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Run Lola Run is great. Just finished Stardom. Interestingly done. It begins like your average movie. The characters are filmed, seemingly unaware of the camera. 5 minutes later, you are zoomed into what essentially is the lens of a video camera. From there forth, the film consists entirely of television-like filmed material. Interviews, documentary segments, talkshows, advertisements, etc. 5 minutes from the end, you are zoomed out of the lens, and the finale is delivered like the introduction. It's only then you truly realize what the zooming in of the lens meant. The material within the middle all relates to the life of this one woman. It's interesting how, through these superficial bite-sized television segments, just how much characterization can occur. You get a sense of herself, her life, her family, her friends... it's really well done. Much like The Whalestoe Letters (the novel, if you've read it) which consists entirely of letters written by a single women; begging the question... are the characters portrayed real? Are they as written? Or are we only seeing a biased image? In this sense the film was excellent. The concept and delivery. Content-wise, it was alright. Nothing overly special, but it was a nice Canadian flick.
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