I think it was the best movie Disney's put out in a long, long time.
Besides the satisfying animation, wonderful art direction, and lovable characters, the plot of the movie itself is a metaphor for cultural diversity and stereotypes in a way that makes it hard not to agree that things are fucked up. Even when one side supposedly "brings balance" to the social inequality, they become the ones doing the discrimination.
I feel like Zootopia is a movie history teachers 50 years from now will show their students on halfdays to demonstrate how the themes in a kid's movie reflected real life issues of the time.
>>80469268I mean yea, "da racists" is kind of the whole movie, but the idea is that everyone is racist as fuck and they should all stop being afraid of each other. Nick was bullied out of the Scouts. Judy was only able to enter the police force because of a race inclusion initiative. Even the mayor was afraid, and rightly so, he'd get associated with the animals going "savage" because he too was a predator.
Her worldview was shattered by the way. Notice how as a kid Judy wasn't afraid of whathisfacefoxboy when he was bullying her friends. She stood up to him right up until she got clawed in the face, which left her, to put in bluntly, racist towards foxes for the entire movie even after she had just put on a play about how animals had supposedly evolved after all this time. She only overcame this when she realized Nick shared a similar childhood, despite being a predator.
The very fact she carried fox spray with her the entire movie even after hesitating to leave it at home subtly shows how even those who think they're above discrimination, really aren't. But she does overcome it after spending time with Nick and seeing how things change when the prey come to power.
But can we please fucking talk about how Judy didn't know what Nighthowlers were even when her parents were growing it on their farm and she demonstrated that she knew a lot about plants?
