Zootopia

For a "movie for kids", Zootopia had a very grown, mature message.There were plenty of deeper, more meaningful things in the movie that relate directly to what's going on in todays world. For example, The relation between predator and prey have a lot of similarities to racism between white and blacks. I hope its not my mind finding the dark in every situation but there were multiple scenes of this being displayed. For example, around the beginning of the movie, there was a scene where a the fox (Nick), who is a predator, was denied ice cream from a store because of who he is. This reminds me of the bad ole days where blacks were refused service by plenty of places with white owners, around the 1950s, 1960s. There was another scene of such discrimination being shown. Near the end of the movie, when discussing how the predators, which in my eyes are African-Americans, were all turning violent and couldn't be controlled, there was another scene. When on the train, a tiger, which is a predator, sat down on the train and started reading a newspaper, doing nothing wrong. However, when a mother rabbit, who is "prey", saw the predator sit down she moved her little bunny daughter close to her, visibly scared and shook. Zootopia is supposed to be a perfect place, free of all issues but its not. Kind of similar to how some white politicians think that the United States used to be "great", when slavery and Jim Crow still ran the town. All in all, Zootopia is a great movie with a great message. At the end, it was proven predator and prey can get along, just as white and blacks should be able to. The world may never be perfect, the people in power may never be perfect, but its the people, who make the difference in the end. I would give Zootopia 10/10 rating on my Yelp account if I had one.