Run Lola Run And 400 Blows
Submitted by wasabi on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Run Lola Run And 400 Blows
Francois Truffaut's ``The 400 Blows'' is one of the first films that make known the coming of the French New Wave. The movie is inspired by Truffaut?s own life story. 400 Blows is a touching story of a young boy growing up in Paris and evidently running towarsds a life of crime. The people around him consider him a troublemaker. The film's famous final shot, a zoom of a still frame showing him looking at the camera. He has just escaped from a juvenile home, and is on the beach. This is the first time he has seen the ocean. 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. The movie is more about movement. 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. Surprisingly we see three endings of the movie. Each with different outcomes depending on the decisions made by the main characters.
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. The story is basically picturing an adolescent growing up with a bad surrounding. The main character makes bad decisions through out the movie and he pays the price for all of his actions. Doinel stole the typewriter and got caught, he defaced the classroom wall and got punished by the fascist teacher, and he was punished too after telling a really weak lie to his teacher. In my opinion, he is more unlucky than mischievous. He was caught while the pin-up calendar was on his table, and get caught while taking the stolen typewriter back and not while he took it the first time. In Run Lola Run, the approach to the storytelling is a whole different thing. The plot has a lot to do with repetition and over coming obstacles that seem impossible. Running and time seem to be the two major themes seen in...
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