Analysis: Title Sequence The Game

The title sequence The Game starts off with the screen appearing with loads of puzzle pieces before the main part of the title sequence is shown. The puzzle pieces could suggest that there is a sense of mystery in the film and like a puzzle there is something that is going to be solved. There is a lot of connotations to water in the title sequence. We see 3 boats being pushed along in the water by some little children. Also we see a young boy being pushed into the lake which suggests this could be a main feature in the film or that there could be a issue involving water. 

All the way through the title sequence we are shown a young boys birthday party in a garden which we assume is his as we see a big estate house at the bottom of it and at the door of the estate stands the young boy we see at the start standing with a older man we presume is his father. We see the man that is standing with the boy start to walk slowly away from him. This tells me that the man we suppose is his father will have maybe left him when he was a young boy. At the very end of the title sequence the camera quickly cuts to a man in his bathroom again with water being a main object splashing his face to wake him self up which could suggest he has just woken up and he was dreaming or having flash blacks about all the things happening in the title sequence. We understand that the man hasn't had the best child hood and he may either have a fear of water or associates it with bad events that have happened in his families past. I like the title sequence as it leaves you asking  a lot of questions as to why certain elements have been repeated and we know from the very start that there is a sense of suspicion and mystery.