Run Lola Run: In space and time

Run Lola Run

The course of a store, a tale or a life is decided by one simple equation: space + time, This simple parameters could change life as we now it if we have just moved one of them and in Run Lola Run it’s not the exception. Timing (space+time) is the thing that changes everything.

The directions or paths that you take in “space” will define what events will take place. The way in which we take the paths also define the events. For example if Lola have chosen to go by taxi to meet with Manni, she will never have the encounter with the woman with the baby or the ambulance. The reasoning to go to some places define the course of events. When Loal decides to go with her father to get the money it0s a clear example, what would have happened if she has went with her grandma? Another thing that’s important to know are the places where we move, it helps to take decisions. If Lola wouldn’t know the city she would never arrive where Manni was.

Time is the other part on the equation to decide the course of a story. The speed how we move define how fast we arrive or the time it takes to get a place. It would be very different the ride if Lola was walking instead of running, for example to get the ambulance. Also the obstacles that we find during a ride define the time on it. The car that hits Lola it’s a good example of how it affects. A very important issue with time is that we always are ruled by it. Lola is always looking to the hour to define her actions, for example when she stops to ask the old lady the hour.

At the end, the relation between space and time is the key to every action in hour life. It will define who will meet. For example: Lola crashing with the guy who stole the bag full of money. It also defines where we will meet some people. Lola finding Manni inside the store or outside the store. And they also decide what will the people we met will be doing. Lola running into his father and his lover, or his father outside the bank getting in the car.

You can call it destiny or timing but I think theta time and space define every little thing we do in our life. Sometimes for good and sometimes for bad, but every action would led us to a time and space.