Generic Ideas
The notion of 'I'.
"The Look"
A great insight into Sally Potter's views and approaches.
There are many similarities to that of the first page of the shooting script, elaborating on certain natural occurrences such as 'the clouds are now racing across the sky'. She emphasizes on this in the script: 'white clouds race extremely fast... to the sound of insistent racing music'. Notions of rapidness, linked to time and thus life?
The introduction of Orlando, compared to that off the novel, is very personal and spiritual - digging deep into the essence of 'Orlando' him/herself (through first-person narration) rather than what Orlando currently is (a biographical description of the present character).