The opening to the film aims to show you the connection the boy has with the dog. They do this by having the boy cut a piece of line from the flag pole, they show him looking around to make sure no one is watching, making a point that he’s risking getting in trouble. Then, you see him braiding the rope and placing it on the dog. The fact that you never see a black person inside the house is a good way of indicating the power dynamic and racial time period. The boy also clearly respects the white man. He does what the man tells him to and even copies him when he sees the man take a deep breath outside. When the man tries calling the dog, it doesn’t listen to him but it comes to the boy. This gets you curious. When the man has the boy put the dog in the bag and kicks the bag it leaves you confused, but when the wife comes out and the man says: “The dog must learn” and then has the boy take the dog out of the bag, you get a message that the dog actually belongs to the man. The shot where the director focuses on the eyes of the dog when it’s taken out of the bag by the boy is very effective in making us feel and see their bond get broken. The shot of the boy as a teenager talking with the mailman shows us two things. It shows us that the dog is no longer a small friendly puppy, but a full grown angry dog. It also shows us that it doesn’t listen to the boy anymore. When the dog is chasing after the mailman the teenage boy tries to whistle for him like he used to but the dog ignores him. The scene of the man being given his pills is a good way to demonstrate he’s aged but also a key fact for the end of the movie. When they walk to go to work the dog walks next to the man not the boy and is playful with the man showing that he likes the man. When the stick falls on the mans head while they’re on their lunch break, the boy chuckles a little to himself but stops when he sees the mans glare. This scene shows the fear the boy has of the man. When the man collapses the boy tries to help and the dog won’t allow him. The man orders the boy to shoot the dog so that the boy can deliver the man his pills to save his life. The director shoots the same shot of the dog’s eyes as they had earlier in the movie. The camera goes from the boy to the gun to the dog. It then goes back to the boy and you hear the shot fire. It then shows the dog’s face one last time still alive and then the movie ends. Which confuses me a little because it feels like the director wants to tell you the boy shot the man, but it wouldn’t make sense for the boy to shoot the man because if he wanted the man to die he could just wait and not give him the pills and he wouldn’t get into as much trouble. I Compared Bambi and Inja. The way the characters are introduced are similar. You have Bambi’s mother finding a spot of grass through the snow and calling Bambi over to enjoy it. In Inja, they opened with the workers in the garden and then the boy playing with the dog. Both are happy introductions to the character. In Bambi the shooter is never introduced, you only hear the shoots from his/her weapon. In Inja the man is introduced through the window looking out at the boy and dog playing. The man is clearly unhappy. In Bambi the characters are in the wild during winter. It could be towards the end of winter since Bambi’s mother finds a small spot of grass. In Inja the characters are working around a house with a lot of land in Africa. In Bambi its mostly wide shots and a lot of follow shots. The one shot that I noticed to be really similar between the films were the close ups. Theres one in Bambi when the mother is alerted to danger and two in Inja when they show the boys eyes and the dogs eyes after the dog is taken out of the bag. In Inja the shots at the end of the film are very dramatic. They cycle between the gun, the boy, the man, and the dog. You hear the gun go off but then see the dog still alive. This scene makes you wonder if the gun shot was just in his head or if the boy really shot the man on the ground. In Bambi, While running away the mother is in the scene for each gun shot accept for the last one. Leaving us to worry about her and wonder if she got shot. We find out of course that she did after Bambi cannot find her. I would say that both of these shots leave a very strong impact with the audience.

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