In this essay, i will be focusing on the middle section of Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt, 1998) starting at the bank where Lola takes her father hostage, demanding 100,000 Marks from the cashier, to the post death scene of Manni (45 minutes to 53 minutes). I am going to be focusing on mise-en-scene how colour is used to portray different meanings in this segment of the film, and how it impacts the narrative, and the meaning behind this. “Lola rennt engages twenty first century audiences through a plethora of post-modern themes such as chance, circumstance and time.” (McAllister, G, 2007) Twkyer uses these aspects in the mise-en-scene as symbolism that I will explore in this essay.
Firstly, I will talk about the significance of colours …show more content…
The cashier slowly empties the bin, taking out a yellow piece of paper and then slowly places the money in the bag then ties the end as Lola snatches it out of his hand and says “Bye, Dad”. The green bag represents what I said previously, green connotes that the character believes the action they are doing is correct, in this case, Lola believes that stealing the money for Manni is the correct thing to do. The yellow piece of paper that the cashier took out, is the stress and anxiety that Lola held for getting the money being taken away. This shows the audience that now the only problem is to get out of the bank and get to Manni, giving us a sense of closure from before, when there was a lot of confusion. The silence is lifted when Lola grabs the bag and the non-diegetic music …show more content…
“With each repetition of Lola’s itinerary we become more familiar with elements of her environment, as with the levels of a computer game”. This is a binary opposite to Lola’s death scene in the first attempt. Manni questions Lola what she would do if he died. These death scenes represent the process of what goes on in our minds when watching this film, the ‘what if’ situations. In the first scene earlier on in the film, Lola questions Manni what if they have never met, and this scene is similar but the opposite. Similar in the sense of conversation but opposite in terms of character, such as in the first scene, Manni has his arm around Lola but in this scene it 's Lola with her arm around Manni. These scenes make us question ‘what if’ that small action in our life didn 't happen, and how a small action can change the future. The confusion that we feel with these scenes is shown in the frame by the spirals on the pillows, connoting
Firstly, I will talk about the significance of colours …show more content…
The cashier slowly empties the bin, taking out a yellow piece of paper and then slowly places the money in the bag then ties the end as Lola snatches it out of his hand and says “Bye, Dad”. The green bag represents what I said previously, green connotes that the character believes the action they are doing is correct, in this case, Lola believes that stealing the money for Manni is the correct thing to do. The yellow piece of paper that the cashier took out, is the stress and anxiety that Lola held for getting the money being taken away. This shows the audience that now the only problem is to get out of the bank and get to Manni, giving us a sense of closure from before, when there was a lot of confusion. The silence is lifted when Lola grabs the bag and the non-diegetic music …show more content…
“With each repetition of Lola’s itinerary we become more familiar with elements of her environment, as with the levels of a computer game”. This is a binary opposite to Lola’s death scene in the first attempt. Manni questions Lola what she would do if he died. These death scenes represent the process of what goes on in our minds when watching this film, the ‘what if’ situations. In the first scene earlier on in the film, Lola questions Manni what if they have never met, and this scene is similar but the opposite. Similar in the sense of conversation but opposite in terms of character, such as in the first scene, Manni has his arm around Lola but in this scene it 's Lola with her arm around Manni. These scenes make us question ‘what if’ that small action in our life didn 't happen, and how a small action can change the future. The confusion that we feel with these scenes is shown in the frame by the spirals on the pillows, connoting