TwoChopstix: Postmodernism in films

Run Lora Run

Run Lora Run is a German movie was produced in 1998. Lora, the leading character in the movie, has to collect 100 thousand Mark in 20 minutes to save her boy friend. Otherwise he is going to be killed by his boss, a drug dealer. The context of the story described in the three ways is not too difficult to understand. Different way has a different consequence. The director used postmodernism expressive method in the movie presents different perspective, the first run, she is killed by a police officer after her boy friend and she robed a supermarket; the second run, after Lora robed her father’s bank with a gun, she arrived the place on time that her boy friend and she suppose to meet but unfortunately while she meets her boyfriend, he is killed by a accident. So Lora stars her third run, this time she does not try to get any money from her father and keep running. She goes to casino, buys a 100 single mark chip and bets number 20 on a roulette table. By dramatically consecutive wins she earns 129 thousand Mark that is enough to rescue her boy’s life while her boy find the beggar who took his money in the beginning of the story, and gets his money back. Lora’s hysterically screaming, vivid color and fast-paced narrative method, as postmodernism elements arranged by director‘s purpose made this movie as a classic postmodernism works.