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Run Lola Run (1998)

Film
DirectorTom Tykwer
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Locations
  • The setting of post-unification Berlin
Form & technique
  • The three narrative loops/runs → The Postmodern Collage
  • The film's tripartite structure of "three lives"
  • The non-linear narrative and moments of temporal disruption (e.g., flash-forwards)
  • Lola's physical actions and appearance (running, screaming, androgynous style) → The Performed Self
  • The film's accelerated editing, split-screens, and frantic pace
Tropes
  • The minor variations in each run that lead to drastically different outcomes
  • The flash-forward sequences showing the future lives of peripheral characters in a series of still photographs

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