Zootopia Blog #4

Zootopia Blog

Zootopia is an animated movie about a bunny following her dreams in a utopian society. The irony is that most of this movies’ audience hasn’t even learned what a utopia is yet. Everyone doubted Judy Hopps, the bunny, including her parents, and encouraged her to be who she’s “supposed” to be and not who she wants to be. In the movie, bunnies worked on farms with their families and that’s what is expected of her. However, she is determined to be the first bunny police officer. Her character was ambitious and determined. Zootopia was known as the city where everyone can be whoever they want, which is what motivated her. One major issue in this utopia was the norms. Hopps struggled and fought to fit outside the norm and doing so, she ended up setting a norm herself. When she said that all prey animals will eventually go savage, she unintentionally included her partner, Nick the fox, in that norm. This completely contradicted her motivation to be who you want and not what people see you as.

Another problem in this utopia is the corrupt government. The mayor and assistant mayor were scheming against the entire city. They were the outliers in the utopia who distanced themselves. They didn’t want the society to be happily ever after. They aspired for more of a good guy versus bad guy city. Their plan was to target all the prey and make them evil again, however, Hopps caught on to the scheme and ended it.

It was very interesting how Nick and Hopps became such good friends throughout the movie. In the beginning of the movie, naturally, Hopps’ feared foxes. Now, she was good friends and worked with one. Had she not come to the utopia, she may have still had that fear instilled in her. Towards the end of the movie, Nick and Hopps were faced with a speed racer case. Come to find out, the speed racer was a sloth. Earlier in the movie, this same sloth performed everything extremely slow. It was ironic that the slowest character was a fast driver and was in trouble for speeding. This goes to show that anyone can be anything they want in Zootopia. This utopian movie was full of irony and realizations.