Jamila and the President opens with narration from Jamila (Atiqah Hasiholan), a victim of human trafficking, followed by several scenes showing her living a glamorous yet unfulfilling night life.
But "Castle" prefers to work in broad strokes; it opens with Mr. Redford explaining in an opening narration the function of a castle, and the importance of the flag there.
Goodman commented upon the video's opening narration, which was actually voiced by Agyness Deyn, "The video opens with a Rihanna voice-over that warns, 'You almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important.
Martin Sheen provided the opening narration.
Three of China's most well-known actors (Gong Li, Shu Qi, and Joan Chen) supply the narration, which blends instructions (walk down this road, open the door) with heartfelt and nostalgic story telling.
The novel centers on Kitty and contains large swaths of her cogitating and fretting by way of the third person narration, but the film opens up the story to embrace her and Walter more equally.
$20. "Open City," featuring Vijay Iyer, composer-pianist, performing with a large ensemble and narration by Teju Cole, writer, and Himanshu Suri, poet/rapper.
The film opens with exposition-heavy narration that's the cinematic equivalent of a drug commercial reading potential side-effects.
In a voice over narration that opens the movie and recurs twice, Howie lists some of the highway's victims: the singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, the filmmaker Alan J. Pakula and his own mother, who died in a car crash at Exit 52.
Perhaps it does not trust its own sensibility enough, though; the narration that opens the film and appears throughout indicates a lack of confidence, which is a shame .The French grew tired of the Republic as if she were an old wife," Némirovsky wrote in 1942.
