Since we watched Lola rennt, it made me think of another film I had seen starring Moritz Bleibtreu called Das Experiment. Although it is quite different from Run Lola Run, it still contains a love story with a powerful woman, and ultimately the man saving the day. It is about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, which you are probably familiar with if you have taken any psychology course.
The experiment consisted of 20 men in a prison environment. They were each assigned a role of either prisoner or prison guard. The prison guards were given the instruction of maintaining peace without violence. The point of the experiment, from what I remember, is to see what would happen if you gave ordinary men power. Would they let it go to their heads?
I'm not sure how different the movie is from the actual event. That would be interesting to research. The film, however, centers around Bleibtreu, a reporter who is rigged with a camera in his eyeglasses, trying to get a story.
I really liked how Hirschbiegel took a real life event to make an intriguing film. I recommend you watch it when you get the chance.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi4070572313/
Das Experiment is a great movie. It does feel a lot like Run Lola Run, but I think that's mostly because of the glossy high budget modern feel about it. Although there are some parallels between the relationship between the main male and female characters, the movie definitely focuses a lot more on Bleibtreu. I haven't read too much about the actual experiment, but I know that it was stopped less than a week in. Some of the things the guards do in the movie are based on what actually happened, but I haven't seen a reliable definitive list. Obviously since the actual experiment was stopped, a lot of the movie is just speculation on what might have happened if it had continued.
ReplyDeleteI watched this movie as well and like the movie I wrote about before "Das Welle" it is about a social and psychological experiments based on a true life event that weirdly enough always originated from an experiment conducted in America. Why do you think German cinema seems to like to make movies based on these "social experiments"?
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