Both films attempt to show that the relationship between the Indians and the Spanish is more complicated than "the Spanish came and destroyed everything just for malicious purposes ". In “The End of a Culture,” he explains how, initially, the natives welcomed colonizers like Columbus and Cortez with kindness. Many Spanish priests sincerely believed that they were saving the natives. In “The Mission,” the Jesuit priests developed a friendly relationship among the natives. Although the native population was eventually completely dismantled, these priests ended up staying with the natives until their deaths, even if it meant betraying the Spanish.