Analysis of Run Lola Run

The use of editing in Run Lola Run is very throughout the film because of the use of flash forwards and flashbacks to create a story and outline of the lives that Manni and Lola live together in Germany. The constant use of the editing to cut from scene to scene and then from scenario to scenario was very important in helping the audience understand what they both had gone through in their lives to get where they are now. They use editing to flashback to what happened when Manni lost the money that he was supposed to give to the gangster, and there are also flashbacks to intimate conversations that Manni and Lola have had about their relationship and how they feel about one another. That conversation in itself is one of the most important throughout the film because you really get a feel for how much Manni and Lola care about one another.

Even though what they are doing in the film

is wrong, I kind of felt a sort of sympathy for what them because of the raw emotion that you can see on both of their faces and that you can h

ear when they are talking to one another on the phone. They truly love each other and throughout the whole film I was crossing my fingers that Lola or Manni would come up with a plan to get the money back so that Manni

would not get killed in the end.

In the film the constant use of cutting back and forth from the phone scene when Manni is explaining what happened the urgency behind her getting the money to him before the 20 minutes is up is very suspenseful each and every time they flash back to this scene. Lola is trying so hard to figure out the right way to get the money to him that she runs through a number of scenarios until she finds the exact way that she should go about getting the money. While we are watching these scenes go back and forth we learn more and more about what exactly happened when Manni received and then lost the money. When we see the homeless man take the money after Manni leaves it on the subway, and then we see Lola run past him every the story plays through over and over again we as the audience just want to scream that he has but of course there is nothing that we can do. And when we see the way that the gangster has dealt with Manni in the past we have more sympathy for him as well. The constant cutting back and forth is so perfect for this type of movie and the editors did an amazing job with it. They made us as the audience so in tuned to the film and at the edge of our seats wondering what was going to happen next, and that is not just because of the movie and the story line itself, its because of the magnificent editing job that helps us get to know the characters at a whole new level because we are not just watching what is happening at the exact moment, but we have the privilege of seeing what has happened in their past to make the characters who they are and learn new things each time there is a flashback and a flash forward. This film was made amazingly well, and the editing contributed to that in a enormous way.