Sunday, October 15, 2006

Running, Causality, and Renarration

I recently saw Run, Lola, Run, and excellent film. The plot is very simple and presented in the first five minutes. Lola has 20 minutes to save her boyfriend from an urgent and serious situation. However, she doesn't do a very good job, and requires three attempts.

The film has a reoccuring theme that she gets different outcomes by using the same strategy, but having very different results due to very small differences in what happens. It also shows the people's lives that she interacts with through a short burst of polaroids, with very different results based on this very short interaction.

When watching Bambi, my film professor defined a term I haven't been able to find anywhere else: Denarration. In Bambi, all other characters exist solely to support Bambi's story. Their lives and purposes have no meaning and are lost immediately upon scene exit. This enforces a very self-centered view throughout the film. Again, I can't find that interpretation of the word anywhere on the internet. Maybe you can do a better job.

However, Run, Lola, Run is an example of the opposite. Every single character presented has their own story and purpose for doing something. Also, through this polariod effect, their entire life story is played out at rapid speed. I decided to coin this as renarration, being the opposite of denarration, but more detailed than just regular narration.

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