10 Movie Openings You're Not Supposed To Understand

Tom Ford's daring psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals opens with a provocative titles sequence that left most everyone scrambling to figure out what it really meant.

The credits roll over several minutes of footage of overweight women dancing in the nude, before we cut to art gallery owner Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) sat observing an exhibit of said overweight women laying down as "displays" in the gallery.

Even so, we've got virtually zero context for the exhibit or why Ford would opt to open his film in such "confronting" and "controversial" fashion. It's certainly an eye-catching way to kick things off, albeit one that's inevitably going to baffle as many as it entices.

By film's end the precise meaning of the imagery remains highly ambiguous, yet Ford did offer up his own take on what it was supposed to mean:

"The whole thing is a bit of a fairy tale, and they're sort of the witches leading you in... They're the Valkyrie in a sense, casting a spell on the entire film. So there were a lot of different reasons for that sequence, and not least of all, it grabs the audience at the very beginning and gets them into the story.”

If the titles sequence is less about the exact meaning and more concerned with ensuring the audience is paying full attention, then it certainly succeeds.