Such a great film to start with. This is exciting stuff.
I have read many great comments to this opening, and I particularly liked the one pointing out the innocence versus experience paradigm.
We can surely see and/or hear the embodiment of innocence (the children) and of experience (the women).
Men, however, do not seem to be neither innocent or experienced. In the second part of the opening sequence, we can see a group of parents waiting for their kids outside of the school entrance. In the middle, there is a man wearing a hat, separated from the rest, a bourgeois looking man, standing