run lola run

John: Run Lola Run directed by Tom Tykwer, is an intense, fast paced action film with implications about fate, love, chance, time, choice, and consequence. Not a second in this movie is boring, as it is as high paced as the title implies, whilst being both physically and mentally straining. At the beginning of Run Lola Run, two quotes are shown; one about time and the other is a philosophical statement about what a game is. These two statements viewed together arises an idea and an important concept of the movie that life is like a game. Tykwer conveys this concept in the film through the themes of love, time and chance. Run Lola run is different to ordinary films, it is not something you would go see in the cinemas it is unique, unusual and incorporates animation creating the sense that life is a game. The water tower written by Gary Crew and illustrated by Steven Woolman is also not your typical children’s book; there is something unusual and unique about this text due to its page layout switching from portrait to landscape conveying disorientation within the text and also through its sense of mystery and the unknown while also having to draw to your own conclusion to the story creating engagement with the reader also leaving them wanting more. Both of these texts demonstrate distinctively visual techniques to portray distinctive experiences.

Henry: Tykwer explores the notion that love has an overwhelming ability to influence our choices. This experience exhibits how relationships shape meaning and is revealed through the distinctively visual use of the symbolic motif of the colour red. Red has many connotations and meanings to it such as; danger, warning, passion, and love. It is seen throughout the film as it is the colour of the phone in Lola’s house, the colour of the phone booth manni uses, the ambulance, the bag the money is in, the red wash screen during Lola and Manni’s death reflections and of course Lola’s bold red coloured hair that streams behind