Whether art imitates life or life imitates art is one of the great debates of our times. The critically acclaimed, animated feature film, Zootopia, has managed to cleverly favor both sides of the argument. This movie uses the analogy of animals of different species to represent people of different races and cultures within a given society. The different species are divided into the categories of predators and prey, with predators being the minority at 10% and prey being the majority population. Throughout the movie we see many examples of real life issues dealing with race, class, bias, stereotypes, social justice and other topics. The characters in this movie become subtle metaphors for not so subtle American problems.
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We see the word “cute” being used as a racial slur as Judy replies that other rabbits are allowed to call each other cute, but not animal of different species. This analogy reflects real life, racial slurs such as the “n-word” in relation to blacks. It is used as an insult by members of other races, but in the black community it is often used as a term of friendship.
Through the introduction of the character Nick Wilde, we learn more in depth about to prejudice between prey and predators. We see Nick wanting to buy ice cream at an elephant ice cream shop, but is denied service because he is a fox and must be looking to cause trouble. Judy sees this injustice and speaks up against it. As she tries to be accepting of Nick even though he is a fox, she quickly learns that he truly is up to no good. Nick enlightens Judy about the truth of Zootopia, that it isn’t the perfect place she thought it would be and everyone doesn’t get along and live in …show more content…
This lead him to live how he does now, he states, “if the world is only going to see a fox as shifty and untrustworthy, why try to be anything else”. This is relevant in our society today as many people of minority groups are treated certain ways by people of different races and even people of their own race or, portrayed a certain way in movies and TV. This leads them to believe they are expected to be that way and closed off from realizing who they can be outside of what their race is
In this movie we follow …show more content…
We see the word “cute” being used as a racial slur as Judy replies that other rabbits are allowed to call each other cute, but not animal of different species. This analogy reflects real life, racial slurs such as the “n-word” in relation to blacks. It is used as an insult by members of other races, but in the black community it is often used as a term of friendship.
Through the introduction of the character Nick Wilde, we learn more in depth about to prejudice between prey and predators. We see Nick wanting to buy ice cream at an elephant ice cream shop, but is denied service because he is a fox and must be looking to cause trouble. Judy sees this injustice and speaks up against it. As she tries to be accepting of Nick even though he is a fox, she quickly learns that he truly is up to no good. Nick enlightens Judy about the truth of Zootopia, that it isn’t the perfect place she thought it would be and everyone doesn’t get along and live in …show more content…
This lead him to live how he does now, he states, “if the world is only going to see a fox as shifty and untrustworthy, why try to be anything else”. This is relevant in our society today as many people of minority groups are treated certain ways by people of different races and even people of their own race or, portrayed a certain way in movies and TV. This leads them to believe they are expected to be that way and closed off from realizing who they can be outside of what their race is