Do you prefer its tall theme, or the sloth brothers?

Keshaun 2021-12-07 08:01:06

This cartoon caused a lot of reviews as soon as it was released, and it is currently almost phenomenally praised. Anthropomorphizing animals is what Mickey Mouse has been doing since Disney was born. This time it is a kind of mastery, letting all kinds of animals live in a harmonious city in the form of mixed races. It is not difficult to imagine that all kinds of jokes are naturally derived from the characteristics of various animals:

rabbits are extremely capable of giving birth, and the protagonist has hundreds of brothers and sisters. The population of their village is soaring continuously; the little fox who plays the double reed with the fox is Another species of fennec fox, the adult fennec fox looks like this.
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bison has messy hair and is often plagued by mosquitoes and flies, so he becomes a hippie who doesn't bathe all year round; Indian elephants love to do yoga and speak Indian English; the polar bears' luxury cars and offices are like big refrigerators. Of course, the most eye-catching star is a sloth named "Lightning". I promise you will remember this smile after watching the movie:


Sloths in the real world are like this. They have long Living in a tree, you can only move 2 meters per minute. The secret of survival is low energy consumption and eating less.
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living in the United States are more able to appreciate the stalk of a sloth. The place where the sloths work is called DMV, which is the American Vehicle Administration. The experience of doing business here is notorious. The waiting time is always more than 2 hours, the hall is always full of people, and the clerks, ha ha ha, this is so vivid.

In addition to the animal features, there are two general respects in this film, one is "The Godfather" and the other is "Breaking Bad". Especially in "The Godfather", the look of drooping cheeks, the hoarse voice, and the classic smell of flowers on the chest, kisses, Marlon Brando would never have dreamed that he would one day be photographed with this face Bar. Including the spoiled daughter who is about to get married, and even the Italian wedding, it is highly restored.


If it were just these hilarious sections, this cartoon would not cause such a wide range of comments. It has greater ambitions. In fact, the indication of this ambition is obvious, and that is the racial problem in the United States. These diverse animals symbolize various races and diverse cultures. What this film wants to promote is naturally to overcome cross-racial prejudice and hostility, and people of all ethnic groups gather together. Weak rabbits are stereotypically regarded as cute, and they can be called cute to each other, but it is prejudice for other animals to judge it this way. Isn’t it like black people can call nigger casually, and other people call it so offensive? The fox must be cunning, and everyone doesn't trust him. Rabbit farms are like the vast rural areas of the United States with only whites. Everyone feels that the city is mixed and dangerous. 10% of the inhabitants in the city are carnivores, which is highly consistent with the proportion of the black American population and also in line with their stereotype that they are considered dangerous. As for a meat-eater mayor (president), a herbivorous vice mayor (president), let alone...

let's look at the story again. Some carnivores went crazy and made violent actions. Some herbivores judged that this was written in the genes of carnivores, which caused panic and racial confrontation. This reflects the fact that many people question the genes and nature of blacks in reality. Of course, such politically incorrect cannot be Disney’s conclusion, there must be a conspiracy behind it. It turned out that some herbivores secretly tricked it. This setting is worthy of fun. It is absolutely impossible for the film to set the plot as a predator secretly spoiling it, otherwise it will wait for the tide of protests and boycotts from black groups. The political correctness of the United States is sometimes a bit overdone, and now it has suffered such a heavyweight rebound, and only then has Donald Trump become popular.

Pulling away. As you may see, this cartoon has a very clear meaning of being tall, and it also allows this cartoon to not only entertain children, but also play an educational role. But I think this is also its problem. The main plot of this animation is too tight and too obvious on the theme of race, and Disney, as one of the leftist base camps, its solution is naturally to respect and integrate each other, and to be harmonious. The vision is beautiful, but the facts are not so simple, Disney knows itself, the film is named Zootopia, it is Zoo (Zoo) + Utopia (Utopia). It’s not that cartoons cannot carry grand themes (such as the environmental protection of Hayao Miyazaki’s animation), but the intentions are so obvious and the reasoning is too simplistic, so that in the second half, they basically forget to use sloths. The ease and imagination represented by the godfather, on the contrary, brought a lot of preaching flavor.

In fact, when you compare with Pixar, you can find that tragic or grand stories have always been Disney's favorites. From "Snow White" to "The Lion King", "Beauty and the Beast", "Cinderella", etc., the protagonist suffers from repeated misfortunes, grows hard in adversity, and finally shines. Pixar pays more attention to the ordinary growth of ordinary people itself. For example, the farewell childhood of "Toy Story", the father-son reconciliation of "Finding Nemo", and even the growing troubles of the recent "Brain Agents", all tell the stories of ordinary people, but they are all so sincere and delicate, and full of Surprise of unconstrained imagination. Stories that are so close to each of us can often bring us more moved. In contrast, I prefer Pixar's to see the big from the small.


Of course, I will remember the sloth brothers.

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Zootopia quotes

  • Frantic Pig: You, bunny!

    Judy Hopps: Sir, if you have a grievance, you may contest your citation in traffic court.

    Frantic Pig: What are you talking about? My shop! It was just robbed! Look! He's getting away! Well, are you a cop or not?

    Judy Hopps: Oh, yes! Yes! Don't worry, sir! I've got this!

  • Nick Wilde: So, are all rabbits bad drivers or is it just you?

    Judy Hopps: [abruptly stopping the car] Oops. Sorry.