The film opens with a series of home video style clips. These have a homemade feel due to being filmed with a hand held camera.
These childhood clips and spliced with long shots of two men walking down various paths. The juxtaposition of these two styles and subject matters gives a sense of nostalgia and suggests that the boys in the childhood videos and the men walking, which infers that they are brothers.
When the childhood videos play there is a grainy effect over the video telling us that the videos are old and adding to the sense of nostalgia they give you. The transitions in these parts and very quick which gives a fast pace, but between the shots of the men and the home videos the transitions are very slow with gives a sense of time passing. These slow transitions are fades meaning you can see both images, making it smoothly and gently fuse together the two scenes.
In the videos from the past the setting colors are bright like reds, yellows, pinks and blues. This is a contrast to the coloring of the setting of the countryside that the men are walking in which is mostly green and grey. This gives a sense of childhood compared with adulthood.
The childhood scenes also have a golden yellow color added to them which gives a sense of warmth and nostalgia.
The way that the scenery of the men walking changes from fields to forest and back to fields lets you know that a long time is passing and they have been traveling for a long time.
There is no sound apart from an acoustic song in the background which sounds very emotional and reminiscent. It mentions being on the run which seems to tie in with the imagery of the men walking away. The fact that there's no dialogue adds mystery and keeps the audience from knowing very much too early.
I feel that this opening tells us subtly that the two men are brothers who are running away from something and that we understand this through the use of home videos and music.
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