Run Lola Run Essay

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Images enter one eye, and then go out the other! When was the last time you stopped to consider the distinctively visual elements, in a text you may have read? Have you ever considered how language affects our comprehension and shapes definition in any given text? If your answer is no, then the reason for that is quite simple.
The 21st century has seen a phenomenal increase in new technologies. As a result, individuals are becoming significantly reliant on visual images in order to obtain understanding in multimedia platforms, which include mobile applications and computers. Thus, more traditional formats, such as texts and poetry, visual communication is generated via language features, are being overlooked. The 1998 film, ‘Run Lola Run’, …show more content…

With ‘chance’ being one of the main ideas, the concept of the circulatory nature of life is present in the epilogue. TS Eliot states, ‘We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time’. Another citation by Herberger utters, ‘After the game is before the game’. By taking these two quotes into consideration, it can be inferred that the film possesses such ideas of the circularity of life. After these quotes, slightly pictures of people appear, with a periodical focus on characters in the film. A voiceover discusses the conundrum of mankind. It explains how we ask numerous questions and answers, however, the question and answer tend to remain the same, as a result of life being a game. Emotions of hastiness and swift movement are developed by utilising dynamic film techniques, including spinning shots, tracking shots, fast editing and a divided …show more content…

Initially, the reader’s mind is directed to the wonder of nature by starting with the anaphora, ‘such a…’ Stewart sustains this attention by directly engaging the reader by utilising the phrase, ‘You’d think’. He then gracefully touches the audience’s inner soul and imagination with the assistance of the metaphor in the phrase, ‘a wind of the dusk’. Consequently, this renders images of the tranquil air in the lowering light, but also that same wind strokes the

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