How to understand "Beast Topia" ugly

Thaddeus 2021-12-07 08:01:06

Let us first imagine that if all the animals in Zootopia were reduced to humans and made into a film, would you still think that it still deserves the current evaluation? It talked about a little Indian girl who worked hard, graduated with honors from the New York State Police Academy, then boarded the train to Greater New York with the dream of becoming a leader, but was arranged to become a traffic police officer (she originally wanted to become the FBI! ), and then accidentally found clues to a case of the disappearance of a very large population, and met a small Italian gangster who had a speculative life. The little Indian girl thought it was an opportunity, and she seized the small Italian gangster self-employed. The handle of tax evasion, to coerce the gangster to use his social resources on the streets to help her investigate. During the investigation, various glimpses and jokes about social stratification, bureaucracy, democracies, gangs, black market trade, etc. were interspersed, and finally they were involved in a political conspiracy. The little Indian girl was used by the African-American female vice president as a tool for the vice president to overthrow the orthodox male WASP president. Through the missing persons incident he concocted by the vice president, he claimed that WASPs have the social Darwinism genes of the weak and aggressive, so that they are natural factors of social instability to encourage social exclusion of the WASP, which is a minority elite group in the United States, and frame the president. In order to be in power. Because he also has white descent, the small gangsters also took the seat. He was extremely dissatisfied with the Indian girl's public remarks at the press conference and broke with the Indian girl. The Indian girl realized that it was not the result she wanted, so she resigned from the police station and returned to the countryside to sell souvenirs with her parents. The story did not end this way. The turning point came unexpectedly. She discovered by accident that the aggressive social Darwin gene was caused by eating a roadside Chinese herbal medicine called psychedelic mushroom. She hurried back to the city to Xiang Xiao The gangsters confessed their mistakes, and the two went back on the road, following the vines, and found an underground laboratory that purifies psychedelic mushrooms to make drugs, and finally discovered that all this turned out to be the conspiracy of the female vice president! After chasing and fighting wits and wits, the African-American female vice president was finally brought to justice, and the little Indian girl became an upright FBI. As for the punks, because she assisted in the investigation of the Indian girl, through her relationship, she was also promoted to an FBI and became a colleague of the Indian girl. Of course, in the end they also gained love naturally. Then the name of the film was called "Utopia". This is the story told in "Beast Topia". It borrows animation, exaggeration and concrete forms to mimic an entire American society in a wonderful, detailed and kaleidoscope manner. Meetings—perhaps all aspects of a free (democratic) society under universal values. It imitates ethnic discrimination, imitating bureaucracy, imitating urban-rural differences, imitating class mobility, imitating underground gangs, imitating fraud, imitating drug trade, imitating physical anthropology, imitating obesity, imitating snail dwelling , Imitating mobile games, imitating international superstars, imitating guns and roses, imitating political correctness, imitating city divisions, imitating the nagging of housewives, and even imitating the imitating ("Godfather" A whole paragraph of parody and the parody of "A Wonderful Night in the Museum"), besides parody, it is parody. Regrettably, except for parody, it does not achieve any value of criticism or transcendence on the core of the original story. In the end, when everything returned to calm, all the smart little ironies before were tenderly contained in the lofty ideal of an egalitarian beast (utopia). In order to maintain this beast topia operated by universal values, there is Why can't you tolerate these small flaws in society? In other words, these small flaws, such as bureaucracy, fraud, panoramic surveillance, and nepotism, aren't they what makes this society diverse and lovable? Just like the rabbit said: "The room is small and old, the walls are greasy, and the neighbors are too noisy, but I love it!" The sun rose as usual. Most of the praise comes from the precise and novel form of parody of the story. Comparing people to animals is an allegorical trick since "Aesop's Fables". Yes, trick. Many times people just simply enjoy the tricks, such as ventriloquism, monkey play, such as shadow puppetry. Juggling can be regarded as a good way to convey enlightenment, but it is not enlightenment itself. What I admire the most about Zootopia is its superb representational power, which brilliantly translates social differences into animal talent differences. It is the most unbridgeable pair of core differences in animal topias, the difference between large animals and small animals, and the difference between "big" and "small". This difference is the most intuitive representation of the balance of power. What's even better is that it was given first, reflecting the collection of all invisible differences in human society, the differences in capital, wealth, intelligence, and physical appearance— -All differences in social inheritance (family and inheritance) and all biological inheritance (looks and genetic diseases). Only does not reflect racial differences. Racial differences were singled out and became the core contradiction of the film-the difference between "carnivore" and "herbivore". The difference between "carnivores" and "herbivores", like the "politically correct" statement in reality, proved to be a false proposition, which was artificially fabricated and framed and thus resolved. But at the end of the film, the difference between "big" and "small" is still not a trace. Traces of settlement-this is the normal state of beast topia! And its reason is the most irrefutable: animals are born to be like this! We saw that the train to Beast Topia "designed close to the body" for each animal of different size to show the equality of beasts and beasts, but after thinking about it, small animals can also go out of the door of large animals. What's the point? A cent loss? We accept this little irony. But have we still noticed that the conference room of the police station and the lecture platform of the press conference are still prepared for big animals from beginning to end. At the end of the film, the rabbit and the fox still have to climb up the chairs, stand at the table, huddled together, smiling warmly and expectantly, waiting for the sheriff to arrange the task. All the criticism was dispelled in this heart-warming smile. If the screenwriters are not aware of this problem, then they cannot write such a construction and details. The film’s depiction of the real social discrimination behind "big" and "small" can even be said to be very explicit. "Small" is naturally suitable for being a liar (fox's partner-that is what animal-can be disguised as a fox) Son cheating), “little” is even more blessed to be a thief (I don’t know which animal steals the “onion” because it’s small and it’s easier to escape hunting), and even “little” has the yearning to become “big” (the fox says “ My son dreamed of becoming an elephant," and the rabbit was moved by this); accordingly, there is no such substantial mapping between "carnivores" and "herbivores". We can even find the extreme correspondence between "carnivorous-grass" and "big-small" in the grand narrative of human civilization. The ideal type of "carnivorous-grass-eating" racism is the Nazism and anti-Semitism movement of the German Third Reich. It has been proved to be delirium, can be demonized wantonly, and can be used as any film and television work under "political correctness" Convenient motif. But the "big-small" ideological ideal type does not have an exact name so far, but it does exist, it started in the United States, it is the history of "The Godfather", it is the second immigration to the United States The ideological fortress of Chao Chao is the ideological foundation under the meticulous intelligence test and physical examination. If anyone has seen a movie called "Golden Gate", they will know that it is the whole motif of "Golden Gate". The parody of the "godfather" in the film, "coincidentally" is also "little". But is it really that coincidence? Are these screenwriters aware of it? Or is it just their unconscious creation? I think they are aware of it, but maybe (some people) have selectively ignored it, or (after compromise) agreed with such a difference, or they still adhere to the deepest social discrimination in their bones. The Sun Also Rises. When we are fascinated by Zootopia's outstanding When playing tricks, why don't we think about what kind of enlightenment it (in such a fable-like form) conveys? What expectation did he satisfy us? Why even with so much irony, so many people still agree with the final ending? The small part is also the deepest praise, which comes from the deep recognition of the value form of the two characters, the rabbit and the fox, that is, the recognition of the individualism, freedom, and formal equality represented by personal struggle and personal success. Must be more explicit, this is a story about the success of individualism belonging to the (emerging) middle class. This rabbit is also a rabbit pursuing worldly success and personal dreams (estimated to be a Republican rabbit)! Not a communist rabbit who pursues fairness, justice and social ideals! In order to make her boss worthy of being promoted, she tried her best to issue 200 tickets for half a day, even if someone’s car was only overdue for 5 seconds; she would still say "complaint please go to the Transportation Bureau", she herself is a bureaucratic machine. Part of it (it's just that she later let her become someone else and experienced the "super bureaucracy" of a sloth). There is also no evidence that she wants to be a "real" policeman because of her philosophy of seeking social justice or the value of maintaining democracy and freedom. The syllogism given in the film is: she likes to try (adventure), she firmly believes in the "theatre ideology" about equal republic (the words in the broken theater at the beginning, the opening theater is also worth reading), so she Want to prove that a rabbit can also be a policeman. The ideology of this rabbit belongs to us (we refer to the same age as me, people who know me will know) the "unfinished middle class". The rabbit's experience restores the struggle of an ideal middle class. history. I have a dream since I was young, believe that God rewards hard work and have been working hard. From a small place to a big city, I found an ideal job. I worked hard enough to abide by the social reality of the game and climb up. One day I caught a dramatic beautification. From then on, he jumped onto the branches to become a phoenix. And another character, the fox, satisfies the imagination of another part of the audience. They are not the mainstream middle class. They may be in the next level of petty citizens, but they are clever, capable, flexible, easy to do, and have a good luck. Finally, they met with great luck and met the right people at the right time. For the right thing, the upward flow is also completed. Yes, they all completed social mobility in the end. In Beasttopia, mainstream groups and subgroups ultimately identify with the same ascending channel. Even if it was a fox, he did not choose to go his own way and wander around the world in the end. Instead, he gratefully accepted the police entry application form handed by the rabbit. The film did not give any other recognition The same possibility, even the possibility of "The Godfather" in the film "Salute", "The Godfather" is just placed there to be parodyed and assimilated into a unified identity. Because the rabbit is going to be the godmother of the godfather and granddaughter. There is a postmodern epilogue at the end of the film. All characters, no matter the good, the evil, the big, the small, the mainstream, the non-mainstream, are all placed on the same stage in a concert on the theme of peace and fraternity, and the diversity of value disappears in splendor. Under the spotlight, sexy buttocks, sturdy body, and the