VOY VOY VOY

When we first got the brief, it sounded like the setup for a political thriller: the Egyptian revolution, national panic, people packing their lives into suitcases and sprinting to the airport like it’s the apocalypse. A country cracking at the seams. Drama? Check. Trauma? Check. But then came the twist — “Don’t take it too seriously,” they said. “Make it light.” As if that chaos was just the warm-up act for a surreal comedy of human absurdity. So we leaned into that paradox. No direct spoilers. No dramatized recreations. jut stripped-down scenes, stylized, and simmering with irony.

So, how do you set the tone for a film that walks the tightrope between collapse and comedy? You call on the ghost of Saul Bass.

This title sequence doesn’t waste your time. It kicks off with a visual sucker punch straight from the Saul Bass playbook: bold shapes, no-frills palettes, and that slick, stripped-back motion design that’s somehow more emotional than a crying close-up. Think The Man with the Golden Arm, but swap heroin for a country on fire.

The whole thing unfolds in a graphic, minimalist world where everything’s falling apart buildings, order, logic. But here’s the twist: it’s also kind of…funny?

Yeah, people are running. Sirens are wailing. The metaphorical flames are very much literal. But the chaos? It’s choreographed. Citizens dash in exaggerated loops. Police cars do awkward pirouettes. The helicopters look like wind-up toys that got way too ambitious. It’s absurd, but so was the revolution if you were watching it in real time with Twitter open and your mom yelling to stock up on lentils.

This is where the sequence earns its weight: it doesn’t mock the crisis, it frames it. It reminds you that sometimes, when the world breaks, all you can do is laugh for a second before the pain sets in. That’s not disrespect. That’s survival.

So what you get isn’t just a Bass homage it’s a remix. A clever, biting, stylish prelude that sets the tone: things are about to get heavy. But first, a smirk. A breath. A beautifully designed middle finger to despair.

Welcome to the story.