Monday, February 18, 2008

Lola rennt/ Run Lola Run (Eng) (1998)

Directed by Tom Tykwer

Wow. Good one. Please read this interview> http://www.projecta.net/tykwer.htm I think it is pretty good and I highly recommend it. In this interview, the director talks about time in film.

"I believe that time itself can be ruled in films generally. You can just do everything you like. You can stretch time. Usually what film does is to tell a whole life in ninety minutes, or one week in ninety minutes. Events that take a much longer time you squeeze into ninety minutes.
So I thought it would be interesting, especially in Lola, to stretch time out and tell twenty minutes in one and a half hours and see what happens then. You stretch it out and suddenly you see all these little spaces in between, you can look into small channels in this stretched time period. Which allowed me to follow different lines of the story, to say "What's this person doing by the way?" or "What's happening to that one?". And then you just follow this life for a moment. [...] I really wanted to take this idea to the absolute max. Lola is also very much a film about the possibilities of time manipulations and speed changes in film generally. I think you can't tell a life faster than we did. That's even faster than any Hong Kong film (laughs)."

I think time can be manipulated in any kinds of art form that require editorial process. So, I wonder what can be a unique relationship between time and film. If you have thoughts, let me know. Thanks.

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