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In 1999, ‘Run Lola Run’ Saw the Future. Rereleased 25 Years Later, the Film Is More Exhilarating Than Ever
In 1999, "Run Lola Run" felt like a video game that was playing you. It still does, but what's thrilling about it now is its optimism.
Lola, played by the indelible Franka Potente, who’s like Lili Taylor with the flaming red hair of a new-wave knockoff of the god Hermes, has just 20 minutes to save her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). It’s the butterfly effect (the idea first expressed in Mark Twain’s dawn-of-the-20th-century novel “The Mysterious Stranger”), now heightened to an impeccably timed exactitude that speaks to the deterministic man-machine quality of our lives. So will the precise timing of when Lola runs in front of a car coming out of a garage, or when an ambulance approaches a bunch of people carrying a plate-glass window, or when Manni, giving up hope, takes a gun into a supermarket to hold the place up.
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