Both the film The Mission (1986) and Embrace of the Serpent (2015) deal with the issue of the cultural influence of Christian missions on Latin American aborigines. However, the former weakened the conflict between the native culture and the missionary culture, while the latter highlighted this conflict. The change in the perspective of the two films depends on the difference between their respective focusers. It is precisely because of the different focusers that the Christian culture has different roles in the two films: in The Mission, the missionary culture is gospel for the native culture; in Embrace of the Serpent, the missionary culture is the isomorph of colonial culture.