Zootopia was a mess. I finally got around to watching it at the beginning of last month and I think the message it was aiming for was a good one but the execution was messy. Spoilers ahead. It does a pretty good job of establishing that there’s systemic prejudice against prey species in their setting, then plot happens and one of the oppressed folks does something horrific to the oppressors and briefly manages to flip the oppression and since the predators experienced systemic oppression they… Uh… realized it was bad? Or did the ending just end up at a slightly less shitty return to the original status quo with lessons learned by a few of the main characters?
I also may have had a certain real world event fresh in my mind that definitely didn’t help.
Predators are all over the societal food chain. Consider Nick.
To me it was more of a detective story X coming-of-age story. The actual social commentary doesn’t cleanly map onto specific issues beyond a general “discrimination and crime are wrong”.
Zootopia was a mess. I finally got around to watching it at the beginning of last month and I think the message it was aiming for was a good one but the execution was messy. Spoilers ahead. It does a pretty good job of establishing that there’s systemic prejudice against prey species in their setting, then plot happens and one of the oppressed folks does something horrific to the oppressors and briefly manages to flip the oppression and since the predators experienced systemic oppression they… Uh… realized it was bad? Or did the ending just end up at a slightly less shitty return to the original status quo with lessons learned by a few of the main characters?
I also may have had a certain real world event fresh in my mind that definitely didn’t help.
Predators are all over the societal food chain. Consider Nick.
To me it was more of a detective story X coming-of-age story. The actual social commentary doesn’t cleanly map onto specific issues beyond a general “discrimination and crime are wrong”.
Do you think cities didn’t have black mayors until Obama ended racism forever or what?
That is an insane takeaway from my reply.
Only if you don’t understand sarcasm or media.