It’s the mood of a grand awakening, a morning in the vast vista of landscape sweeping by, and the titles are like luminescent blue spirits rising upwards into the sky suggesting that the strong landscape itself releases the supernatural. This film was great in that it presents horror within a framework of daylight, brightly lit sets, natural pastoral settings, and daydream dazes. Two of the pieces “horror” music used in the film (Penderecki) were even titled: De Natura Sonoris 1 and De Natura Sonoris 2 and also “The Awakening of Jakob”. The font is almost scientific in it’s simple clarity, and fits Kubrick’s style of movie. He always has this clinical study of situations and settings, as if a very formal “alien” intelligence is observing with no emotion to color the view.
This title sequence also fits with the ingredient of the Native American burial ground dialogue, hinting again at the Indian theme of supposed forces of supernatural completely tied in with the natural.
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