Take ONE of the following elements: themes, character, setting, and show how they have been successfully presented within the film you have studied.

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Take ONE of the following elements: themes, character, setting, and show how they have been successfully presented within the film you have studied.

Throughout the film, Run Lola Run, is a central theme of time. This theme is presented successfully through the use of characters, symbols and ideas presented in the film. The whole film centres on Lola running to save Manni and this in turn demonstrates the theme, time and the race against it, setting the upbeat pace for the movie. Tykwer, the director, presents an intricate approach to time in the film as he considers time as reoccurring or cyclical drawn from Nietzsche's view stating all time is circular and repeats itself endlessly. Tykwer extends this idea to a concept of time as a spiral that appears to repeat, but each repetition is vaguely different in small yet hugely noteworthy details.

All the characters excluding Lola appear to be dominated by time and fate, as in fact most characters in life are also. The characters accept their fate and limitations in their lives, deciding to suffer the consequences of the lack of the vibrant energy that only Lola exudes. Jutta if tearfully pregnant while Papa suffers