Run Lola Run single frame

C.
Cinema Studies: Gender and Film
2 min readJan 31, 2017

First to breakdown the frame. The guy is wearing a uniform which is probaly easily identifiable for the german/european audience, Lola is out of focus and in the foreground while the security guard is the only part of the frame that is in focus the background is also blurred. He is placed on the left side of the screen which means our eyes will travel to him first and then to Lola since she takes up a large section of the frame and is in the foreground plus she has brightly colored hair unlike the security guard. All the attention is placed on the security guard’s face. The background and the dark colors of his clothes make his face stand out even more. I picked this frame because of its context in the film. Every scene or interaction with the security guard at the bank hints at that character knowing more than the other characters, even the line from the scene hints that he knows she came too late to get the money from her father, it could be mere coincidence that what he says always seems like he knows why Lola is there and that she is repeating the events until she gets them right. His character was narrating the opening scene and his character was in the ambulance towards the end of the movie. I don’t think this character is omnipresent because he displays genuine fear of Lola at times but he seems to know more than anyone even Lola. This scene also foreshadows the ambulance scene when he is going into heart failure but regains a normal heart rate when Lola holds his hand. Crazy fan theory: what if he is Lola’s real father and is a ghost or some sort of supernatural being?!?!?! Evidence for this theory: in the first “run” Lola is told by her the banker that her real father died before she was born, and all of their interactions. I’ll have to watch the movie several more times and see if I can find more evidence. Overall I enjoyed the movie it was outside my normal which was nice.

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