I prefer to
call a movie intelligent, if it keeps us glued till its end, as well as if it
keeps us thinking after. With a running time of just over 75 minutes, Run Lola
Run accomplishes exactly that! I will not go into the plot here, rather try to
point out what I interpreted from the movie.
You meet
people in your life, whose life you have no influence on. You rarely matter in
their life, and what happens to them is not at all related to your interaction
with them. This is portrayed by at least 2 characters Lola meets in the movie,
the lady with the baby, and the cyclist. In each of the 3 run’s, the story of the lady (shown as snapshots), and the story of the cyclist is different, and
bears no relation to her interaction with them. No matter what our interaction
with the person, their life is not influenced by us!
You meet people
in your life, whom you certainly have a lot of influence on. The watchman in
the bank is set as a classic example. In the 1st run, he teases Lola
initially, and later on he is shown as a person with a good heart, when he says
everyone has a bad day. In the 3rd run, after Lola’s stare, he
suffers a cardiac arrest, and while in the ambulance, when the doctors try to restore
his heartbeat, she gets in, and she could help it make normal. Lola’s father is
set as another example, as in each of the run, his interaction with her is
different, and is influenced by what she does to him.
Now, to the
two main themes covered, first one, the importance of chaos and random events
in daily life. One such example is what happens to Meier in the 3 runs. In the
1st run, because he turns and looks Lola, he is a bit slow, and his
car is being hit by another car. In the 2nd run, he does not look at
Lola, and the other car comes and hit his car. In the 3rd run, he
sees the running person is Lola, and he asks her if anything is wrong. Because
of that delay, no accident takes place at that point, however, later in the movie;
there is another accident which turns out to be fatal for Meier. Another
character who is shown affected by random event is the man who takes the bag
from the train. In the 1st 2 runs, he takes the bag and goes away.
In the 3rd run, he buys the cycle, but Manni meets him in his
bicycle, confronts him and takes the bag back. There are many more events in
the movie attributed to chaos, like Lola spotting the casino, Manni seeing the
homeless man on cycle etc etc.
Now, to what
I think was the main message behind the movie. The movie deals about how we can
control the chaos or randomness that happens in our life. It illustrates that
if we have enough motivating factors (here, it is love), we can, at least up to
an extent, control what is going to happen. There are scenes in the movie where
Lola asks Manni if he really loves her, and Manni asks what she will do if he
is dead. They both want to be with each other, and when they realize that, they
change their approaches, and decide to change what happens to them. The 3rd
run, which ends on a happy note, is after both of them are shown realizing that
they love each other, and after they decide to control what happens to them.
On a lighter note, you can even
think that the movie talks about relations, when Lola is ready to do anything
to save her boyfriend; her parents are involved in extramarital relations. Ideally,
it is a movie, left to the viewer’s interpretation like any other. Watch it and
see it for yourself.
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