Run Lola Run

Run Lola Run, 1998
Run Lola Run



I don't really know anything about this movie. It's not one like The Shawshank Redemption where I've heard a lot people talk about the movie, but I'm incredibly interested in watching this movie.

After having watched the movie:
(Possible spoilers below)

I really liked the way this movie was made and put together. I never expected the multiple ways the story could have ended, so it was an amazing surprise. I thought surly that after watching the first scenario when Lola was shot that the movie was over, but then I realized there had to be more to the movie. I loved the entire pacing of the movie as well, because it never felt like the pacing of the movie was dragging or too slow. I'll even admit that I felt rushed to watch the movie and write a couple of notes about it before going to bed last night, because I had to wake up really early today for work. I took a short film job, it's only two days, but I have to be up and at work super early and don't get home until late at night. So by taking the new film job I've introduced myself to bump number three that I've come to face in the 365 Movie Challenge.

I have never really been detoured by subtitles in foreign movies, but I sometimes feel like a lot of the subtitles aren't on the screen long enough to read. I think so much of the dialogue in this movie was fairly simple, and the movie regardless of the subtitles the story was fairly easy to follow on its own. Which I can't say the same thing about Hero, the amount of time that the subtitles were on the screen was really the biggest problem I had with that movie.

A couple of other things that kind of took me by surprise as far as the story goes though was that I had expected Manni to be shot by the bum once he took the plastic bag filled with money once he turned his back on him. There is absolutely no way I would have given the man the gun without first removing all of the bullets. And on top of that, what an honest bum to begin with. He didn't even fight with Manni about who rightfully owned the bag of cash, and just willingly turned it over without much of a fight. And I'm sorry, but Lola's father is just a big jerk for telling her that he was going to leave her and her mother for another woman who is having his baby. I did absolutely love the way the movie ended though. I thought it was brilliant that Lola would be able to win enough money to cover Manni's debt in a casino. The casino which seemed like it was just a block away from where Manni and Lola were supposed to meet in twenty minutes, yet in both other scenarios Lola and Manni decide it best to rob a grocery store and large bank.

Final thoughts: After watching the movie, I'm not entirely sure what kind of characters Lola and Manni are. I mean, they're first two ways they plan on getting the money are to rob a bank and grocery store at gun point. In the end though, I think both of them are "good guys" who sometimes get involved with crime and very scary guys who will kill you if you don't deliver all of the money owed to them on time. Either way, I loved the movie and had a great time watching it. At this point, I can't wait to watch the Simpsons episode from season twelve now.

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