Lola rennt

         My first impression of Lola rennt was this is a very odd movie. Lola rennt is not like your typical American movie, so I thought it was weird at first. I don’t think the movie ever got normal but I did enjoy the film quite a bit. I loved the repeating of the scenes and the different outcomes. I think that it kept you interested and attentive. Every time the scenario would start over I would be paying very close attention to see what changed the second, or third, time around. An example would be Lola’s interaction with the animated dog and boy. The first time the dog growled at Lola but she continued on her way. The second time the boy tripped her and she fell, also slowing down her time to get the money for Mani. The last time, Lola thought faster and jumped over the dog and made it down the stairs unscathed. I think the statement the film makers were making is that everything you do has a chain effect. It showed that each time the interactions with people changed, so did the fate of that person. I thought this was especially apparent with Lola. Each time the ending would be drastically different depending on what she chose to do. The one interaction that really stuck out to me was how the life of the guy selling the bike changed after interacting with Lola. After the first encounter he ended up getting jumped, but it ended in his favor because he met his wife immediately after. The second showed him becoming a bum/drug addict and meeting, what should have been, his wife but nothing ever happening because of his appearance/life. The third he sold the bike to the bum who had found Mani’s drug money. I would recommend this film to a friend, solely because of how different it is. I would tell them it is a film worth seeing because it will keep you engaged. Also I would say that it is pretty humorous, even though I’m not sure the film makers were going for that.