Rainer Werner Fassbinder strikes again! This movie is so interesting, both as a reinterpretation of The Blue Angel and as a commentary on post-war Germany. It's part of Fassbinder's trilogy looking at that time and place through the lens of women's experiences (this is the third and final film, after The Marriage of Maria Braun and Veronika Voss). The thing I think that people remember from Lola is the completely saturated neon color scheme, inspired by the melodramas of Douglas Sirk and the Technicolor palette of postwar American film. Anyway there is a very interesting struggle happening here between morality/amorality, corruption/partnership, love/commerce and inclusion/exclusion. It's a great film and although the ending is a bummer (but not the tragedy of The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) it's a damn joy to watch.
(Also I'm not sure that there's a huge amount of symbolism attributed to specific colors but if I had to guess I would say that sin is represented by pink/red and morality by blue.)
Hey look! It's baby Udo Kier!
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