Run Lola Run Essay

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The distinctively visual text aims to show us the way we discover and understand images we see. Distinctively visual techniques are shown in both ‘run Lola run’ composed by Tom Tykwer and the movie ‘Happy death day’ directed by Christopher Landon and written by Scott Lobdell. Both of these compose use important techniques such as colours and lighting. These techniques help with highlighting the importance of both texts such as love, hope and most importantly time.

Throughout the text of ‘run Lola run’ Tykwer shows us clearly that Lola has only 20 minutes to complete her mission. Tykwer portrays that Lola runs three different scenarios, each of which has a slight change, causing the final run to have a significant change of impact towards the final outcome. This shows the audience the decisions that have been taken. throughout
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Throughout the film, time is a major impact Lola is thrown into a situation where she needs to find 100,000 marks within 20 minutes. Lola tries and fails, yet she refuses her fate. she restarts her run from the beginning, just like a video game.

Tykwer expresses time it emphasizes every minute of the text and every life decision or change that will affects the final outcome. Time is not only shown in the film ‘run lol run’, time is also shown in the movie ‘happy death day’.
Throughout this movie “Happy death day” the composer Chris shows us continually how a young girl, Theresa who wakes up on her birthday 18th of September to the alarm on her phone “it’s my birthday” in the dorm room of a named Carta. Throughout this movie, Theresa is stuck in a time loop and is constantly killed, repeating her birthday, able to move forward to the following day Theresa must find her killer and kill her. the camera focuses on the clock, with the tick-tock noise continuing as the camera leads into the dorm room of a young

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