Saw Run Lola Run again today. The first time I saw it, I thought that it was something that embraced postmodernism to the extreme. But the second time I saw it, which is today, I started wondering if part of its irony extends to the post-modernist theory. After all, take the opening dialogues for instance!
"Mankind, probably the most mysterious species on our planet. A mystery of open questions. Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? How do we know what we believe to know? Why do we believe anything at all? Innumerable questions looking for an answer, an answer which will raise the next question and the following answer will raise a following question and so on and so forth. But in the end, isn't it always the same question and always the same answer?"
Seems to crock a snook at the postmodernist world ;-)
Loved it! Again! Particularly the use of animation in between and the excellent use of the soundtrack and the speeding ups and the blurring and rewinds. Wonder if Quentin Tarantino borrowed a few ideas for Kill Bill?
And oh so love the opening sequence, the titles and the initial zoom up to the phone! Reminded me a bit of Guy Ritchie's technique.
Think that I take relativism in the postmodernistic sense a little too far - embracing the moment and its impulses all the time - without any plan, without any thought, without any control. Sheer indulgence? Or is it just moral relativism?
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buddy, you've seen Amelie too? I guessed it worked on similar lines, although the hot coffee there was on romance and love and the mushy mushy leaves of blue-eyed cherries :D
So how you been dude? How are things?
Yeah! Liked Amelie too. Not doing too good, death! Think that I've totall messed up sthng that had all the beginnings of a beautiful friendship by being stupid enough to fall in love :-/
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