I don’t exactly remember how I came across this movie but I think it happened when I was preparing the Research Project about Donnie Darko while searching for movie references in which the time travel topic would be present. I remember reading discussion forums about the movie where people talked about other films that could have similarities, and there were a lot of interesting films that I discovered thanks to that. The Butterfly Effect and Run Lola Run were the ones, in which the topic appeared, that I decided to include in the movie references section of the project, although both movies are different from Donnie Darko about the way in which the characters can freely travel across the time, getting different chances, while the protagonist of the other one can’t do that since he is being conducted by design.
Aside from the time travel topic and now speaking more concretely about Run Lola Run, there are a lot of factors that give this movie sufficient potential, not only as a cult film but as a movie that can satisfy any kind of audience. First of all, it is entertaining as hell, due to the amazing editing and diverse visual concepts that give the narration agility. The music (both score and soundtrack) fits perfectly in with the frames. Then the script, despite its simplicity, is very original, and the characters and dialogues are very interesting. Finally, the whole idea of what repercussions our actions may have depending on the right or wrong time and space, with all its philosophical and existential messages, turns out to be very effective. It’s nothing exceptionally new but, when told in the right way and with adequate treatment, it never gets old. As I said, I think that it’s a movie that most people can be fond of and there’s no doubt about its deserved cult title consideration. If you like cult movies, you cannot miss this one!
It was pretty clear from the beginning that I would choose the song Faith In Chaos for this video tribute. Both movie and song share the same countdown idea and even the same artwork concept: in the lyric video of the song, there’s a clock whose needles advance rapidly just like it happens with the ones in the clock that appears in the movie's opening.
In this case, I think that this is one of the most coherent video tributes I’ve made with a song of mine as the musical background. The music and lyrics match pretty well the spirit of the movie.
THESIS
The possibilities of applying a concrete thesis to this movie are multiple, as many as the choices the characters have to face along with the story. I like this idea that comes reinforced at the beginning of the movie by the initial quotation and subsequent voice-over monologue, in which the narrator tells us how a question leads to an answer that will lead to another question and so on, but they’re all the same thing in the end. I think that the thesis has clearly something to do with that. It has to do with fate and coincidence and it could even refer to parallel universes. The clearest thing is that one of the main points is how powerful our choices can be, affecting anything around us and changing everything in time or space. So, as a thesis for this movie, I’m just going to mention the famous butterfly effect quote extracted from the Chaos Theory.
It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.
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