Blind Chance (1987)
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
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What critics compared Blind Chance to
Other movies, like Sliding Doors and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance, have explored similar ideas, but Van Dormael pushes the conceit close to its breaking point, depicting parallel-lives-within-lives.
Run Lola Run will be compared to many other titles like: Rashomon (1950), Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance (1981), Night on Earth (1992), Groundhog Day (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), last year's Sliding Doors , and the recent titles Go and Twice Upon a Yesterday , as well as episodes of "The X-Files."
Compared to the alternate scenarios envisioned in "Sliding Doors" or "Blind Chance," "Run Lola Run" comes across as pedestrian and it stretches credibility that in a mere 20 minutes Lola can run from her home to her father's office and then to Manni; it looks like she's been running for hours.
Blind Chance, finished in 1981 but withheld from release for six years, goes off something of a metaphysical deep end, though its structure was innovative enough to provide inspiration (if that's the word) for Sliding Doors and Run Lola Run.
In addition to being exactly the kind of pop-culture reference these characters might actually make in this situation, it’s exceedingly sly, because Sliding Doors—like Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance, which it strongly resembles—is about, well, blind chance.
(In fact, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance toyed with similar elements of life, death, and crashing planes.)