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I didn't take it to mean "prejudice is bad." It seemed pretty on the nose with don't judge based on appearances. Sheep looked innocence and easily manipulated: BOOM, bad guy. Lion was a mayor and seemed to be covering things up, BOOM in over his head and not sure how to handle it.
Massive outbreak of predator's going berserk? BOOM, they're innocent and the source is actually a network of sheep who wanted power by creating fear AND prejudicial bias.
The original film (using collars) was definitely talking more about prejudice and the assumption of a threat, but in a way, the assumption is justified. We don't, in the real world, have a real comparison. One might say "oh well, black people were thought to take and breed our white women" but this superstition has no actual basis in fact or evolutionary history. The world of zootopia has actual predators living with their actual prey. They still have enough physical characteristics that a prey's fear of a predator based almost entirely on appearance isn't super unfounded (My, what big teeth you have), so the argument that it is a direct comparison to anything doesn't quite work.
Skin color, which is the obvious comparison, is an evolutionary trait against sun protection (roughly, it's good enough. Just go with that), so any fear of someone based on skin color is a prejudicial bias that has no rational foundation. It's not like wolf teeth or lion's claws. These things should inspire fear, but not skin color.
Finally, recall Nick's flashback to being a kid. They *muzzled* him. Recall judy as a kid, a fox cut her with his claws. Clearly, these predatory advantages still exist, so the fear isn't irrational. But if muzzles exist, then there must be a group that handles the predators (and maybe the prey) who use their natural advantages (teeth, claws) to hurt others. Again, the fear isn't unfounded.
If anything, zootopia is not an allegory against why prejudice is bad. It's really a story that emphasizes the ideas that:
1. Not all predators are the same, OR sterotyping doesn't mean truth. This theme best fits your "allegory," as it extends to life thusly: not all black guys like basketball, not all Asians are good at math, not all white guys have power, not all Jews have money, not all Irish are drunks, etc.
2. Capability to cause harm is not the same as actually doing harm.
3. Fear, even fear based in reason, must not replace common decency and respect for others.
4. Judgement of another person's character cannot be based solely or largely on their appearance. This includes assumption that they are good OR bad (note, sheep looks good but is bad, lion looks like bad guy, is good yet misguided).
There are other themes, sure, but in terms of the movie's final result, these are the most prominent and make the fewest leaps in logic (imo). However, to say the movie is strictly about bias or that it's an allegory simply doesn't fit. The previous version (with the collars) may have hit that tone, but this movie doesn't. The fear of predators is 100% justified. Hell, even as a predator (remember the black panther driver), the fear of other predator's was justified. He got attacked by a nice, nerdy dude in a limo. He was freaking out over the incident and seemed to have shut himself inside.
So, yeah, the movie may hint at it, but in no way is that the theme of the WHOLE movie, so it is NOT an allegory, at all.
On topic, man is Finnick cute here. The little guy crying is so sad, clearly upset that he likes (liked?, was asked to?) wear that nurse's outfit. Wonder where it's gonna go.
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