Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
My Favorite All-Time Movie
The proof of a good movie is how long it remains in your thoughts. I've thought of Lola Run ever since seeing it for the first time, in 1998. It's my favorite movie in the world. I've watched it at least ten times. It convincingly proves that every action you take creates a ripple effect which affects the whole world. For the past ten years, every time something important happens to me I tell myself, That was a Lola moment. Lola runs past people on the street, and the director shows how her passing affects their lives differently (according to whether it's at 12:00, 12:01, or 12:02) by a quick-pace series of photographs of their lives, after this brief encounter. So owning this movie is a must because you'll want to keep replaying the quick series of photographs which show their possible futures, depending on the time of day she brushes past them. Simply amazing. Brilliant acting and incredible filming. Great music and cartoony special effects. People rave about the Butterfly Effect and Sliding Doors but these two don't come close.