intro- description

The opening to lord of war is of the camera following a bullet through its creation and the whole process of packaging and storing, selling, and use and ends up showing what bullets do which is kill people and sometimes innocent people like a little boy in the background get caught up in all the violence and shows the bullet hitting his head. The song used over the credits in the intro is by Buffalo Springfield- for what its worth.

The intro relates to the film because the film is about "gun running" which is the illegal selling of arms and causes death that could be prevented but isn't because someone gets to make money out of it where the people using the guns are going to war and  ultimately dying. The life of a bullet intro shows the realism of how deadly bullets are and that people can get away with making a profit out of war and death.

This intro appeals to me for a number of reasons, one is that its based on something real. Also because its something different and clever because of how the camera follows the bullet through its entire life just to end up killing a little boy and i think when that happens it brings you back from the fictional part of the movie to the realism of it like a big exclamation mark.