Run Lola Run: Reunified Germany

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The films created in reunified Germany often had a gritty feeling to them and their storyline, this being shown through the movie Lola Rennt, or Run Lola Run in English, by Tom Tykwer. Tykwer’s film included repeating movement shots, short bursts of animation, and quick cuts between scenes, leading the film to have the same panicked and rushed feeling the two main characters of the film were going through. What Run Lola Run, and to the greater extent Tom Tykwer, was trying to share about Reunified Germany was the panicked, rushed, and unpredictable changes the German people were facing. When watching Run Lola Run there is a captivating flow to the story as you watch Lola and Manni try to find solutions to the problem of losing 100,000 Deutschmarks …show more content…

The early reunification process held many fears in German people of both East and West. Although it was wanted, change in any case is often something people have a feeling of fear or unease over, so when reunification began many German people felt much like the movie with the example of Eastern German people trying to figure out their way through a more commercialized world. It is also noted by Sabine Hake in the book, German National Cinema, also brings into focus the massive changes to economics, laws, and the living conditions that many Germans were used to by saying; “In 1998, after 16 years of CDU rule, the new SPD/Greens coalition government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder initiated ambitious social and economic reforms intended to make the country more competitive on global markets and less inflexible on labour and employment issues.” Looking into how the changes that came with the reform also affected the working lives of Germans is showcased in Run Lola Run along the way, where Manni and Lola both are trying to quickly find the money that was

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