Run Lola Run is a 1998 German film directed and written by Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente and Moritz Bleibtreu. Run Lola Run is about a young woman (Potente) in Germany who has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who lost that same amount of money that he was transporting for a mob boss. If Lola doesn’t get to Manni in twenty minutes, he is going to rob a supermarket in one last desperate attempt to save his own life. The film is actually three different stories with basically the same elements, with only a second or so difference between them. The few seconds make all the difference, as each of the stories have vastly dissimilar endings.
I thought that the concept for Run Lola Run was great. It reminded me of a video game that you can keep restarting until the objective is achieved. It also illustrated how every choice and action you make will affect the rest of your life.
My favorite parts were just the scenes of Lola running, and seeing how each time was a little different.
I enjoyed Run Lola Run. It was different, it was well put together, and I really liked the music. It was a story that I hadn’t seen in a movie before. Certainly, there are “race against the clock” types of movies, but this movie addressed the fact that actually beating the clock was a long shot. Only one of the three stories had a happy ending, and that’s the ending the movie left you with.
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