An empty screen is the first thing the viewer sees. Suddenly the light level in increases to reveal a face in black and white. The light allows all of the woman's facial imperfections to be seen. The reason of showing the woman's imperfections might be to show how see has nothing to hide or how she has been hiding something but now it is all out in the open for everyone to see, metaphorically speaking.
As the camera pans over to reveal more of her face the music starts to pick up and then suddenly erupts into an explosion of sound. The use of shock and suddenness that is used in the title sequence may be in reference to how suddenly the story changes or how suddenly a characters life changes for the worse.
Unusually two actors names are shown before the title of the film. This wouldn't be as unusual if all of actors were shown then the title or if the title had come last after the credits but in this case only two actors names are shown then the title, only to carry on showing other actors names after. This shows how important the actors are or how famous and well known these actors are (which is apparently very).
During the unusual set out the camera pans up the woman's face to reveal her eyes. Her pupils are extremely diluted giving the feeling that she is fearful of something that we as the viewer can't see creating the all important enigma of the thriller genre.
The camera then pan and zooms to the left to her right eye changing to an extreme close up that really shows her fear. Her eyes shift left and right creating a feeling of unease as it gives the sense that even the character doesn't know whats going to happen.
Again the camera zooms this time even closer to her eye. Suddenly her eye widens, her pupil shrinks and a red filter covers the screen as the title appears.
As the title fades a swirl seems to come out from her eye which then engulfs the entire screen and from the center of that swirl comes another and from the center of that swirl comes another, this continues until the end of the title sequence with the pattern becoming more and more complex. To accompany these patterns the credits are shown along side until the end were it reverts back to the extreme close up of the woman's face still in shock.
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