April 2016 Media Thread

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This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.

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.

0NancyLebovitz10y

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.

0MrMind10y

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.