Run Lola Run Essay

Images enter one eye, and then go out the other! When was the last time you stopped to consider the distinctively visual elements, in a text you may have read? Have you ever considered how language affects our comprehension and shapes definition in any given text? If your answer is no, then the reason for that is quite simple.

The 21st century has seen a phenomenal increase in new technologies. As a result, individuals are becoming significantly reliant on visual images in order to obtain understanding in multimedia platforms, which include mobile applications and computers. Thus, more traditional formats, such as texts and poetry, visual communication is generated via language features, are being overlooked. The 1998 film, ‘Run Lola Run’,

directed by Tom Tykwer, and the poem ‘The Moth’ by Douglas Stewart, are both examples of how images can be vividly produced with the incorporation of various techniques.
In the film, ‘Run Lola Run’, the protagonist Lola, faces remarkable restrictions in time as she tries to prevent her premeditated boyfriend from executing a crime.

With ‘chance’ being one of the main ideas, the concept of the circulatory nature of life is present in the epilogue. TS Eliot states, ‘We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time’. Another citation by Herberger utters, ‘After the game is before the game’. By taking these two quotes into consideration, it can be inferred that the film possesses such ideas of the circularity of life. After these quotes, slightly pictures of people appear, with a periodical focus on characters in the film. A voiceover discusses the conundrum of mankind. It explains how we ask numerous questions and answers, however, the question and answer tend to remain the same, as a result of life being a game. Emotions of hastiness and swift movement are developed by utilising dynamic film techniques, including spinning shots, tracking shots, fast editing and a divided

screen.
The hands rotating on the clock notifies the audience that it represents time elapsing. Rapid variation in camera shots accelerates the film. As Lola races through the square, an overhead shot is used in order to produce feelings of distance. The distance she must run is stretched through the use of tracking shots under the columns of the train bridge. The viewers can understand that two distinct events are occurring simultaneously, with the usage of the separated screen in the final minutes of each story. Thus, images can be interpreted in numerous ways, to assist the audience in acquiring an appropriate knowledge of the message.
In the poem, ‘The Moths’ by Douglas Stewart, the visualisations produced through the use of various techniques are just as accentuating as Tykwer’s dynamic camera shots.

Initially, the reader’s mind is directed to the wonder of nature by starting with the anaphora, ‘such a…’ Stewart sustains this attention by directly engaging the reader by utilising the phrase, ‘You’d think’. He then gracefully touches the audience’s inner soul and imagination with the assistance of the metaphor in the phrase, ‘a wind of the dusk’. Consequently, this renders images of the tranquil air in the lowering light, but also that same wind strokes the

trees.
The visualisations in the poem, are continuously brought up by of participles, such as, ‘gushing and spinning’. The technique unveils the energy the old moths. Moreover, he adds a characteristic of purity and innocence to the old-aged moths by referring to snow at the end of the poem.
‘Run Lola Run’, and ‘The Moths’ may be of two dissimilar forms, nevertheless, they both manipulate the interpretation of images in order to provide a distinctively visual experience for the audience. Tom Tykwer portrays messages about life, time and chance through the application of numerous visual film techniques. Whilst, Douglas Stewart strategically employs effective language techniques to visually present moths, a typical creature found in the home, as an alluring and elegant biotic force.