Run Lola Run and 400 Blows
Francois Truffauts ``The 400 Blows is one of the first films that make known the coming of the French New Wave. ... 400 Blows is a touching story of a young boy growing up in Paris and evidently running towarsds a life of crime. ... On the other hand, Run Lola Run is a high energy, most subversive film about disaffected youths and their attempts to somehow change the course of their life. ... A whole lot of the film we see Lola running madly through the city of Berlin trying to get her boyfriend Manni out of trouble. ... The major difference I noticed between the two movies, The 400 Blows and Run Lola Run was the approach in storytelling that was used. 400 Blows uses more of a realistic approach to the plot. ... In Run Lola Run, the approach to the storytelling is a whole different thing. ... Even the obstacle presented for Lola seems impossible to do; how is she supposed to come up with 100,000 in just 20 minutes? ... s interesting to watch because we are rooting for the hero, Lola. ... In Run Lola Run, symbolism seems to play a big role in the movie, especially in terms of color. The color red seems to surround Lola everywhere: her hair, the telephone, the ambulance, the red plastic bag from the supermarket, and the red filter lighted scene between Manni and Lola in bed. ... In the first ending where Manni and Lola rob the supermarket, they ran away carrying a red plastic bag with the money in it.