Run Lola Run-Oliver

Run Lola Run utilized masterful editing. My favorite features were the flash montages made up of pictures implying the variable possible futures of people tangentially affected by Lola and Manni. As Lola interacted with certain characters the screen would be filled with a quick series of photographs which implied their fate, and when she interacted with them again in nearly the exact same manner in one of the re-runs a different montage would be shown, illustrating the butterfly theory mechanisms of fate upon which the film is built. I appreciated the specific manner in which the montages were formed and limited. With only five unconnected pictures each shown to you for maybe a second or a fraction thereof the movie still manages to implicitly convey a great deal of information, and being that the shots immediately following each future montage are of Lola running down streets without much interaction allow the viewer time to digest the images and stories contained without rushing.