Now Run Lola Run is a very repetitive film where it is about a girl who keeps going back in time so that her friend doesn't die. So basically every time she tries to save him, he dies anyway so she goes back to the beginning of the film again and then every time she does something different to see if it has a different effect and it changes the outcome.
The thing about post modernist films the same as any other kind of movie genre, for example if you were to watch The Avengers the action film; you would expect there to be action, explosions and massive fight scenes and i bet you were not disappointed. This is the same thing with postmodernist films since in most of them they seem to be repetitive, and is a constant reminder to the audience that they are not real.
This can be seen in Run Lola Run where as soon as something happens that isn't supposed to, she rewinds time to attempt to fix it in a different way but then it still doesn't work out in the end. Another element that can be seen in postmodern films is that the film may switch to a different genre e.g. it may switch to animation, or it will switch the mood so that it is a thriller, love story or even a drama. As at the beginning of the film, we see that as Lola is running out of her apartment the film switches to an animation of her running down the steps of the flat.
Now there are many different kind of miniature narratives in a film. In Run Lola Run there isn't one simple narrative in the film because she keeps rewinding time to try and save her friend. so during the entire film we see about 10 different outcomes. As well as the different outcomes, it would seem that Lola has no morality as at one of the outcomes, I am sure that she robs her father's account or bank in order to get the money that she needs even though she first asked her father and he rejected her which forced her hand.

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