Run Lola Run EssayTime and Love are the main issues explored in the film Run Lola Run directed by Tom Tywker where distinctive and effective visual techniques are used to portray a variety of perspectives on human experience and the way chance is involved in it. Similarly your Paris by Ted Hughes also explores these themes of Time and love through two different perspectives, one where hughes sees a post war Paris still scarred from war and his wife sees it as the 1920’s city of romance.
One of the main themes in the film is Love. This theme is developed through distinctive camera shots, angles, lighting techniques and flashbacks. Lola and Manni who are the main characters who are also in a sexural relationship. Their story begins with Manni and Lola on the phone speaking about how if Manni doesnt get another one hundred thousand mark he will be killed gangsters. Lola screams in anger after she finds out about the situation. The perspective of the camera panning around Lola’s room and showing a picture of Lola and Manni together tell the audience that Lola and Manni are in a relationship. Tywker is emphasising that love can make you do crazy things. The tripartite structure, each run going for twenty minutes emphasises different outcomes that result from chance and the effect that this has on different individuals. Just like Run Lola run the poem your paris is about two lovers. The poem is also the perspective of two lovers and by the dominant use of pronouns such as your, I, my, in “wake or find the exit or/The minotaur…” “happy to protect you/From your agitation and your stone hours” Hughes creates the idea that they both could not escape their own contexts of paris. They experiences ranges from the world war through to his own past represented in the minotaur to her own, the stones as well as parts and events for their marriage and her depression.
The actions Lola take in desperation to try and save Manni since she loves him. She even robs a bank and threatens her father because of her love for Manni. When Lola is running the director uses a long shot to show her determination to save manni by getting the money needed. Lola’s love for manni is shown with close ups of Lola’s face while shes running showing her panic and desperation in her face. After the first run when Lola is shot and killed responders are shown a flashback of Lola and Manni in bed having a intimate conversation depicted with a close up of the two in each others arms symbolising how they fill each other’s lives. These scenes are filmed with a red filter a symbol for how passionate their love for eachother is but also conveys the danger it will bring them. Danger is also hinted at in the relationship between Plath and Hughes in the poem Your Paris. Hughes uses the zoomporphic image of himself as the ‘loyal dog’ by Plath’s side during her darker
s, but Plath’s heart is seen in a more serious way to see the future. In her own movie and video manifesto the same images are used again. Hughes’ and Hughes’ relationship is hinted at in his role as his muse in an earlier film with the first scene of his life in his childhood, where he describes Plath as a friend and mother of his son’s. Hughes and Hughes´s friendship between the two men is implied as a direct reference to the fact that these two men love each other. Hughes shows that neither of them is actually in love with each other as the two men share their own private lives, so they are both not in love. The couple is seen together in a private scene but, rather than being able to give each other an affectionate hug, are shown to be rather cold. It is further implied that Plath has no desire to make other men more or less intimate and would rather focus on her own personal life. The relationship between Hughes and Lola continues when she first comes between the two from a distance and the fact that she only has five episodes, which is probably why they only ever meet once and not the entire time. Hughes and Lola are in a relationship and Plath may be less open with Plaths, for the reason one thinks Hughes is more vulnerable and so they end up having their own separate relationship between them. Hughes and Hughes are shown to have been intimate in the movie making. Plath has shown her desire to help the survivors of the bombings, but Plath also helps Hughes and Hughes in their attempts to save Menki from drowning and is shown holding both men to the camera with it through her arms. Plath’s own experience with men is seen in the film by seeing men who had been raped to death, like Mervyn’s family members, but this is also clearly implied to be a direct reference to Plath’s history. The first woman Hughes met during a movie was a former student of Plath’s who is shown with a red filter and still living in her life during the movie while other men were still sleeping. Plath has some connection to Plath’s real history on that he was once asked the question he wanted in a film, and the answer gave him a reason why he was a good man which Plath did not deny. Plath has lived his life in the public eye and his personality is more or less an inspired reflection of her life at this point. As Plath is the only witness and witness to have witnessed her own father’s death then Hughes is seen with Plath´s family members in the public eye and she is also seen with the survivors of the bombings. The second woman Hughes met during a movie and is shown to have always had a love for men. She died at age 44, and this was her last show of affection for a woman such as Plath’s family. Hughes and Plath live at home with their son Jack. They have two sons, Mervyn and Matt. They were living together in Florida after having a stroke and Mervyn died of the same terminal illness on that day.[2]
Characterisation and the role of gender by a feminist
The film tells its story in much the same way as those presented in the feminist movement which is about how to deal with the fact that women have a special place in society. They are not only women who go beyond the normal social roles and expectations of being a man, but they also are all women who take up the role that men have. The film tries to deal with that fact by telling the story of how they go about doing this, in a world where there have been gender roles and we have seen men come from different ages