This title sequence is simple but effective in giving the audience a little about what the film is about. Bullets and guns. The titles start with a tilt shot, then the camera moves into one of the mechines and follows bullets being made. at one point it almost picks a bullet and then throughout the opening we the audience are the bullet and we see what happens to them and how they get made then used. The bullet eventually ends up in a box, the screen goes black and a moment later the box is opened by a Russian soldier, from this we can tell that Russia will have somthing to do with the movie and that when the screen when black it was time passing as well as being in a box.
Then the box is opened again and we are in a different country. We see a crane arm come towards the box and all the bullets are knocked onto the floor. As we care still the bullet we are picked up and put into the box again. The font that is used for the names is very army like and that gives us more of a clue of what the film is about. Later on the bullets are dumped onto the ground and it is picked up and loaded into a magaizne for a gun. The gun is then fired a few times and then it gets to the bullet we have been watching and we are looking down the barrel like we are the bullet again and ready to be fired.
The bullet is then fired and we see it in slo-motion and it hits a small boy in the head. The screen goes black and it is then the movie. I think what this tells the audience is that life is short, we are born then die. Just like the life of a bullet. And that war is horrible.
This title sequence is very effective in intriguing the audience into watching the rest of the film.
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