>>83647704This is actually my biggest problem with the movie, the motivation of the bad guy, or should I say lack of motivation. So her boss was a cunt... and? Almost everyone's boss is. Boo fucking hoo, Judy's boss was the meanest character in this entire movie. So this lion bumped into her here and there, gave her a funny name and a stupid mug. 10/10 amazing backstory to creating a monster! Best Disney villain EVER guys!!
But seriously, the worse part is he could have easily been a prey animal and treated her the same way; judy's shitty boss was a prey animal and he was worse. I wanted to see an actual reason why Bellwether hated preds specifically, but she just didn't have one. She disliked this one guy for being a jerk and it didn't have anything to do with what he was. Sorry, that isn't the way prejudice usually works in real life, people don't just wake up one day and decide to hate other groups of people. If you want to treat the problem of racism, you have to actually acknowledge the symptoms that cause it.
It's not like the Islamophobia people have today was something randomly pulled out of a hat, and it wasn't just the actions of one person being a jerk that caused it... this movie would have you believe that, though. Hell, even the now popular hate being thrown at white people today stems from actual shitty white people with backwards ideas who can't stop making asses of themselves in public/on the news.
But I see why they went the route they did. This is a "The preds didn't do nuthin" story, because if they complicated things and actually gave Bellwether a reason to dislike the preds, then suddenly the story, and racism by extension, is given an uncomfortable ambiguity. It was either that, or the story not making sense, and they obviously went with 'not making sense' since the former option was out of the question.
