Run Lolo Run

Hi guys, apologies for the lack of posts recently I've had a fir bit of work to catch up on.

As of a few weeks ago in my Critical Games Studies lecture we were studying games is varying forms of media such as printed, TV, web and films showing how games interfaces are sometimes used to bring across a point. And how some times in films the story can be based entirely around a game or mechanic, and other times games are just used briefly to help carry the story along. These include, The Lawnmower Man (au fell in my opinion, apart from Pierce Brosmen) where VR (virtual reality) is used to help a backwards gardener become more intelligent and eventually gain telekinetic powers (a bit Philip. K Dick ish as the main character is thrown out of his natural role which I do like). War Games, where the main character cracks into the states defence data bases and has to stop a nuclear strike. The Matrix where every one doesn't realise they are in a VR simulator, TRON and some others.

My opinion on Run Lola Run, it is a German with English subtitles (I like that), It's very action packed. It all start off when Lola wakes up to her telephone ringing, she picks it up to find out her boyfriend is in a phone booth and he has messed up a drug deal by loosing a bag full of 10,000 Marks (before the Euro for younger readers) in 20 mins before he is killed for his error. Sp she tells him to stay where he is as she first goes and runs to the bank where her farther works to ask him for the money which he declines. So due to this her bf robs a supermarket for the money and as Lola arrives she is fractionally too late so she decides to help him and she is eventually killed by the authorities. The it shows a clip of her and her bf asking philosophical questions to each other (which I quite liked as Philosophy is one of my subjects).
Any how, then it restarts and she does slightly different things and that changes peoples lives she interacts with and each time her of her bf dies it restarts and she appears to learn from her mistakes each time.

Personally I thought it was a good film overall and with Lola who learns from her miss takes each time was like a computer game and the characters repeat themselves and slightly change what they say and stuff.

But over all I thought I was quite interesting, however with the realism you tend to spend longer than a few mins in a casino but then she doesn't turn into a cartoon when she runs down the stairs so there's that to consider.