Loved the usage of the jaguar and the snake. If the sympathetic though occasionally oblivious main white characters weren't obvious enough, I think that this film was very pro-ethnography which makes sense given that it's inspired by two real ethnographic journals. Karamakate sees Theo as an extension of imperialism, but realizes too late that he's the jaguar and Theo's the snake, implying that Karamakate is the root of his death. In the end, Karamakate takes the role of the snake and gives Evan the spots of the jaguar and disappears in the morning. Karamakate realizes how people like Evan can be a vessel for his culture when he doesn't have youth to influence, and embraces it as a part of the circle of life like the predator eating prey. The jaguar mainly preserves the presence of itself, but that snake is still a part of it.

Thought that it had an excellent realistic message that handled it without going into white saviour, patronizing, or straight up racist tropes that a lot of films along these lines fall into.