The Butterfly Effect In Run Lola Run '

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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.
As stated previously, the butterfly effect (and time travel more broadly) is used to great effect in this film. The butterfly effect, in popular culture, is a phenomenon of chaos theory in which minor changes can have large and unforeseen outcomes. In conventional time travel stories, this means that even the slightest change can have dramatic consequences. This concept is used to great effect in Run Lola Run¸ with the film having an unconventional take on this idea. In a traditional time, travel story, once the incident has occurred, a logical series of steps can be taken in order to go through the course of events and change the patterns. In Run Lola Run¸ however, shows an illogical side, that Lola is not in charge of or even fully aware of all the events and their consequences, and thus shows several different states of being of which the audience is never sure of the original. Further …show more content…

One of these cameras is at a high resolution (35mm) and the other is a low resolution. The Higher resolution camera is use for Lola and Manni’s scenes whereas the low-resolution camera is used in scenes which don’t involve the couple. Manni and Lola’s scene’s have visibly better definition which contrasts with, for example, her dad and his mistress’s scene, in which the definition is low and grainy. It can be said that the purpose of this was to give Manni and Lola’s scenes more realism, with the other scenes having less permanence for the audience, giving a sense of an artificial world, in contrast with Lola and Manni’s scene which is real and happening to

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