My son recommended I see the film even though he said I wouldn’t like the storyline. And we weren’t going to go but the review of Zootopia in the Herald-Sun finally did do the trick. This bit of social engineering is what got me in as this apparently is at the centre of the plot:
Once upon a time, all animals were either prey or predators. A return to that time would be a calamity from which this world would never recover.
So now the lions are lying down with the lambs – a reference unlikely to be picked up by our modernly-mis-educated children who are too busy learning other things, so instead we have a fox and a rabbit hanging out. Just like real life. Too bad if you really are a rabbit hanging out with a fox, although a rabbit is likely to have more sense than anyone brought up on such fantastic nonsense.
Oddly, the reason we are going is because they have cast sloths as public servants. More realistic, of course, but amazing to see portrayed on the screen. Dealing with the government in the US must be so vastly recognised as painful beyond measure, no one even thinks about the offence this must cause those dozens of efficient public servants that one must occasionally come across.
For what it’s worth: Rotten Tomatoes: critics 99%; audience 95% while at IMDb: 8.4.
Haven’t seen the film yet so will let you know how it went when we come back.
BACK FROM THE MOVIES: It is impossible to describe how depraved this film is. In every way worse than I could have imagined. It makes you understand how Europe and America have ended up with civilian invasions for which there are almost no psychological defences across the culture. Here is the final line of the film which is its ultimate message, superseding even the often-repeated mantra that “anyone can be anything”. These words are the actual point:
“Trust – and make the world a better place.”
We are a generation of naive and guileless fools, and if you are looking for the evidence, the 99% critics approval with the audiences at 95% tells you a great deal about what you need to know.
Not recommended, although the 108 minutes passes easily enough if you are curious about understanding how intellectually defenceless and inanely stupid our culture has become.