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TV and Movies (Animation) Thread
Just saw Zootopia. Best movie I've seen so far this year - it's a legit "buddy cop" detective story as well as a satisfying parable about racism and stereotyping. There's even a blink-and-you'll-miss-it Breaking Bad reference. ;)
In the story the attacks supposedly committed by minorities are actually committed by the government. To map this onto reality, it appears that the story is an allegory for how Bush did 9/11!
But I'm fairly sure Bush didn't actually mastermind 9/11. And I imagine that if there were a society of animals with human-level intelligence, different species would commit crimes at vastly different rates - after all, regardless of whether human biodiversity is a thing, animal biodiversity certainly is!
So I thought the moral of the story completely falls to pieces when you think about it. Despite that, the film was certainly enjoyable.
Well, by a faction within the government...
Aside from mapping onto anything in particular, the mayor is a predator. Why is he involved int the conspiracy?
He was in a separate conspiracy. The deputy mayor was turning the carnivores savage, the mayor was covering it up. They had no knowledge of what the other one was doing.
I had a lot of fun watching it, but the story fell apart the more I thought about it. Who was behind the conspiracy? Why did they think it made any sense at all?
Not exactly a logical failure, but what's going to happen with our idealistic cop and her friendship with an organized crime boss? I'm hoping this will be the central issue driving a sequel.
Not to mention all that tax evasion never actually got resolved.
She eventually gives him the carrot pen so he can delete the recording, no?
Sure, but that doesn't change all the tax he evaded.
I saw it and I liked it, Breaking Bad reference included... I was actually surprised that there wasn't a Gazelle app like the one shown in the movie, after all similar apps are quite common.
There is this.
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