Run Lola Run Essay

Time and Love are the main issues explored in the film Run Lola Run directed by Tom Tywker where distinctive and effective visual techniques are used to portray a variety of perspectives on human experience and the way chance is involved in it. Similarly your Paris by Ted Hughes also explores these themes of Time and love through two different perspectives, one where hughes sees a post war Paris still scarred from war and his wife sees it as the 1920’s city of romance.

One of the main themes in the film is Love. This theme is developed through distinctive camera shots, angles, lighting techniques and flashbacks. Lola and Manni who are the main characters who are also in a sexural relationship. Their story begins with Manni and Lola on the phone speaking about how if Manni doesn't get another one hundred thousand mark he will be killed gangsters. Lola screams in anger after she finds out about the situation. The perspective of the camera panning around Lola’s room and showing a picture of Lola and Manni together tell the audience that Lola and Manni are in a relationship. Tywker is emphasising that love can make you do crazy things. The tripartite structure, each run going for twenty minutes emphasises different outcomes that result from chance and the effect that this has on different individuals. Just like Run Lola run the poem your paris is about two lovers. The poem is also the perspective of two lovers and by the dominant use of pronouns such as your, I, my, in “wake or find the exit or/The minotaur…” “happy to protect you/From your agitation and your stone hours” Hughes creates the idea that they both could not escape their own contexts of paris. They experiences ranges from the world war through to his own past represented in the minotaur to her own, the stones as well as parts and events for their marriage and her depression.

The actions Lola take in desperation to try and save Manni since she loves him. She even robs a bank and threatens her father because of her love for Manni. When Lola is running the director uses a long shot to show her determination to save manni by getting the money needed. Lola’s love for manni is shown with close ups of Lola’s face while she's running showing her panic and desperation in her face. After the first run when Lola is shot and killed responders are shown a flashback of Lola and Manni in bed having a intimate conversation depicted with a close up of the two in each other's arms symbolising how they fill each other’s lives. These scenes are filmed with a red filter a symbol for how passionate their love for eachother is but also conveys the danger it will bring them. Danger is also hinted at in the relationship between Plath and Hughes in the poem Your Paris. Hughes uses the zoomporphic image of himself as the ‘loyal dog’ by Plath’s side during her darker