Lamb over Lion Documentary Analysis

In the documentary, Lambs over Lions, they discuss how a couple of men in Northern Kenya, solve their poverty issues. The documentary is centered around three men called x, asan, and Lukas. The documentary opens with a close-up of X with his eyes focused on an object and thinking about an idea in his mind and in the faint of the background you can hear the sound of the elephants. They then do an interview where he tells the cameraman that he kills elephants and grabs their tusks to sell to make money. He talks about how he poached and how it’s illegal and he can’t get caught. They start building the dramatic arc where you see what the documentary is going to be about. So there is this one scene where they are all shooting at a tree and the camera closes up on Asan and how he’s focused on the target by the way he’s holding his weapon and squinting his eyes to show his skills off. It then cuts to them showing the tree and everyone targets and everyone talks about how Asan gets the closest shot. The camera used a high angle on Asan and captures his smile showing his happiness. The arc is starting to form because you see how they get the elephant tusk. Next scene, people are poaching and the rangers run after them and round them up, you see Asan as one of the rangers yelling at the poachers. The story gets interesting because it shows how the law is exercised by the people who are broken by a ranger. After all, he struggles with poverty and how his job doesn’t pay him enough for his family. The poachers have an inside man and use him to secretly carry out their activities without alerting the rangers. Throughout the movie, they use the angle to build the dramatic arc from start to finish. In the end, the arc finishes with them using a wide-angle shot of an elephant tusk statue to show all the tusks they confiscated that were with millions. The movie then ends with a close-up of all of them and what happened to All of them. X becomes a ranger, Lukas dies and Asan quits a ranger and finds a job to benefit him and his family.