Here is a fun, cute and relevant disney movie drawing parallels between the prejudice and racial tensions existing in society today.
The movie stars an ambitious young rabbit, Judy Hopper, whose dream is to be a cop -- a non-traditional career bath for "cute little rabbits", and make a difference in zootopia, a metropolitan city where all animals of all shapes and sizes dwell together.
Little as Judy expects, Zootopia isn't perfect, and she has to deal with biases on all corners, from her assignment to be on ticket maid when there is a top case she could handle, to even her own biases when she leans on a fox Nick (who is stereotyped as "sly" and "untrustworthy") to help her solve a case.
Here is a great story about how it feels to be an underdog, and also stereotyped based on societal prejudices. In the movie, the big divide is between predators who are "biologically tuned to be savage" and prey who "can never go savage". Both comments are based on societal decisions with no backed basis, and yet their analogies to the workings of racial division in our society cannot be ignored.
Here is a wonderful movie, and highly deserving of its academy award win! I would highly recommend it to everybody!
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