Lola Rent: What I see (second blog assignment)

Lola Rennt, a Tom Tykwer’s movie, from Germany, called my attention since one friend suggested me watching it. I have already heard about this German director before and his particular way he works in his shorts and feature-length. Lola Rennt has a super dynamic plot used in almost all its scene. It uses several shots with split screen, flash forward, freeze frames, animation, much dolly camera movement because of Lola's running, and framing and composition changing all the time. Personally, I felt Lola Rennt movie makes viewers feel certain thrill and acceleration in the blood as they follow the movie sequence. Animation in the movie makes it a more kind of ludical game, a more attractive plot, bustling and inevitably elusive. There are also very striking colors in the production of the character of Lola, her clothes and her hair. The stressful background music plays also a great complement of the exciting plot, put while Lola runs and in the uncontrollable Manni's anguish by waiting for Lola's arrival.
Most of the use of framing in the movie is in full shot and long shot, only in the scenes of facial expressions like when Manni, Lola’s boyfriend, is waiting for her into the phone booth, camera is set in extreme close up to highlight the sweat of Manni’s forehead. About the composition, most shots are establishing angle because the camera movement goes always close to Lola while she is running, using dolly movement. Of course, throughout the move one can see low and high angles as well as over head angles in some shots taking more field in the place where Lola were running. Camera movements are used in the diverse forms all the time. Using all these techniques, Tom Tykwer accomplishes that viewers get involved and attracted to the movie spot. As I describe at the beginning, the several shots with split screen, flash forward, freeze frames, animation, dolly camera movement in Lola's running makes Tom Tykwer created a very attractive plot. A very good combination of all them.
The scene when a Dinah Washington’s song “What a Difference a Day Made” was my favorite, when after that all the previous scenes were accelerated, Tom uses slow motion for Lola and Manni’s scape taking the money robbed from a supermarket, polices surround them, Lola and Manny run to another direction and they see themselves complete surrounded, Manny throws up the bag of money, one police accidently shoot on Lola’s chest and she falls down on the ground. That slow motion started as a happy escape and ended up in a tragedy; it starts as a rest after all the stressful race but ended up sadly. Totally unexpected, then starts a flash back Lola and Manny talking in a bed about love, then she recovers and returned to the first scene of the movie to start another new run to resolve Manni’s problem.
To finish, I just can recommend this movie, I loved it and I hope to learn to mix all those techniques in one feature-length.