This shot frames the chicken staring directly into the camera and at the audience, this makes it seem as though it is watching something happen. Feathers then fall in front of the lens to create a cut like the knives did previously in the sequence. The director does this to create momentary tension, to make the audience to begin to feel a connection with the chicken.
There is then a shot of a pile of feathers of plucked chickens, which is added to by the feathers that fell in front of the camera in the lats shot. This is an eyeline match signifying to the audience that this is what the chicken is watching in fear. The director has placed this into the sequence to make the audience feel sympathy towards the chicken, and then to create an effect finished in the next shot.
We are then shown another shot of the chicken, but he seems more panicked, this is likely due to the Kuleshov Effect. Telling the audience that he is worried that this is going to happen to him next. The director did this to make the audience worry and show that the chicken is in imminent danger.
The final shot here is of the chicken's leg tethered to a post, this links to the previous shots, telling us that he wants to break free of the tether which is the only thing keeping him within the vicinity of this danger. The director has also placed this shot in here to link to the main protagonist, telling the audience that he feels the same as the chicken does, wanting to break away from the danger of the favela and the gang. Just like the chicken.
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