Good afternoon my fellow students and teachers, today I’ll be analysing and demonstrating to you how Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run and Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, use the distinctively visual to convey and enhance the audiences perception of their ideas. Well Let’s get into it.
In Tom Tykwer post-modernist film Run Lola Run, the main themes are the power of time and the amplifying effects of minor changes, both of these concepts are fundamental throughout the whole movie.
The opening sequence begins with a close up shot of a pendulum ticking, revealing to the audience that time will be the central theme of the film. We can then see a grandfather clock with a low angle shot, placing us, the audience in a position that indicates that …show more content…
What we commonly know as the butterfly effect or the chaos theory is represented in Run Lola Run by brief flash-forwards of certain characters in three separate narratives which convey the differing outcomes that exist due to one’s choices, time and location. Each time, a slight change in the path along Lola’s run causes a significant change in the final outcome. This is evident in the scene where Lola bumps into a mother on the street, where we are then bombarded with photos showing how she became devoted to the church and had great religious faith after this. In the next run however, Lola doesn’t bump into her and the quick flashes of photos implies that the mother ends up winning the lottery and becoming immensely rich. The flash forwards suggest that everyone is on their own journey and yet the outcome can change significantly due to a slight change in one’s life. Tykwer has clearly portrayed this using the distinctively visual as the quick montages of flashes and photos represent his …show more content…
Obviously since it’s a painting it has visual elements but Dali has incorporated certain visual techniques specifically to juxtapose the nature of the conscious mind to that of the unconscious state. The various melting and drooping clocks, being an oddity, draw the audience’s attention and signify the absence of time in a dream state as the distorted clocks all point at different times suggesting that time is not functioning as it does in the real world. Dali has painted the distorted clocks and the sleeping figure both on the foreground where it is dark, implying unconsciousness and drift from reality as the table and the figure are heavily contrasted from the pitch black ground also conveying that they do not exist in the dream world but only in the ‘real world’. But where exactly is the ‘real world’ here? Well the bright background with the landscape is where reality exists and its harshness is conveyed with the sharp, rocky cliffs. This adds a whole new meaning as the figure prefers to stay in the dream world where it does not belong rather than the harsh and bitter reality. Outside of the painting, the idea that Dali tries to convey is the unforgiving nature of reality because in the real world, time is a thing, and its inevitable nature forces people to witness horrific events and live through traumatic experiences. So the unconscious
In Tom Tykwer post-modernist film Run Lola Run, the main themes are the power of time and the amplifying effects of minor changes, both of these concepts are fundamental throughout the whole movie.
The opening sequence begins with a close up shot of a pendulum ticking, revealing to the audience that time will be the central theme of the film. We can then see a grandfather clock with a low angle shot, placing us, the audience in a position that indicates that …show more content…
What we commonly know as the butterfly effect or the chaos theory is represented in Run Lola Run by brief flash-forwards of certain characters in three separate narratives which convey the differing outcomes that exist due to one’s choices, time and location. Each time, a slight change in the path along Lola’s run causes a significant change in the final outcome. This is evident in the scene where Lola bumps into a mother on the street, where we are then bombarded with photos showing how she became devoted to the church and had great religious faith after this. In the next run however, Lola doesn’t bump into her and the quick flashes of photos implies that the mother ends up winning the lottery and becoming immensely rich. The flash forwards suggest that everyone is on their own journey and yet the outcome can change significantly due to a slight change in one’s life. Tykwer has clearly portrayed this using the distinctively visual as the quick montages of flashes and photos represent his …show more content…
Obviously since it’s a painting it has visual elements but Dali has incorporated certain visual techniques specifically to juxtapose the nature of the conscious mind to that of the unconscious state. The various melting and drooping clocks, being an oddity, draw the audience’s attention and signify the absence of time in a dream state as the distorted clocks all point at different times suggesting that time is not functioning as it does in the real world. Dali has painted the distorted clocks and the sleeping figure both on the foreground where it is dark, implying unconsciousness and drift from reality as the table and the figure are heavily contrasted from the pitch black ground also conveying that they do not exist in the dream world but only in the ‘real world’. But where exactly is the ‘real world’ here? Well the bright background with the landscape is where reality exists and its harshness is conveyed with the sharp, rocky cliffs. This adds a whole new meaning as the figure prefers to stay in the dream world where it does not belong rather than the harsh and bitter reality. Outside of the painting, the idea that Dali tries to convey is the unforgiving nature of reality because in the real world, time is a thing, and its inevitable nature forces people to witness horrific events and live through traumatic experiences. So the unconscious