Run Lola Run 2

In the third and final reality, Lola moves a tiny bit faster. She bumps into a car long enough to prevent an accident that happens in the other realities. However, when Lola gets to the bank, her father has already left. She ends up at a casino and wins enough money to help Manni, but has to get to him in time. She catches a ride in the ambulance, where she is able to help stabilize the condition of a man from her father’s bank, who has suffered a heart attack. Manni, meanwhile, is able to retrieve his money from the bum he ran into on the bus. He gets himself out of trouble and winds up 100,000 DM richer with Lola.

Coincidences appear to drive the plot of Lola rennt, raising questions about the unpredictability of life and the ways in which the smallest act impacts our lives and the lives of the people around us. For his use of the themes of time and parallel lives, Twyker owes an obvious debt to the polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski and his films, like Blind Chance (1987) and The Double Life of Véronique (1991). Twyker and Kieślowski actually had a strong friendship and working relationship, Twyker even finished the film that Kieślowski was working on when he died in 1996. Twyker himself has expressed an interest in Time and recognizes it as a recurrent theme in his films, especially the way it can be manipulated.

If Lola rennt has a Hollywood “feel,” it also owes a lot to American cultural influences. Twyker was influenced by Western movies and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). The 20 minute deadline borrows from the “before sundown” racing action feel of the old American Western movies and many of the visuals borrowed from Hitchcock’s film. The painting on the back wall of the casino, by production designer Alexander Manasse is of Kim Novak as she appeared in Vertigo. The robbery scene is also referred to as a tribute to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994).

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