Run Lola Run

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Run Lola Run “Run Lola Run” a German film written by Tom Tykwer, demonstrates how this film would not be as effective if done somewhere besides a modern day city. The film starts off with Lola getting her bike stolen. She was supposed to pick up her boyfriend Manni. The bike being stolen starts the craziness, for this two characters. Therefore, Manni is forced to take the train, Manni has a bag of money with 100,000 marks in it. When leaving the train Manni for gets the bag on the train. The bum sitting next to him realizes that he left the bag on the train, and takes the bag. The problem is that the money is not Manni’s and he was supposed to deliver the money to a men in about 20 minutes. If the task is not completed Manni will be killed, Lola blinded by her love for Manie, says she will do anything to help him find money. She sets off to find her father in the hopes that he will give her the money. The film shows three possible outcomes of the story. The modern city is a one of a kind place, and the film would not have the same efficiency if done somewhere else. There are three versions of the plot that are embedded in the chaos of the story from start to finish. The outcome of each version is dependent on the seconds lost or gained by Lola's response to the first obstacles on her run, a nasty-looking youth and his growling dog situated at a staircase in the building where she lives. In the first version, barely aware of their presence, Lola spurts past them. In the second, the youth trips her, causing her to fall down the stairs; in the third, possible aware of the danger, Lola jumps over the dog. Regardless of the nature of Lola's response, each has a downward effect on all other events in its same vision. Time is everything, and in the city people don’t wait they are always moving and jumping from one place to the next. Just as Lalo does, as she is

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