Zootopia is a film about a cute little bunny trying to get respect in her field. Along the way she befriends a fox (her natural enemy) and saves the town. But despite all the child like wonder of the film it is a metaphor for the war on drugs. Just like how the big animals were drugged and portrayed to be dangerous, Ronald Reagan did that to minorities in America. The government brought drugs into minority communities to ruin them. And then with the War on Drugs it tried to blame minorities for these drugs. The war was a tactic to lock minorities up to fill up jails while ruining the black family dynamic. The War on Drugs has a left a wound on minority families that some are still trying to heal.
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Zootopia was so deeply and blatantly metaphorical, I was stunned while I watched it for the first time a while back. Police corruption? Xenophobia? Derogatory public perception of predator animals? Segregation? That one scene where Judy’s internal biases against foxes made her a bit trigger-happy and she had her hand on her belt ready to reach for her spray thingy?? Zootopia is a sociology lecture disguised as a children’s movie tbh and I am here for it
Your reflection is quite analytical. I probably would have never thought and come up with such an interesting interpretation of the movie.