Zootopia is one of my favorite movies and when I saw that it was going to be shown as a Friday Film, I had to attend! Zootopia is a movie that has quite a bit of real-world relevance with the most relevant topic being discrimination, in my opinion. This movie is about a bunny named Judy that wants to be a police officer, an uncommon profession for an animal as small and unassuming as a bunny. The movie follows Judy’s journey in pursuing her dream job and solving a large scale crime with the help of someone that should be her natural enemy.

We were asked to look at different forces that were working against Judy during the movie and the thing that stuck out to me the most was the fact that at her workplace, once she became a cop, her workplace was not suitable for an animal her size. For example, her chair was too small and she couldn’t even see above the table. Additionally, once she received her first assignment, which was being a meter maid, she all of a sudden had accommodations that were appropriate (ex. correct size car, etc.). This, to me, was demonstrative of the institutionalized discrimination that we can see in our world which can be deterring to people trying to do more than those before them.