whole city’s TV broadcast, they were squeezed into toffee, leaving us with a vast empty space of value. The postmodern position can be critical or non-critical. Whatever we fill in, it is what it is. If "Beast Topia" is regarded as a symbol of irony, then the whole film may be regarded as a whole irony, including its postmodern happy ending. But this kind of "irony" is almost ineffective, because it is not projected in the film, and our central character loves and does not criticize the beasttopia from beginning to end. It's like "1984" changed a name like "Brave New World". Such a trick is smart for those who have read the text. From the projection of the rabbit to the title, we can only draw this conclusion: "The room is small and old, the walls are greasy, and the neighbors are noisy, but I love it! This is utopia!" I want to be special. To mention a joint with weak plot logic may be justified in the context of Western audiences, but if it is accepted without question in front of the Chinese screen, it may be dangerous. Rabbit finally successfully notified the police department to bring the conspiracy deputy mayor to justice. The question immediately jumped out: Wouldn't the government and the police collude in advance? Why can the police station be completely neutral? If you have to find a realistic reference to summarize the film, then this film will not be the Civil War, it is only a Watergate incident at best. It is not a freedom war about universal values, it is just a political scandal. It thwarted political scandals, elected a new president, defended democracy, and was proud of it. This is utopia. , What is left to us is a vast empty area of ​​value. The postmodern position can be critical or non-critical. Whatever we fill in, it is what it is. If "Beast Topia" is regarded as a symbol of irony, then the whole film may be regarded as a whole irony, including its postmodern happy ending. But this kind of "irony" is almost ineffective, because it is not projected in the film, and our central character loves and does not criticize the beasttopia from beginning to end. It's like "1984" changed a name like "Brave New World". Such a trick is smart for those who have read the text. From the projection of the rabbit to the title, we can only draw this conclusion: "The room is small and old, the walls are greasy, and the neighbors are noisy, but I love it! This is utopia!" I want to be special. To mention a joint with weak plot logic may be justified in the context of Western audiences, but if it is accepted without question in front of the Chinese screen, it may be dangerous. Rabbit finally successfully notified the police department to bring the conspiracy deputy mayor to justice. The question immediately jumped out: Wouldn't the government and the police collude in advance? Why can the police station be completely neutral? If you have to find a realistic reference to summarize the film, then this film will not be the Civil War, it is only a Watergate incident at best. It is not a freedom war about universal values, it is just a political scandal. It thwarted political scandals, elected a new president, defended democracy, and was proud of it. This is utopia. , What is left to us is a vast empty area of ​​value. The postmodern position can be critical or non-critical. Whatever we fill in, it is what it is. If "Beast Topia" is regarded as a symbol of irony, then the whole film may be regarded as a whole irony, including its postmodern happy ending. But this kind of "irony" is almost ineffective, because it is not projected in the film, and our central character loves and does not criticize the beasttopia from beginning to end. It's like "1984" changed a name like "Brave New World". Such a trick is smart for those who have read the text. From the projection of the rabbit to the title, we can only draw this conclusion: "The room is small and old, the walls are greasy, and the neighbors are noisy, but I love it! This is utopia!" I want to be special. To mention a joint with weak plot logic may be justified in the context of Western audiences, but if it is accepted without question in front of the Chinese screen, it may be dangerous. Rabbit finally successfully notified the police department to bring the conspiracy deputy mayor to justice. The question immediately jumped out: Wouldn't the government and the police collude in advance? Why can the police station be completely neutral? If you have to find a realistic reference to summarize the film, then this film will not be the Civil War, it is only a Watergate incident at best. It is not a freedom war about universal values, it is just a political scandal. It thwarted political scandals, elected a new president, defended democracy, and was proud of it. This is utopia. The bureau will not collude in advance? Why can the police station be completely neutral? If you have to find a realistic reference to summarize the film, then this film will not be the Civil War, it is only a Watergate incident at best. It is not a freedom war about universal values, it is just a political scandal. It thwarted political scandals, elected a new president, defended democracy, and was proud of it. This is utopia. The bureau will not collude in advance? Why can the police station be completely neutral? If you have to find a realistic reference to summarize the film, then this film will not be the Civil War, it is only a Watergate incident at best. It is not a freedom war about universal values, it is just a political scandal. It thwarted political scandals, elected a new president, defended democracy, and was proud of it. This is utopia.

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Zootopia quotes

  • Nick Wilde: Everyone comes to Zootopia thinking they can be anything they want. Well, you can't. You can only be what you are. Sly fox. Dumb bunny.

    Judy Hopps: I am not a dumb bunny.

    Nick Wilde: Right. And that's not wet cement. You'll never be a real cop. You're a cute meter maid, though.

  • Judy Hopps: [in a limo with Nick, between two polar bear thugs, whispering] What did you do that made Mr. Big so mad at you?

    Nick Wilde: [nervously] I, um... I may have sold him a very expensive wool rug that was made from the fur of a skunk... 's butt.

    Judy Hopps: Oh, sweet cheese and crackers.