Run Lola Run

Run Lola run, The essay.

By: Federico Pardo López

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Maybe you can change your opinion, your way of doing something, but you will never have the opportunity to change your destiny. “Run Lola run” (Lola rennt) is a movie that talks about the choices you make in your life and the lives you can affect when you make those decisions. This movie remind me another movie named “The air I breathe” that talks about how your actions can modify the lives of other people and mainly yours.

Lola is the protagonist of this movie and her problem in the story is how to get money without dying or killing her boyfriend in the choices she has to make. She starts to think how to get that money. She starts running to the bank to meet his father and ask him for money. This is the first option she thought, and obviously the first thing she do in every moment, only the actions like accidentally pushing people while she’s running, of the conversation with the father, or how she run downstairs, are the things that can change her destiny.

I realized that she run in different ways. First she started running like crazy, without thinking, just letting her feelings think instead of her, and because of that she gets killed by the police officer. The second is when she startsrunning again, but this time a little scared, she doesn’t know what to do yet, but she only thinks that she doesn’t want to die, she have more attention in everything, and she only thinks the actions that can affect her, that’s why this time his boyfriend got kill by an ambulance. The third one and last, is when she realized that, she has to let destiny do what it wants, she is thinking like: “Ok, I will do what I just have to do.” and not like before: “I’ll make my own destiny, I can control the reactions.” And that’s why the ending happened that should happen since the beginning.

It is a movie that makes you think about your life, just like “The Butterfly Effect”, you have to know that life will do what it has to do; you can’t change things from future and neither the past. But you have the power to live in the present and do what you really want to do. That’s the objective of the Movie, you just have to live and let everything happen, and if you can change something, don’t do it, just try to make it better or fix it.

“Run Lola run” is a great movie because it has good characters, the scene design is a miniplot in a strange way, maybe you are not watching the other lives in a direct way, but when you see the photos that appears suddenly, you can see that Lola can change others life when she makes things to get the money. “Run Lola run” is a original and excellent movie, that when it finishes you think in your life and the lives you can affect, or maybe it just my case.