The opening sequence begins with happy and dreamy non-diegetic music, which sets the mood for the scene. A white horse is scene galloping in the background as a young girl pushes a wheelbarrow.
Another shot is shown later, which shows the young girl positioned in the foreground, with the house in the background, to show the audience where she is in relation to the house.
There then follows a shot which pans down from the girl crouching above the lake. When the shot reaches the water, it shows her reflection in the water, which promotes the notion of her being underwater subliminally to the audience.
The shot of the couple in the house shows the male figure looking at pictures, whilst who is presumed to be his wife sits with her back to him on the other side of the room. They appear very distant from each other by the way the shot is composed.
After this there are more shots of the girl walking, but these shots are of her reflection in the water, again giving the idea of her underwater.
There is also a shot of the boy on his bike, running over a piece of glass and falling off his bike. Another scene is juxtaposed right after this of the Father looking up as if he heard the glass break, although this is impossible as he is too far away, which gives the idea that he can feel something is wrong, however it is evident that the wife does not have this same ability as she proceeds to act as normal and talk about the book she is reading.
There is also then a shot of the mother putting her hand to her face to ask for a cigarette, which is immediately followed by a shot of the daughter doing the same hand motion, and finishing the action.
Afterwards there is also another shot which has the boy in the foreground and the girl in the background to show their distance from each other.
There is also another shot where the father finishes the action of the daughter, which starts with her showing a ball, and then the father finishes the action by throwing a pack of cigarettes to his wife. This also happens again when the ball lands in the water and then a shot of the father knocking over a glass of water is juxtaposed straight after to finish the action.
The father also continues to show that he can sense something is wrong when blood emerges on the photo and he immediately looks up. Although it is evident something is wrong and he can sense it. He tells the wife that nothing is wrong so they he is keeping something from her.
There is then a shot after of the daughter submerged in water, which had been foreshadowed throughout the opening sequence.
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