That girl just kept running. Initially, I couldn't focus on the cinematic part of the film, just the fact that ALL this girl did was run in the same place. once I got over that part, though, i began to appreciate the film (sort of) for it's manipulation of space and time. I really couldn't stand her screaming or the animation that just felt too much like it was from a Lizzie McGuire episode. So i guess i couldn't focus on teh cinematic part of the film at all, then. There was just too much running. Although I thought theh concept was interesting, it lacked a certain lack-of-excessive-repetition for my liking.
Not all of it was terrible. I did love (when she wasn't running) when Lola and Manny are talking in bed about their lives or whatever it was they were discussing and how beautiful the lighting was. There was a romantic feeling about it all, and under the adventure of Lola's quest for all of the money was a romance. Interestingly enough, though, I found that the couple never trulye xpressed howo they felt openly in th elovey-dovey way Americans see in American movies. It's very blunt and subtle at the same time, and I enjoy it, because their love is understated verbally, but clearly emphasised in their actions, or Lola would never have helped manny the way that she did.
Also, I did like, in the manipulation of time, the snapshots of the people that Lola bumps into on her way down teh streets. They are bizarre and quick, but they say so much about the actual passage of time in each circumstance. I have never seen that in a film before, and thought it was really interesting to see such novel ways to depict life in film in modern times.
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