The film Run Lola Run plays with time to demonstrate the role of chance in people's destiny and the importance of the cause-effect relationship. The film's plot centers on Lola, as she tries to raise 100,000 marks to save her boyfriend from being killed. The film is divided into three sections, each begins in the same way, but due to chance and cause-effect relationships these situations develop differently and have very different outcomes. To show these different outcomes we are shown flash forward sequences, showing us how the lives of the people Lola comes across have developed and changed since their meeting. In each of the three sections their lives are affected in different ways. Run Lola Run critically observes the aspects of randomness, time and cause-effect relationship because the entire film is an expression of chance encounters, the relationship between events and their consequences, all played out in a seemingly infinite cyclical time frame. The relationship between effects is intrinsically important to the film because it is what makes Mani i...
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