Alex Spencer

Finally saw Zootopia/tropolis, and loved it, and remember there being loads of essays when it came out, but now can't find anything. Help?

Best thing I've managed to find so far is @devincf's piece looking at why the film isn't a particularly neat analogy http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/03/03/zootopia-review-a-muddled-mess-of-racial-messaging...-and-cute-animals …

Don't 100% agree with it, and I found the headline off-puttingly out of sync with the actual argument, but it's great smart writing.

I'd argue that the two different prejudices in the film (large/small and predator/prey) is actually kind of a strength...

Discourages reading the film as a straight analogy, which would be clumsy & problematic (like @devincf says about the coding of 'predator')

I'd argue that the lesson is more that prejudice can cut all sorts of ways. I guess it's kind of a film about intersectionality?

I'm not sure if there's a character (or group) in the film that's directly analogous to straight white male.