Lola rennt
Recently I feel a strong resurgence of my desire to watch movies. Most of the times this is prompted by watching a few good films in a row, and so I have been thinking about which ones they were this time. Result: There is a lot. Looper was certainly a masterpiece, I love you Phillip Morris was inspiring, Paper Moon and Snatch intrigued me so much that I was thinking about those films days later. This is especially surprising since I saw a bunch of okay films before that (except Shall we dansu? which I loved). Even so, I can’t believe I completely forgot about Run Lola Run.
If I had seen this film back when it came out, I might not have hated German movies so much. Certainly there are some aspects I would not have liked back then (God, why are German actors so bad sometimes?), but all German films I have seen at the time were slow and utterly boring. Only Goodbye Lenin (that was 2003!) was able to revert that impression. Afterwards, there were a few nice films (yeah Das Leben der Anderen!) which cemented the impression that maybe the German industry is able to produce something decent every once in awhile.
It turns out that even in the dark 90s, this “every once in awhile” manifested itself in Run Lola Run. I love love love the movie. It’s unpretentious and well-written, and I purposefully kept myself in the dark about what is going to happen exactly in the film to get the maximum suspense out of this film I had fairly high hopes for. Everyone who saw the film liked it! I think that is amazing.
Back in the day, when I read about Kieslowski’s Blind Chance for the first time, I was utterly in love with its premise and the idea that small events could change a human’s entire life. Run Lola Run is much less pretentious (and much more fun to watch), but sometimes I wish there was more of an explanation about those various people whose lives were changed so much just by Lola’s bumping into them. Then again, who cares? It makes for a good story and, in some cases, a grin on my face. That is enough.
Hohoho, I failed to comment this so far!
I have an unconditional, absolute love for this movie too! XD It’s quite ridiculous and overly-90s in some ways (Techno! The bad cartoon scenes! Dialogues like “Die Tasche!”), but it is just SO MUCH fun. Every time I’ve watched it, I’ve always been amazed at how fast time has gone by. I guess I can watch this film instead of coffee, a power-nap or… doing sports. :D
Unconditional and absolute! Hahaha. Yeah, the film is something special, I totally see it. I would totally want to revisit it again and be quite sure that I will enjoy it all over again.