Run Lola Run Distinctively Visual Analysis

Distinctively visual techniques affect the way in which we perceive meaning and emphasise significant aspects of life through heightening our sensory appreciation of texts. The use of distinctively visual texts emphasises the ways that individuals respond to significant aspects of life such as love, time and hope through various tools and techniques. In Tom Tykwer’s motion picture Run Lola Run, the aspect of love and how we will do anything for it is emphasised through techniques such as split screen and symbolism. Tykwer also demonstrates the significant aspect of time and how it is a consuming and influential force that rules us all, through techniques such as camera angles and recurring motifs. Furthermore, In his picture book The Red …show more content…
Right from the beginning, Twyker places recurring motifs such as spirals and clocks to emphasize time's overarching authority and how we are bound to time. For example in the opening scene of the movie, the audience is exposed to a shot of a large dragon-shaped clock, the low angle that Twyker uses emphasizes the power and consumptive nature of time. We also learn that we are in a race against time and that it pushes us to do extraordinary feats. Twyker demonstrates this through his use of the split screen sequences where Lola and Manni are in the frame and a clock appears at the bottom, this emphasizes the presence of time everywhere and our race against time and how time is consumptive of us. It is through these distinctively visual techniques that Tom Twyker uses to convey time as consuming and influential to all of us, and that we are all in a race against …show more content…
The Red Tree depicts a young girl moving about her days almost consumed by depression and sadness. However Tan indicates that even when things seem overwhelming there is hope for a better day. In illustration ___ we see the salient image of a young girl trapped in a bottle by her oversized diving helmet. Her posture clearly indicates that she is unhappy and the bottle is slowly filling with water. There is no chance of escape as her oversized helmet clearly will not fit out the narrow neck of the bottle. Tan’s effective use of dark blue and grey further conveys the sombre mood and difficulty the young girl is facing. Through effective use of vector lines the viewer’s eyes are drawn along the horizon to contrasting white clouds, symbolising perhaps that there is hope on the horizon. Tan further emphasizes the sadness consuming the protagonist in illustration __. The salient image of a gigantic fish hangs over the young girl walking alone along a city street. The fish’ gaping mouth creates a vector line to the young girl who is hunched over and clearly unhappy, as she remains in the shadow of the fish while everyone else goes about their business ignoring her. Again, Tan’s