cuts as Lola chooses to embark on her life or death 20 minute odyssey. Changing it up Tykwer follows this scene with a cartoon strip of Lola, which then cuts back to live action. The overall result of Tykwer, using many different visual techniques was to again create a sense of urgency, effectively placing the viewer along side Lola in her frantic twenty minute race against time through the the city streets of Berlin.
Run Lola Run (1998) as a film has several interesting and inter-related elements within its storytelling which come together to produce and interesting piece, such as the mise-en-scene of the movie, the butterfly effect and the interesting camera choices used.
The distinctively visual techniques employed by Tykwer in Run Lola Run, function to raise the importance of time, its inevitability, and intrinsic power over the events in our lives. The premise of the film is based upon the small amount of time Lola has to find 100, 000 marks. Often portrayed ticking slowly towards twelve noon, clocks are a recurring motif reminding the responder of Lola’s race against time. This continual visual reference to clocks is therefore augmented by their ticking sound, sometimes combined with the sound of a beating heart, strengthening the force of time. The opening sequence features a talisman symbolic of a grandfather’s clock to reinforce the significance of time. Tykwer uses a close-up low angle shot of the talisman to portray a submissive view of time, emphasising its importance and reminding the audience of Lola’s journey to overcome it. Animation techniques manipulate the face of the clock, morphing it into a creature that opens its mouth and appears to swallow Lola, indicating how time consumes us. Throughout the opening credits, an animated Lola portrayed running towards a clock highlights the importa...
"Every second of every day you are faced with a decision that can change your life. The difference between life or death can be decided in a split second" (IMDb). Run Lola Run is an excellent 80-minute German film written/directed by Tom Tykwer and edited by Mathilde Bonnefoy that has a four part "What if" style genre. The movie just throbs with kinetic energy mixed with a case of Monster Energy Drinks. It is so fast-paced that it is like a roller coaster that is unstable with each twist and turn. Run Lola Run will captivate your mind and spirit with beautiful and free form flashes of anticipation, panic, passion, desperation, hesitation, fear and fervor that when all combined is quite invigorating and will significantly exhausts its viewers. The formula editor Mathilde Bonnefoy uses to manage the complex rhythms in this film not only dazzles viewers with the pacing, but it also maintains an extensive focus on what Lola is doing and why she is doing it.
Run Lola Run is a film set in Berlin , Germany. This film gives you the idea of running with Lola on her journey to come up with one hundred marks in twenty minutes to save her boyfriend Manni’s life. Tom Tykwer uses many film techniques that usually are not used in movies , making this film not like every other Hollywood movie. Techniques such as the use of flashback and flash forward , this giving the film an idea that just by one slightest move or event can change your move in different ways. Other techniques that made this film interesting and attention grabbing is the use of animation, cross- cutting, birds eye view and medium shot.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Dir. Michel Gondry. Perf. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet. Focus Features, 2004. DVD.
Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, the story follows Lola, as she makes three different, twenty-minute, “runs” in an attempt to save Manni’s life. First, Lola tries to borrow the money from her father’s bank. This run ends, but the film reverts back to the opening scene as Lola refuses to die. In the second run, she robs a bank to retrieve the marks. But, Manni is in a fatal ambulance accident, and so the film returns to the start again. Finally, Lola obtains the money at a roulette table. Similarly to Oedipus, Run Lola Run, in its exploration of free will vs. determinism, supports the compatibilist view. This philosophy holds that free will can coexist with determinism, without being inconsistent or
Many aspects of a person's life affect their identity. Whether it is their self, their family or friends, or their community, it all affects a person’s identity. Luis Rodriguez’s memoir Always Running, tells of his life in East LA, growing up with gangs and drugs, and how he is affected by everyone that is around him. It’s all about his “Vida Loca” and how it affected him. There are three aspects of Luis's identity that most affected him throughout the book: his family, friends, and community.
Margaret Atwood once stated, “Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia,” which is a perfect description of when talking about The Maze Runner. James Dashner presents his idea of dystopia in a society which the reader sees instead as a utopia in many points of the book. Indeed, this is what keeps the readers thinking who side is everyone on. If utopia is what Dashner was trying to succeed in his book, The Maze Runner, then all the aspects of a true dystopian society start to show its true potential.
Occasionally, you will not see the significance of a moment until it becomes a memory. A memory that can change everything to you, from a certain place to an idea. A place can mean something to me, but it could mean something very different to others. We go to places every single day, from the grocery store down the street to the room in your school you hate to enter. We can go to a particular place a million times, but once the slightest thing changes, it can alter your perspective. All it takes is one visit for the place to have a whole new meaning. As a high school student in the Running Start Program, all my surroundings have changed and everything has taken a new meaning.
“...What?” Asami asked, believing that she must have misheard Korra. Asami blinked and kept her hands on the Avatar 's shoulders.