why i still keep coming back instead of runnin'
Yesterday, I watched Somewhere in Time before watching Groundhog Day . I managed to write the entirety of the entry before Groundhog Day really got going. Today, I watched Run Lola Run ( Lola Rennt ) and am now watching Groundhog Day . Subtitles and a much faster pace than Somewhere in Time kept me from typing anything until now, ten minutes into Groundhog Day . I say this to point out how little things affect bigger things. That's a major element of Run Lola Run , which doesn't involve a time loop, per se, but does involve just over 20 minutes of time repeating twice. The big thing hidden in the smaller moments of the film is that tiny changes in our interactions can lead to big changes in the lives of others--chaos theory, the butterfly effect, whatever you want to call it. The basic premise: Lola's boyfriend Manni just lost 100,000 Deutsch Marks he's supposed to be handing off to a guy named Ronnie--something to do with organized crime and diamonds--who will ...